This is a post written from the bottom of my heart; this is a post about the common, and yet the less used word nowadays, MORALITY.
I’ll begin with the reason for choosing this “useless” topic. There are so many things I haven’t known about myself so far, but when they revealed I was extremely disappointed.
I realize that I hate parvenus, I hate snobbery, I hate stupidity, I hate indifference, I hate to say that I hate something! I hate that I cannot rejoice at my happiness, at my success, at my life, because of the anonymous people around me. I hate that it’s December and instead of having kind feelings and writing nicely posts here, I write about morality and its lost sense...
I won’t go on with my “I hate” list, because unfortunately, it seems to be endless.
The source of inspiration for this post is an article from a well-known magazine in my country (a women magazine, containing all the shoddy stuff “modern” woman likes to read, instead of looking up the dictionary in order to find out how the name of the magazine is pronounced!!!).
I looked at the summary, nothing weird, nothing appealing to me, everything so lame, it was all about people I have never heard in my life, that were said to be starts (huh?); it was all about their nothingness!
As I was skimming the shiny (for no reason) pages, I came across an article having the title: “Successful business women”! And as soon as you read the title, you are aware of its content, it’s like a deja-vu. The picture, the fake “surgical” smile, the unpleasant at touch rubber breasts, the dirty white outfit, the expensive shoes which are affordable to “special” women only, the clean and yet disgusting office ( probably designed by an architect just like herself), everything was revealing the poor background of the successful business woman in the successful magazine (owned by a successful TV “star”)!
I don’t even know why on earth I have read that cheap article, because they all serve the same dish: it’s all about an unknown person, about NULL , a so called “celebrity”, a woman trying to hide the way she succeeded.
She was proudly talking about her “career” past (I know the inverted commas start annoying you, but believe me I haven’t used them here as much as I’d like to), about the “University” she pretended to have attended (though, I don’t blame her absence from school, as the University she went to was useless anyway), she talked about the very “special” men (with satisfactory bank accounts for a woman of this kind) she had met and from whom she received so much help (get serious!!!)… It was all impregnated with those nonsense words of a woman of no merits, but owning a company in an obscure field (at least to me – I’m being a little bit subjective, but I blame it on the University of Computer Science that I’m attending).
What pisses me off so much is this bullshit women seem to like so much, this horrible magazines revealing cheap people, cheap characters and immoral monsters! What pisses me off so much is a NOBODY trying to teach us how to be successful…and bla bla…
Being a good child, having remarkable results, having won important prices in Mathematics, speaking foreign languages (without attending a foreign languages faculty – no comment), attending the most prestigious University in my country, working in a top international IT corporation, all these seem not to be enough to become a “successful business woman” worth being on a magazine cover. But honestly, when I look at these successful women background, when I look at their disgusting faces, when I look at the people impressed by their stories, I know that I could never be one of them! (Thank God!)
There would be so much more to say, but I think it’s enough; it’s not even worth it… What matters is that I’m starting to feel better :) And I’m so happy with my life!
Some quotations I have collected regarding morality:
“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare” - Mark Twain
“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time” - Henry Louis Mencken
“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness” - Immanuel Kant
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” - Aristotle
