quote for the day


"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself"

        -Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter

heroes and villains

movies have always portrayed villains as scary looking, the ones who look evil, the ones who always wear black. only recenytly have villains been played by goodlooking people. even then, there's still that foreboding aura about them associating them as being villains.

villains are never like that in real life, which i believe is best explain by the age-old adage "wolf in sheeps clothing"

these days, real-life villains are the ones who project the most innocent roles in life. they play as if they don't know anything and have not done anything when, in fact, they could already write about a book on what they profess to not know or not do. these days, the better-looking real-life villains are the ones who are creating the most trouble in this world. imaging getting held up by a guy who looks like a company executive...scary, isn't it? makes you want to run away from all the yuppies in makati and ortigas.

in the same light, people who are perceived as villains are the good guys. people who are boisterous, people who genuinely have fun, people who are seen without a care in the worl... these are people who are like that because they're not afraid to hide anything. their lives are genuinely lived. should they have done something wrong, they're not afraid to admit it. they're not afraid to tell the world that they're human and they've made mistakes.

in the end, they're the ones you can count on most of the time.

*sigh* life can be cruel at times... but the cruelty of life is made up for when the time for justification arrives. we never know the answers now, but we'll find out the answers... someday.