yet another tiring yet gooood day 
went to catch anger management just now.. and it got me thinking… usually when i think too much its never a good thing..
spoilers from anger management!! (so those who intend the catch the show or hate spoilers, stop reading here!! hehee..*
really weird.. but whilst watching the show, i found myself being able to relate totally with Adam Sandler’s character. Contrary to my initial impressions from a title like anger management, the show isn’t about anger like we traditionally picture it. Rather, it is more about trying to solve the problem of implosive anger. Implosive anger is the anger we hold within ourselves. Supposedly this kinda anger is pent up, cooped up and not let looose. But the day it breaks the locks, there is no turning back.
which brings back the issue to me (which unfortunately, is the main focus of this blog, is it not?). the moment Dr. Buddy (Jack Nick) mentions this fact, i was like, holy crap vic, he’s talking to you. i for one, am someone like that. someone totally non-confrontational, easily going along with anything, and sometimes a total push-over. i like bein a nice guy, and i would like to believe that its in my nature to be one, but then there exists this breeeed of people in this world called, “take-advantage-of-ers”.. who make use of this givin-in side and just spoil it all. sometimes i feel like Dave (adam Sand) in the movie, totally frustrated, totally pissed, but just trying to settle the situation peacefully and without offending anyone. maybe sometimes u just gotta shove some balls into people’s throats, maybe sometimes u just have to shove dumplings up their ass, and maybe sometimes u should just give them a wedgie. but just when should this “sometime” be? wouldn’t allowing urself to get pissed once, entitle u to get pissed again? i think there’s a fallacy called “the slippery slope fallacy” or “the grain of sand fallacy”.. it goes like this…
if we keep making exceptions, like say, saying that just aborting one baby wouldn’t make a difference and be wrong, then what’s to say that aborting maybe one more or maybe two more or maybe a gazillion more would be wrong? where do you draw the line?
back to the topic. so is it justified for me/someone/you to shove some nuts into people’s eye sockets cuz you’re pissed at them? and to have a pissed attitude for the rest of the day? and affecting all the other innocent bystanders around you? is it right for me to scream at the stupid supermarket girl, who’s taking like 2 minutes to swipe my atm card, just because i was having a crummy day (which had totally nothing to do with her)?
i hope i haven’t lost anyone yet.. watz the point? i dunno.. just trying to ramble off some thoughts of my head at the risk of trying to sound too philosophical.. urgh… i shudder to think…
maybe i’m just pissed at ppl who treat others badly jus cuz they had a bad day, maybe i’m just pissed at myself for not being able to be like them, maybe i’m just being a bit mad, maybe i’m just spouting rubbish.. maybe… erm.. run out of maybes…
so should i just lose it and scream at the next waiter who pisses me off? or should i just puncture the tyres, scratch the paint, superglue their carkeyhole and pour some sand into the petrol tank of the next car that steals my parking lot? i dunno..
spoiler ends here
another thing i noticed about the show was the sheer glorification of the individualistic pursuit of self-fulfilment, the sign of the American way… somethign which our society is slowly beginning to be assimilated by.. is that what we want? a society of individualists? call me old fashioned and heavily indoctrinated, but i’m still one for communitarian values. nation before community, community before self. (god i sound like a PAP politician). but isn’t the the basis for a true nation and community? pardon my crap.. heee.. i think i’m drunk on lack of sleep…
both of them… 