четверг, июня 29, 2006

Idle Thoughts

Did you know that old men with cowboy hats have an insatiable desire to comment on how large I am? Mostly it is a "no shit" sort of comment. The one where they look at me and say something to the effect of "Gee, you are tall!"

Here are some of the other things they have said:
"You are as big as a horse!"
"I bet you had a hard time at school. People like to pick on the big guy, because when a little guy starts something with the big guy he is a hero... but more often then not the big guy wins and nobody cares."
I have been called, "Mongo Jr."

And my favorite, "You don't look like a forklift, but you are definitely big enough!"

All of this has been consistently from older men (40-60 years old, rough estimate) wearing cowboy hats. It is significantly less likely that I will receive a comment about my size from someone who does not meet those two criteria.

I am currently taking suggestions on why this may be (please leave as comments, serious ideas need not apply). My best guess is that they are rodeo/ranch folk, so people my size are a valued commodity and they probably wish their sons were as big as I am.

I'm just glad there are people around to make sure I remember I'm big, because I can't remember things like that on my own.

What else...

Oh yea, one of my "deep" (lol) thoughts for the month has been, "if I had three wishes, what would I wish for." A long time ago in my high school creative writing class we had to write out what we would wish for and why. At the time I wrote that I would wish for a really good dog or a magic AK-47 that never ran out of bullets, things that are useful and hard/impossible to find.

I filled the rest of the page with a rant about people who wish for money, love, etc. (the usual wishes I knew the rest of my class would write about). Basically, I felt that if you had any sense you would (a) wish for the means to attain those things so if they ever ran out you have the ability to get more and (b) were cheating if you actually wished for that sort of thing.

I mean, really, money isn't worth half as much if you don't earn it. That doesn't mean I won't buy lotto tickets, but wish for something meaningful and you can get money through it. "I wish I was a great inventor," for example. At least then you are doing good for the world at the same time. This goes quadruple for the 'love' wishes, and many wish-based television shows have even acknowledged that wishing to force people to love you is just plain bullshit and is against the rules.

World Peace is a bullshit wish. Much of the progression of mankind will depend on how we work out this sort of thing, so wishing away such a huge problem like that is probably a bad idea in the long run. Also, war has its uses...

I still consider the immortality wish. I'm not sure if I would want it or not... But that is a discussion I don't feel like typing out now...

I've considered what I would want to wish for now, and haven't progressed much from when I was a teen.

1. I wish that I had a magical rifle that never ran out of bullets. (I no longer want an AK, but haven't thought up a new breed to replace it.)
2. I wish that I had a really good dog who would last as long as I do.

But here's the new one.

3. I wish that I will always have as much strength as I need.

This one is actually a magic power my brother gave to a character in one of his stories, and I thought it was a really cool idea. It's not, "I wish I were really strong," or even " I wish I was the strongest entity on earth." I would just have an inner reserve so there is always a little more.

Now you see why these two thoughts are connected.

Assuming you had to wish by the rules I laid out (things that were either normally impossible or extremely rare, none of that "Get Out of Effort Free!" cheating!) what would you wish for?

3 комментария:

Marvelous Ape комментирует...

This was a tough question and after some thinking here is what I came up with.

1. I wish that everyone that I care about leads a long,happy and fufilled life.

2. I wish I could let things go.

3. I wish I was a hero. I don't mean that I want super powers or anything(in fact I m probably the last person that should ever have super powers). What I mean is that I would like to be someone important in the lives of others, someone that a person or group of people would truly miss if they were gone and things just wouldnt be the same due to their absence. Someone who made a genuine impact and difference in the lives of those he cared about. Someome who people aspired to be like. Someone who never failed those he loved.

Dana комментирует...

1) I wish that Frank could be alive for as long as I was.

2) I wish I have time enough to read all the books I ever want to.

3) I wish I could figure out who I really am, cuz apparently, I'm not doing so hot on my own. :-)

evan комментирует...

As to the latter part of your post:

1. I wish I were always, no matter what, at the ideal weight for my height, sex, age, whatever.

2. I wish smoking did not cause cancer, but chewing tobacco still did. Take that, chaw, you are gross.

3. I wish I knew what to say/do to everyone I cared about (have to care about them for this to work) so that they would come to care for me precisely as much as I do for them.

As to the former part of your post. Have you ever seen Brokeback Mountain?