Sunday, February 04, 2007
well, it was a rather sad week at work... Sigh! My bosses were driven out of the office, followed shortly by our Ate, Karen who resigned, and now it's just hard to bring back the happy and fun mode in the workplace. It's not much fun to eat lunch, now that there's only three of us. I miss the gang of high-spirited, smart and bubbly individuals who welcomed me with open arms and made me feel really good about working here. Okay, and so I seem like an exclusive person, but they are the first officemates I had that I considered family. Oh well, I haven't really put much time in knowing how they're doing, maybe because I'm still in denial. Still won't accept the fact that they won't be setting foot in our office ever again.
And so, yeah... in times like these, you just can't help but think that life's unfair. That you have no control whatsoever of what is happening around you. And now, we're in limbo. And with everything that's happening, I still had the energy to read a book and came across a hilarious one. So now I share with you witty, cynical quotes from
The Portable Curmudgeon, compiled and edited by Jon Winokur...
LifeThe first half of our life is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children.- Clarence Darrow
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.- Oscar Wilde
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.- Bertrand Russell
Cynic/CynicismA cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.- Sidney Harris
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.- George Bernard Shaw
LoveLove is the triumph of imaginations over intelligence.- H.L. Mencken
ManPerhaps the only true dignity of a man is his capacity to despise himself.- George Santayana
MarriageMarriage: a souvenir of love.- Helen Rowland
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real and the ideal never goes unpunished.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
MartyrdomIt is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.- John Barth
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.- Oscar Wilde
MissionaryMissionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.- Oscar Wilde
Missionaries, my dear! Don't you realize that missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals? Whenever they are on the brink of starvation, Heaven in its infinite mercy sends them a nice plump missionary.- Oscar Wilde
OKI'm not ok, you're not ok, and that's ok.- William Sloane Coffin
OptimismOptimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.- Voltaire
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.- Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.- Don Marquis
I just love Oscar Wilde! I've never been the literary kind of fool, but his quotes are totally uproarious. I ought to start reading about him one of these days...
It's always easier to be cynical and blame everything and what's happening to the world, but hey, one should always try to face the world with optimism. In my opinion, those who are cynical are usually the cowards. They are weak, they choose to give up and just say that everythings ruined, life's unfair and things are probably gonna get worse. But optimists are brave people, ready to face the challenges of life, knowing that there's always a rainbow after the storm. And what is this victory that I'm talking about? Maybe its the thought that they just stay long enough to finish the fight. Or, well, trying not to be too mean, have I mistaken cynicism with pessimism? Or, am I really being an optimist, or I'm just still in denial. I mean, things can't get any worse than this. Something good has got to happen, right? Camille ends up contradicting herself again. But don't mistake my cheery mode as one that's celebratory. I am sad. For what's happened. But you can't let life end there. You can't just accept that you lost, sulk in a corner and allow life to take it's toll on you, bad. You gotta fight it, that's what they always say.Well, just look out world, I know its been so cold and windy lately, but hey, the sun's still shining! Brighter days will surely come our way! :))
another adventure for COSMOGIRL!
