Some dark reflections . . . .

I'm sure many of you might have read the Johanna Spyri's famous book "Heidi". It's about a little girl who changes the lives of many people for the better with her sweet and simple ways. However, my purpose of mentioning Heidi here at this point is not for that reason. In the book, Heidi's grandpa stays in a simple little cottage at the top of the Alps, with only nature and his little granddaughter for company, living a simple life. He had no overpowering ambition to become the next business tycoon, neither did he waste his life pining for some other human. He had no such extra and unnecessary wants in life. He had no family other than his little granddaughter and he did not care. He did not bother about what others thought and how others lived.

Many a times in my life, I've envied Heidi's grandpa for his simple life and wished I could have a life like that. I've understood one thing: at the end of the day, each one works only for himself/herself. There is nothing called selflessness. It's just a useless concept, like gold for a dying man or glasses for a blind man . . . .

I'm sick and tired of all this politics of manipulation and double-dealing that goes on under the name of "human culture". In Hellboy 2, when the professor reads the story of the golden Army for Hellboy, a line goes as follows, "Man was born with a hole in his heart . . . ."
I cannot find truer words than this.

So, instead of pretending to enjoy company, we can live a solitary and happy life, away from others people's interference. For those people who can't live without taking advantage of others, find some losers whom you can leech off and spare the rest of us.

People might find my words venomous, but it's the truth nonetheless.
As a popular saying goes,
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."