Mood: scaring myself. LOL
Let me recall a Gaiman short story.
There was a man who was weak and you can say, addicted to bargains. He would buy something useless if it meant that he’ll get something extra or he’ll get a discount. A particular incident regarding the woman he loves and another man left him angry enough to have the man killed. He looked through the yellow pages and actually found an ad that can respond to his need. So he calls them up just to try. Surprisingly, they accept his kind of order! So as he was negotiating with the sales person, the sales person offered to have the man he wants killed 2 for the price of 1. Of course the main character cannot resist such an offer especially after the sales person said “Isn’t there at least one more person you’d want to see dead?”
And jeezus, who doesn’t? Everybody has at least several people they want dead. Actually, if you think long and hard about it, you in your own mind have so many people you bear grudges on that you’ll eventually wipe out the whole human race if given the chance.
That’s what happens in the story. The sales person kept on giving him bargains and he kept on thinking of having more people killed to take advantage of the bargain; the initial intention of revenge becomes greed. In the end he gets the service completely free… for the request of wiping out everybody in the world. What he fails to realize is that “everybody in the world” includes himself.
uhhhyeah, that’s Gaiman for you. Anyway that story got me thinking and I know I’m not alone in this. I don’t like a lot of people. They don’t have to be directly related to me. I don’t like certain actors on TV, I don’t like certain politicians, I don’t like a lot of people and jeezus, I’ve wished death upon a certain person for a little less than two years now. I’ve entertained thoughts of painful and agonizing murder for those people who screwed up some parts of my life.
So if I actually have the power to do anything I want with them, will I really? Will I really have them killed? I know Gaiman didn’t really intended it to be this way but the story was like a wake-up call for my conscience. I can hate as much as I want and blurt out things like, “I really want to kill her! Make her suffer before she dies a gruesome death!” but can I really stand up to the task? If I can’t handle someone else’s existence it just proves how weak I am. In the end the person who truly deserves to die would be me. The one who’s weak and wishes death upon her enemies.
I didn’t mean this to be gruesome. It was just a thought. Heh. Now I rest.
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