the way i see it...

"It’s difficult for people to get rid of junk. They get attached to things and let them define who they are. If there’s one thing I have learned in this business, it’s that you are what you can’t let go off."
--Brian Scudamore (Founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?).
That’s what my Starbucks paper cup read today. At first, I just smiled coz I found it to be extremely agreeable with my thought process. Then I went into a short yet deep meditation about the idea. And then I decided to hit the closest Internet access place (which turned out to be the library) and put my thoughts down about it on my dear blog.
"You are what you cannot let go of." If I were to be a very integral and moral person…it is my integrity and morality that I could not give up on. On the other hand, if I COULD easily chuck up the aforementioned salient characteristics then I would by no means be an integral or a moral person. Makes wonderful sense, doesn’t it? Nod in affirmation or be the victim of my wrath!
I feel enlightened coz now I can append another valuable statement, (hypothesis at a threshold?) to my definition of character. It is a definition I have added to as I have advanced in terms of experience in life, read books, met people, watched documentaries and biopics and had all the other kinds of interaction with “ (raw) human nature” as everyone else has. Having said that, I would like to mention that I do not like to judge people. I am no one to pass judgment on the character of others. But I do like to understand in a depth as possible as my proximity and time spent with people permits, their character and reactions. Why do people say what they say? Do they really mean what they say they do? Where does it all come from? Hardly the stuff that should interest an electrical engineer right? Perhaps it suits the interest of a psychologist or a sociology student or a social worker or maybe a counselor. But I am what I am and what interests me does. And who knows, the day I become a professor, I shall be glad that I honed this sense of mine when I did.
So anyway, I shall close this topic here for now coz I am sure that depth into the subject will be boring to someone who’s not thinking it himself/herself. Talking about judgment and professors…I think Charlotte Bronte is a little too judgmental (specially in terms of physiognomy) in her book “The Professor” (1856). Not something I was expecting but let me read and see how it goes…...
P.S. Doesn’t that coffee look mmmmmm??