“4 more books to being a SOCIAL OUTCAST!”…
just when you thought you were going to enjoy another wonderful semester, you suddenly get bogged down with assignments/ reviews/ tough lectures/ even tougher lecturers!..etc. then all the fun gets sucked away and you find yourself in vacumn. while floating around you bump into various objects and bruise yourself silly. then you realize ‘hey! maybe I should actually open my eyes instead of wandering around blind’.
but that really is the FUN of it all. think about it, without all those horrible things in life what would you bitch about when you’re with your friends? if everything was nice and dandy, life wouldn’t have that ‘zing’ now would it? imagine all your enemies drowned in Niagara or disappeared of the radar in Bermuda, then all you’re left is to start making enemies with the friends you have now! you may think it’s corny or stupid but hey…haven’t you EVER wondered…even ONCE?!
so you lie in bed and unwind….then check up that calender of yours. see? your assignments are DUE like anytime now! so what ARE you gonna do? that’s right…navigate the library for every reference you can find. then when you think you’ve got enough books to carry, take them to the front desk. of course your next problem will then be making sense of the (god-damn) assignment question. asking the lecturer might help you…or NOT! now that you’ve gathered a mountain of un-discovered knowledge, it’s now up to you to try and digest enough of it to start your assignments. but the catch is this: how much CAN your brain ‘eat’…..in SUCH a short span of time? do YOU have enough ‘drive-space’, coz you wouldn’t want to push 5Kb in to a 3 1/2 Kb drive….or would you DARE?!
so the lesson you learn is, try putting in little by little in frequent intervals. hence, you’ll be making a lot of trips to the library, to quench your thirst/ or non-thirst…..with all those books in your hand, how are you going to carry them out? ask a friend to help of course! but then your friend must also DESIRE INSANITY like you. so together you and your friend have achieved something strange (in the eyes of others) but yet there is a little satisfaction. there is an almost hidden, secret ‘yes!’ and ‘more, more..’ as you take those books out of the library. suddenly, KNOWLEDGE as it were has seduced you!
coming back to reality, the books are still there…on your table. they’re still staring at you as you lay in bed dreaming. they almost WANT you to touch them, to hold them close, feeling their smooth pages with your fingers…and your brain like a sponge sucks in every word from their paragraphs, inhaling themes, swallowing the letters one by one (each as if coated with cream/ sugar/ honey or syrup)…..so ponder if you will then, on such a day…when knowledge intices you so subtle that the silence is far from a shrill scream on a full-moon night…….
btw, if you’re wondering about the title….you might want to request the wisdom of Ann Lee….let her ENLIGHTEN you…..
