Nepotism

How does one deal with an advocate and practioner of nepotism. That is a question I struggle to answer today, one could argue that one must take the hit road be the bigger man so on and so forth. But what happens when the cost of the decision that favours nepotism, when people lose out on opportunities because someone wants to favour the nepotist.  I've had my fair share of interactions with nepotists and my understanding of their psyche and reason for continuing with this disgusting and rather archaic habit is that they simply do not think that they're in the wrong. If a lie has been told a thousand times it doesn't become the truth using the same logic practising a wrong path for a thousand years doesn't make it right. The victims per se of nepotists suffer a loss of confidence and rather wonder why the world propagated idiocy as such. 

Preservation

I learnt a lesson in self-preservation today. No matter who you claim to be, when it comes down to it you'll throw anyone under the bus. You will cause pain to others around you, you shall purloin their peace and send most of them to a suadade. This is your nature, it is my nature it lies dormant in all of us for some it comes easily for others a tad bit of coaxing is involved. How do I know this you ask? IT'S BASIC HUMAN NATURE. It saddens this one that this is the norm for a lot of you out there, and then one see that hardening oneself and building those walls that arent scaleable and cannot be breached was the righ path to take. How easily we throw our fellow man into the lurch, and while he falls into tha bottomless abyss he muses "what did I do to deserve this?" I say to that man " You did nothing old sport, you just happened to witness the decay that is a human being and for that I am truly sorry". 

Magnitude

I found myself gazing at the night skies but a few moments before I decided to write this, what I understood in those few pristine minutes I fear has changed me in a way I cannot fully fathom.  I looked up at the black enveloping mass, I just gazed and then I began to appreciate the beauty of it all and at the same time, I was humbled by what I saw, what I was learning. How does mankind even dare to think that we can fathom what cannot we fathom, we constrict the universe to our laws and pretend that chaos can be tamed and that in some way we are special and the masters of all we lay our sight upon. What arrogance, what arrogance from a beast with a slightly higher cranial capacity than a chimpanzee. We think ourselves, masters of the universe, we aren't even fit to grace her presence. As I gazed longer I wanted to remove her garment of stars and the heavens and learn her secrets, we live under her mercy in the warmth and comfort of her bosom. And yet we cannot appreciate what we see, we have this unwarranted need to control and conquer. To what end? What is the end result, what do we hope to gain from all of this? I found myself overwhelmed with emotion. A man who doesn't know what to feel anymore, and this fact scares me......