Hayate no Gotoku- The Combat Butler
The anime series titled as above is an ultimate parody anime. It's parodying just about everything. Everything. Everything.
Haha yeah you'd think that about the IGallop huh? There's all kinds of positions like lifting yourself one-armed from the 'reins' and bending under it etc..
We act like different people when we're with our different groups of friends.. True? You might be boisterous and light-hearted with one bunch, and quiet, serene with another group. Is it duplicitous? No, but I think I used to believe that to an extent. At least I thought that it was simply a case of different people bringing out different things within us. Looking at myself and my long-time friends over the past few years, I now feel that it is because we ourselves are changing, moulting with each passing year and environment and friendship, for the most part becoming a more understanding, patient, kinder and mature person.
And our patterns of friendship also change, we shed our old skins and find our new selves interacting with new acquaintances in a different way, perhaps according to how life has treated us during that transition from old self to new self. For some, having spent time with good people make it easier for them to believe in others. Then there are those who are thrown into an environment so stifling that cynicism becomes comforting to embrace...
Still, in the face of all these changes I think that we continue the act the same way with our old friends, holding on the same comfortable and 'recognizable from a distance' patterns that we'd built a friendship over. -That is nostalgia, and occasionally regret, according to how constructive or how destructive those old patterns are.
My experience so far has been a humbling and a bolstering one. I've met a whole host of new friends in my unit but this time round, I don't feel crippled by inferiority or heady with superiority. I can talk and laugh with them all the time about a whole range of topics, but that has as much to do with me being able to do so as much as it does with them being accepting and friendly. I see bad things and good things about them, but I am neither subordinate nor superior to any. Maybe I used to think that I could understand a lot of things better than others, but now there's thinking that I can't begin to comprehend, humility I can't even nearly approach, openness that I aspire to but can't quite reach yet.
For those friends who are now in places that make it harder to believe in others, I hope you'll soon find people that you'll enjoy working with and can believe in. If nothing else, there are always the old friends and the old patterns to fall back on and spring forward from.
And for those, whom my old patterns are not so complimentary too... Forgive me if I have failed to see that you've changed for the better, and myself for not changing enough =)
-I really wish I'd payed more attention during sunday school -_-
Songs to get:
-The World Ain't Slowing Down by Ellis Paul
- All the songs on Jian Yue's mp3
- Grace Kelly
-Chinese music Cds from Yicheng
Haha yeah you'd think that about the IGallop huh? There's all kinds of positions like lifting yourself one-armed from the 'reins' and bending under it etc..
We act like different people when we're with our different groups of friends.. True? You might be boisterous and light-hearted with one bunch, and quiet, serene with another group. Is it duplicitous? No, but I think I used to believe that to an extent. At least I thought that it was simply a case of different people bringing out different things within us. Looking at myself and my long-time friends over the past few years, I now feel that it is because we ourselves are changing, moulting with each passing year and environment and friendship, for the most part becoming a more understanding, patient, kinder and mature person.
And our patterns of friendship also change, we shed our old skins and find our new selves interacting with new acquaintances in a different way, perhaps according to how life has treated us during that transition from old self to new self. For some, having spent time with good people make it easier for them to believe in others. Then there are those who are thrown into an environment so stifling that cynicism becomes comforting to embrace...
Still, in the face of all these changes I think that we continue the act the same way with our old friends, holding on the same comfortable and 'recognizable from a distance' patterns that we'd built a friendship over. -That is nostalgia, and occasionally regret, according to how constructive or how destructive those old patterns are.
My experience so far has been a humbling and a bolstering one. I've met a whole host of new friends in my unit but this time round, I don't feel crippled by inferiority or heady with superiority. I can talk and laugh with them all the time about a whole range of topics, but that has as much to do with me being able to do so as much as it does with them being accepting and friendly. I see bad things and good things about them, but I am neither subordinate nor superior to any. Maybe I used to think that I could understand a lot of things better than others, but now there's thinking that I can't begin to comprehend, humility I can't even nearly approach, openness that I aspire to but can't quite reach yet.
For those friends who are now in places that make it harder to believe in others, I hope you'll soon find people that you'll enjoy working with and can believe in. If nothing else, there are always the old friends and the old patterns to fall back on and spring forward from.
And for those, whom my old patterns are not so complimentary too... Forgive me if I have failed to see that you've changed for the better, and myself for not changing enough =)
-I really wish I'd payed more attention during sunday school -_-
Songs to get:
-The World Ain't Slowing Down by Ellis Paul
- All the songs on Jian Yue's mp3
- Grace Kelly
-Chinese music Cds from Yicheng
posted by moet at 3:32 AM
1 Comments:
we all have our strengths and our weaknesses, i guess humility is accepting that you cant do everything and he cant be expected to do everything.Friendship is all about knowing that they're beside you, not ahead or behind u, but walking beside u.(healing u and shielding u too, thx bro)
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