R.E.S.P.E.C.T

I always believe in giving credit when its due, and today's post is about giving credit. Its about recognising the efforts and contributions of certain groups of people and highlighting the characteristics that makes them special. So without wasting any time, let us dive straight into the first group.

BODYBUILDERS

You know every now and then you take a walk down town or anywhere with lotsa human activity, and you are very much likely to bump into many of these hardcore bodybuilders. And you will know a bodybuilder when you see one, not just because of those bulging muscles, but also because of their highly unproportional body structure. And then you think to yourself, damn.. This people need our respect. Of course they do, especially when they spend so much of time, effort, sweat and whatever not, on manipulating their body for a specific purpose, though many of us are unable to understand what the purpose is. But credit has to be given to their exemplary discipline, in doing something to themselves, that not only makes them look ugly, but is also potentially harmful to their health (with all the dietary requirements that accompany bodybuilding), and might also have life altering effects. Why they body-build with such fervent enthusiasm, i never will be able to know. They might try to hide behind an insecure self by building up their physical structure, but hey even that is respect worthy too.. Bruce lee, is by far the world's best known martial arts exponent, and he had a way of training his body that made him look hot as well as fit. Though many of these bodybuilders, might never be able to define the meanings of healthy and fit, they deserve my respect for the sheer effort they put into what they do, even if what they do is highly contradictory.

GOSSIPMONGERS

Ohhh.. These people deserve even more respect than the bodybuilders. I mean, can you imagine the effort they put into their tasks. Sitting down with a group of potentially uninterested people, engaging them into a conversation, and then giving them totally unnecessary information and critiques about other people, and then injecting the right amount of humour and sarcasm to make themselves look believable?? Jus typin it out takes so much effort. Imagine doing it. Damn they have my respect. I mean can you even imagine the repercussions these people face. Not only are they stigmatised as "bitches" and "bastards", they also face the possibility that they might do exactly the same things that they bitch about other people doing. But they continue what they do, so fearlessly, and not giving two hoots about the hypocrisy label that might befall them. And not forgetting the countless enemies they make along the way. Yet they persist in doing what they do. Damn.. These people definitely have my respect.

PESSIMISTS

If the previous two groups earned my respect, these last group of people have taken it for wholesale. When i mean pessimists, i do not talk about the practical people who know when the end is near. I'm talking more about the people, who not only believe that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, but rather believe that there is no light at all. You know who i'm talking about. The one who pours cold water on every plan discussed. The one who is fearful, and has no hope whatsoever for anything. The one who believes that there is no point in doing anything to salvage a situation since it is gonna be over any way. And trust me, this people definitely have my respect. Hope is what makes the world go round. When the shit around you, makes you feel sad and gloomy, Hope is wad makes your heart go warm. And im sure many of you might have felt that. (hope warming your heart in a near hopeless situation). And that simply is why, pessimists have my respect. Simply because they live their lives with no warmth. I mean, can you imagine being negative about everything. That must be damn sad. But these people live every waking day with such sadness, and in fact live it as their norm, so it really isnt sad for them. Now isn't that respect worthy? If not for pessimists, the world would be too happy a place, where everything is possible. Now would you want such a world? That is why, pessimists have been the ideal synonym for respect-worthy, in my dictionary.

Now let us just take a moment, to be in awe over the ideals represented by these above groups of people and also curse our wretched self, (me for writing this post, and you for reading it). I have absolutely no purpose in writing this, except to put in black and white my thoughts on this current day. Now accept my sincere apologies for having you read this literal diarrhoea, and be rest assured that the next post will DEFINITELY be more RESPECT-WORTHY!