take advantage of it

while i'm not working just yet, i've been doing papers for other people. haha.. i miss school too much. tsk tsk tsk.

my friend insensiTEVES was asked to write a paragraph about a couple of different things. something like a blog entry type of reflection for english class (oh the internet age. everything's going virtual).

bored out of my mind, i was glad, no, i BEGGED to write it for him. i was on blog-mode anyway. i think i have been the past couple of weeks.

so here are the two paragraphs i wrote for him. it's all bull though, since i didn't really read the stories and just relied on summaries.

for games (which is a story about a girl who has trouble trusting her boyfriend so she pretends to be different girls, texting her boyfriend with different numbers to see if he'll cheat on her):

people tend to do crazy things when it comes to love. having to deal with emotions can easily cloud judgments. i guess when you're put in such a vulnerable position, it's a reasonable concern. as an individual, it's easier to accept mistakes knowing full well that you put yourself in that situation. but when others are involved, it becomes a whole different story. you supposedly put your trust in someone else without ever having control over how his/her mistakes can affect you. this is the basic dilemma in any relationship. what people fail to realize though is that despite being involved, you still have control over your vulnerability. it's not just what you feel that makes relationships work. it's what you do that matters. and obviously, this girl in games let her heart rule her mind too much.

for document (which is a story about the trials of having to push friendship onto the next level with the aid of a letter):

how ironic is it that friends can easily talk about almost anything under the sun but when it comes to matters of the heart, the words just seem to escape us? they say that communication is key to a healthy relationship. yet we fear that what we say may not be enough or that the pressure of the moment will cause the words to come out differently. so we resort to paper, where supposedly, we can organize our thoughts and review them before we send them out. the thing is, communication doesn't involve just words. it needs intent, which is what intonation and facial expressions are there for. the document may have shown the power of communication in the sense that it had the characters assessing their feelings. but that's simply what it was: a catalyst. the real work is yet to be had. letters are sweet. letters are revealing. but nothing beats looking into the other person's eyes and watching their gestures -- the twitch of the eyes, the biting of the lips, the pace of the breaths -- reveal more than any set of words can ever say.

yes, i think i have a knack for pulling out bull from the deepest cathedral of my mind at the last minute. let's hope the professor is impressed. the way my friend describes it, it sounds like a bird course. haha..