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Unlaced, Undone
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Undo Does Not Turn Back Time, Undo Is Not Real

To have undone something in practical terms is to have done a new thing to something that you just did, it is not to have reverted back to the original state. But do you think that when you press CTRL-Z? Is it possible to have reverted back to where you started, now that you know better? Further, how is our habitual 'undoing' on the computer being translated to our real-world lives? Do we always get a second chance? How seriously are we taking our first chances?

Monkey Business

The thoughts on relationships again, how people treat each other and more specifically, how people treat me. I have growing realisation of being taken for granted, taken for exploitation - used. Am I seen as a well-trained monkey or do I have my own thoughts? If I'm supposed to be smart, am I smart enough to know what to do when I recognise this? Do I respect myself enough not to become a monkey?

It's not even that I feel used, it's that I feel used in a bad way. They are manipulating, but not manipulating all the way - using me and letting me know I am used. If they'd even uttered 'please' or 'thanks', I would have missed the signs, I would still be ignorantly happy.

Thoughts have come across my mind lately, as to what I would think or feel if tomorrow was my last day. What would I say to people? If you knew tomorrow was your last day or perhaps tomorrow is another day, but will be someone-you-know's last day, how would you treat them?

"If I flee from greenest pastures
Would you leave to look for me?" - Hymn, Brooke Fraser

"If I had no more time, No more time left to be here Would you cherish what we have, Am I everything that you are looking for?" - Like You'll Never See Me Again, Alicia Keys

I've also been thinking about the mistakes I've made in the past, the times when I have unknowingly mistreated people and I am thinking about ways to make it up to them. Perhaps now I can offer myself as a way of saying sorry. I don't even know if they would have noticed - so is apologising a selfish thing or not? How many ways can I think of to tell/show someone I care about them? Do I know the "value of now before it has gone forever?" (Virgil).

February 16, 2008 | 3:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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