The Gods Must Be Crazy

While observing how my co-masterands were banging their heads and raising their voices with our professor to resolve a theorem in our Modern Geometry class, I just sit quietly, half-smiling, half-thinking ... simply asking myself, "What  are they trying to prove when the proof is already obvious ... why complicate simple things?" Then I thought, they must me crazy then. Aren't they aware that life is so simple that it doesn't need any postulates or theorems to support it's existence?

I would not be pursuing my masters degree had it not been necessary in my chosen career. A masters degree is one of the pebbles that I should have while I chose to be in the academe -- though, for me, it doesn't make any difference ... it doesn't give me any assurance of enjoying life as intended.

I know life is just simple ... with simple needs and simple source of joys, we would have been truly happy. But we foolishly made life complicated. Thanks to us!

We, most of the time, live as if we are gods. We always even wanted to play God. We invent things to make life simpler and easier, without knowing that we are just slaving ourselves by paying all the bills just to keep these things moving. We explored the outer space only to awaken our greed of power -- our greed for more territory ... for a bigger playing field. We study more in search for knowledge, only to find out that we're still ignorant. We wanted to please all, just to please ourselves.

We are always busy preparing for the future by outliving today. We have done almost everything, not knowing that we haven't made anything done. Aren't we crazy?

With all the things we have, can we now consider ourselves living a life? Aren't we just making a life out of our living?

If we truly are gods, we must be intelligent and wise enough to simplify complicated things rather than complicate simple ones.

Or -- are we just simply proving that we're "crazy gods"?

(12.07.2003)