Tuesday, May 4, 2010

we should all come with labels on...

As per usual I was thinking (yes it does happen on occasion) and well wouldn't the world be a better place if we all had the appropriate labels attached to our ikkle booties when we're born? I'm not talking about the obvious "boy" or "girl" although some parents would have been saved a lot of stress if they saw a "girl" label on the bouncing (yet soon to be flaming) baby boy.

What I'm on about is the fact that we all never really know anyone...not even our brothers or sisters who tormented us our entire lives. But this wouldn't be the case if when you were three you saw amongst you brothers baby pics a label which read; "caution: this child will allways believe he's right. He should be kept away from open flames and will be prone to throwing sharp objects to see who's stupid enough to catch them. Be warned, if not a last child, others will be locked in cupboards and fed sand"

Ok I know a lot of you are wondering which one of my brothers I'm talking about here....I mixed a bunch of stuff up so stop.
With that said, just think about how easy meeting girls would be? "Caution: not good with alcohol, will cheat on first few boyfriends, is great with her hands, never leave alone in crowded places". That would just be awesome (not for her first few victims of course but by now you should be on the same page as me...or at least the same chapter.

This little rant came to me the other day when I was reading the cautions on a drug I got. It was kinda worrying, as I got this drug to help me feel better and here was a lovely list of things that "could" go wrong. So in my head I was reading "this drug is good but you've heard of russian roulette right?...well those are the kind of odds you've got here...you either get better or have blurred vision and maybe lose you sight all together, but hey, you were warned right?" Yeah now I really feel like taking it.

So that's what usually happens with people too, you hear rave reviews about how funny they are or how beautiful but like I said...there's no frickin caution label on. No, "he has really, really bad breath, but is sure to make you laught" or no "she is gorgeous but wait till she smiles and you see the jaggered rocks hidden within oh and just so you know, she thinks tylanol is the panadol they use in thiahand"

But I guess suck is life, we make choices and in turn have to live with them, its just like this poster I saw "they say life is short so live every day to the fullest...you may get hit by a bus tomorrow" and yeah we've all heard that but then it goes on to say "that's bulshit, life is preety damn long and the chances of you being hit by a bus are slim, so just remember, those choices you make, you're gona have to live with them for a long ass time" and its true. Remember when you were 6? Exactly...that was a frickin long time ago...and we're spose to live till we're 70...you do the math.

All I'm saying is if we came with labels a lot of the guess work would be done for us. But then I'm just ranting as I sit in this lobby waiting for a meeting so take what you will.

Later.

3 comments:

Xandra Patrick said...

ok...hilarious
but if u think about it, the label thingy kinda makes life boring...
i love that i have (scary)stories to tell my friends when i meet a new guy or stuff like that...if everyone had labels we won't bother about alot of things..like talking to a guy over the phone for a whole year, finally meeting the guy and...don't even ask, it happened to me..i was so disgusted with myself cos he had the sexiest voice ever!

Jite Ovueraye said...

Ah but you see...even if we had labels on, you wouldn't have seen it through the fone...but when you eventually did meet him you would have seen in bright red marker "really like Xorra, hope she don't think I'm and ugly mofo"....
but yes...you do have a point about the stories we would have missed out on

Anonymous said...

I love the perspective u took on life here. Though lighthearted and witty its still sends out a message. At the end of the day I guess its the excitement that comes with discovering and the sastisfaction that you get after realising you made the right choice, though blindly, that keeps life so amazingly interesting! Better than any blocbuster or telly novella! Yeah we get it wrong sometimes but that's what keeps the whole thing interesting and helps us appreciate even more wen everything falls into place. Nice one jite;) odii.