muddled cerebrations
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in class yesterday, we were supposed to come up with things that really bother us. and, well, i said that i like all people. that was sort of a facetious statement, but, then, after saying it and trying to think of a real answer with the time that my response bid me, i realized, i couldn't really think of anything that really bothers me. i mean, yes, many things make me uncomfortable, but, that's an entirely different situation from being bothered. other people in the class said that they can't stand bicyclists and, well, that made me think, i'm a bicyclist. hah. but, what they couldn't stand about bicyclists is how they think that they always have right of way and that they've got it so hard trying to weave in and out of people when it's really the pedestrians who have it hard because they have to evade getting run over by unskilled bicyclists pretending to be otherwise. and, well, that made me laugh. and they were also irked by how there is such an almost infestation of bicyclists all around, forcing pedestrians or drivers to have to wait all of the time to get anywhere. and, well, my response to that (in my head, because i, nominally fearless me, stagger too much when speaking spanish, making me a highly inhibited spanish speaker) was that i get caught up in traffic occasionally, but because cars are the ones who go ahead of me and don't take heed of me being there. granted, that usually occurs because i'm not assertive and i let them go and wait for them, and by the time all of them have crossed, i've lost my right of way. but, i never really thought of it as something all too terrible that it really bothered me. rather, i just saw someone go first and make the car that was turning left wait for them to cross halfway and all seemed fair in that situation, so i followed along in example afterwards. i suppose it's that i really do try to brush things off.
then again, i don't know if the things that the kids in class said were all too sincere or just something that they could pull out when was called upon, whereas, i bumbled an answer that gave a sense of only partial fulfillment. anyways, i suppose the revelation was that i had to think really hard to pick out something that bothered me, and even then, those things aren't even things that really bother me that much. really, if confronted with those things, i just evade the scene. or, perhaps i'm just privileged and don't have to be faced with those things that bother me all of the time. that could be it. hm.
one last thing. jedi-ism really matches up with buddhism. it really threw me off when i watched the 3rd episode last night and heard the wise teachings of the jedis's lining up with the ideals of impermanence and inevitability and how in order to get anywhere, we have to be able to give up things and not want anything in particular. i'm sure others have figured this one out before though. either way, it sort of made me smile.
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