Shades of Gray & Silver

Oxymorons. ;)

They kick ass.

Y'know what I mean.

It's when you put two contradicting words together in a single expression. Everyone uses them. Like, my personal favourite 'an eternal moment', or a better example would be Charmaine's 'cynical-idealism'.

Oxymorons are the embodiments of a world where there truly is no longer any black and white.

Oh... Detour for a moment on a lil side note. LoL... I learnt a new word todae. Bombastic... Lmao... Mr. Alvin Bong used it to describe the language in Daphne's blog.

Anyway...

Back to black and white.

The world is obsessed with right and wrong. But really, what is it? What is right? Who decides who's wrong? Judges use the law and past experience to help them at very best make an educated guess. That’s why false convictions and dismissal are made all the time. That’s why sentences vary from judge to judge even on cases that are so similar that they almost identical. That’s why never is there an issue where absolutely everyone agrees upon entirely. Heard the fable about the boy the donkey and his grandfather? Nvm...

Everyone aspires to greatness. Everyone pursues perfection. But how do you get there? How do you know when you're there? How do you know where it even is? Most people select role models and idols from the ranks of the rich, famous or renowned across the world. Even more model themselves after divinity. Others follow stringently in the large footsteps of their father, brother or local legend. Decidedly few sculpt themselves to their own personal designs. What’s more none of those 'personal' designs are wholly original. We are never the pure architects of own minds thoughts, as much as we wish to be.

So I think Einstein got it right.

We live in a world of relative morality, relative greatness, relative perfection.

The unfortunate fact is, nobody really knows what any of these grandiose concepts pertain. All we can do is weigh it against the masses and what the majority believes. And that’s where relativity comes in. All our judgments come from what people around us think. Therefore it's not surprising that millions struggle and strive to fit into the molds that society has indirectly but all but inevitably forcibly coaxed them into in their noble quest of self-betterment. Have you ever heard the expression people are sheep? Baa... Wonder where that came from... Hmm... You could say that precedent, canons and stereotypes are equally crucial cogs in the foundation of the great machines of concept. True... but only insofar as the populations belief in them reaches. A stereotype only influences those who accept it as the truth. Its arms are only as long as those of his believers. Ultimately there is no genuine essence to any concept. They are literally what we believe them to be. They are only what we say they are. In the end everyone has a different understanding of the truth. I guess that’s why religion is so tantalizingly enticing. It provides clear-cut answers to life’s mysteries. Regrettably now even the purity of religion is muddled. Especially among the religions of the book. Irony is in the fact that books are nothing more than a collection of pages and the written page is often considered to be the proverbial black and white. Who would've thought that such violent rivalry would ensue between the followers of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Who would've thought that they would zealously massacre each other for centuries without end? Undeniably there are great chasms between the beliefs, but when you take a look at their origin... Nvm... I don't think I should go there. ;)

Flip the coin and see its sides,

On heads you see magnanimity; on tails you'll see cowardice.

On heads you'll view love, on tails; lust

On heads the coin is black; on tails the coin is white.

In between is the vast plateau where the grass is gray and the sky is silver.