Call me narcissistic but I really love to see my name mentioned somewhere! Somehow sometimes I find that my efforts were not at all appreciated as much, when I really devoted all my time and energy into making things look nice and appealing.
Perhaps superficiality attracts most people. Truly enough, everyone looks at things from the surface first. They'll decide whether they should bother spending time looking at the same thing twice just judging by first appeal. So tell me, if that thing doesn't LOOK interesting, would you even be interested in the first place? Take looks for example. You'll see for yourself.
So we grow up being taught to judge a book by itz cover, then contents later. After being trained for so long we've mastered the skill of judging using the superficial criteria, that we go around doing the same to everybody, everything. Something happened lately which triggered me into wondering if superficial work really mean so much. Some people can easily be classified as a 'worthy friend', just because you thought you SAW that person doing something truly meaningful. But wait awhile, would you? Things may not seem like they are on the surface. If you would just explore deeper into it, don't be surprised if you are presented a very ugly truth, staring blatantly at your face.
Then you wonder maybe it's better if you had not seen deep enough right from the start. At least you live under the impression that everything's good and pretty. But really, is it the delusion you want? Or is it the truth that you truly want?
I'll choose the latter, though it might hurt a little. But at least, I'm not deluded.
