bricks and candy

Where should I start? Hmmm…

Let’s say you’re building a mansion, or a house for instance, and with your very splendid IQ, now you’re trying to relate what I’ve just mentioned with the title of the post. What is the relation between a house and bricks?

Of course! Bricks are the building blocks of a house, or in other words, they are the very foundation and essential in order to build a strong and safe house, fitting its purpose. No, I’m not teaching you how to build a house today because I am no architect and I don’t have any knowledge about building a house. However, I do want to ramble about building a spiritual house – a moment when you feel safe and cozy, as if you’re at home. Very closely related to what I’m about to mention is family but due to your very intelligent mind which could co-relates everything, I’ll just omit the family part because just by the presence of family members (in most cases), you’ll feel comfortable in such a way that you’re blood related and somehow had developed mutual understandings ever since you were born or little.

So now let’s move on to the other part of the title, which is candy. And again your brain would automatically think of the taste – sweet whenever you see or hear the word candy. Let’s just stick to that. Now, close your eyes and try to imagine something else, which isn’t edible but taste as sweet as a candy could be. I’ll just leave that to your imagination. While most people would be having a hard time thinking, what people do not realise is that what you taste with your taste buds are not really that important. It is what you taste with your heart is more crucial. So again, I’ll let you think for awhile, what might be sweet to your heart? Love perhaps? Sure anything else? Just keep on thinking while reading the rest of the post.

Some of you might just be curious what really happened to me, from ramblings and rants, all of the sudden my writing has changed to something a lil bit more intellectual. No don’t worry, nothing happened – it is just that some events that occurred around me lately triggers me to write something about it.

Back to the topic, let’s play a game! I’ve shown you two pictures above, a picture of bricks and the other one is  a picture of some candy canes. Using  your creative mind, try to think of something that has both element, a building block of something safe and strong, yet it tastes sweet to the heart. Could it be a house made of candies? Or could it be a candy cane shaped ornament made of bricks? Sure! It could be anything, just let your imagination soar. However for me, the answer is YOU! Yeah, a human being, a person, or a group of people – depending on the situation. Wanna know why? Just keep on reading and you;ll gradually understand.

Since I’ve mentioned to you about human, let’s now move on to this particular topic. What is the most important thing that appears in your mind when I say two human beings, facing each other, or anyway you like to imagine it – as long as it involves 2 person. If I were you my answer would be communication. Oh wait… It seems that this blog post is starting to sound like one of my lectures in the faculty… Darn it! Haha, who cares anyway~ a very common method of communicating, I believe is through speech, or talk, or some people call it conversation. In order to create a conversation, there must be something to talk about. Like this post, there must be a topic to discuss.

Ahhh, this is getting stupid… I’ll just go straight to the point (which could’ve been done 500 words earlier), I wanna talk or discuss about friendship. Before discussing the details of it, I would love to ask, how’s your friends? Do you know what are they doing now? Do you even care what they are doing? Are you even concern of what might be happening to them, or what stuck into their minds right now? How dare you call yourself a friend?

How do people start becoming friends? A conversation is a decent way to start making friends, I mean, I’m sure you would want to know the background of a person that you’re talking to. Let’s say you’re talking to a friend. What would the topic be? Usually it would be something in common between that 2 people, a topic of interest. If your topic of interest towards someone is strictly placed, what I mean is that for example, whenever you talk with Benny, it would be about studies and whenever you have financial problems, you would talk with Jimmy, well you can make up the rest, I’m pretty sure you get what I’m trying to deliver. For some people, they are saying that topic of interest held the connection between two person, but would that connection be friendship? So what is friendship?

Theres a lot more quotes from that twitter user, you can check it out by yourself later, so summing that thing up, it would roughly be like, friendship is the connection between people which develops mutual understanding, comforting his or her friend when in need, and provide aid or guide to his or her problems.

So how would it be possible, for people who had developed mutual understanding, almost be apart of each other, be in a conflict? Common among kids, they would usually say “sik mok geng gik” or something like that if they feel threatened if I may say. Maybe because we’re sooo used to it, we’re starting to let it rule over us. Let petty things sinks the ship.

Honestly, I have no idea what am I saying… Nevertheless, here’s a note to myself and friends, be concern about your friends, really know your friends before calling them your friends, be apart of each other, no one is really perfect, your friends are the complements of your life, share – may it be food, experience, laugher, or tears; prevent them from doing stupid things, remind them of how precious they are to you. Your friends might not be the best of his/her kind, but remember you can always improve that, lay low, speak up and the most important thing is, be yourself.

You know yourself more than I do, if you don’t think that I’m a friend then let me know, at least I can find another, might not be a good as you but at least I can find someone who understands.

Good times : watching movies together, eat together, laugh together, play together.
Bad times: I don’t give a shit if you’re sick or dying.

Towards the end, it is getting really personal. My bad. Haha!