Tuesday, December 9, 2008

the post i dont exactly understand

Sometimes, it's fun to do something wrong. No, no. It's fun to do what others perceive as wrong. Maybe it's the adrenalin rush. Maybe it's boredom. Maybe there isn't any reason for it at all. There are times when you do things without thinking of the consequences. It's not that you don't care. It's not that you're being selfish. To be selfish, you need to be consicously aware of the consequences and actively choose not to keep them in consideration. What if it simply doesn't occur to you that what you're doing has consequences. The lack of consideration becomes passive. Not to the point that it becomes ignorance, though. What if this state of oblivion becomes extended?

I'm not sure how to rationalise such actions. I'm thinking that maybe you're in this state of 'perpetual drunkenness' - not to be taken literally of course. I'm still wondering how one arrives at this point of 'perpetual drunkenness' and when this state of mind ceases. Like literal drunkenness, figurative drunkenness creeps into our minds insidiously. And it is only in retrospect that we know that we exercised a lack of judgment.

Everything becomes permissible when you become desensitized.

I'm desensitized.
But no, I'm not desensitized.

And therein lies the crux of the problem(s).