Observations of a Near-Sociopath #3: You are who you are, deal with it… deal it

I've observed that humans put much prime on literature, philosophy, art, and pride themselves with being able to absorb, digest and expel knowledge of ‘art’ and all things ‘high culture.’ At the end of the day, everything is reduced to the ability to make sense of the abstract or to conjure imaginings that are supposed to resonate the ‘truth’ about human existence. Truth be told, a dash of paint on a plain canvas, absent all pretensions, is a dash of paint on a plain canvas. If such is art then a faulty splash of paint by a carpenter, a kindergartner, or an art major with too few units to qualify as an artist is art. On the side of fiction, it could be possible that the proverbial apple is, after all, an apple. A writer already so great in stature might actually wake up one morning, roused from sleep by a nightmare about a coconut falling from a tree, hitting his head, thus killing him, suddenly decides to scribble the said nightmare and die from a completely unrelated reason the next day. After shrines and shrines are built up in his honor, someone might chance upon the scribble and assume that the coconut is not a coconut after all…  it actually concerns an analogy about the cosmos, the big bang, the cave and everything in between… which ultimately serves as a prescience of the said artist’s doom.

Sorry for going through the roundabout route. What I want to say is, after you take out all the b.s. and the suppositions of what things mean and address them for what they are you may realize that things are what they are. Of course, this realization is often unpleasant, thus the resort to fiction and the ‘what if’s’ and the ‘what should be’s.’ If you address who you are, as you are, you can deal with it. The thing is, after you deal with it, having full knowledge of what you are permits you not only to deal with it but to deal it. Not one person has everything. Sure there are some who have quite a lot more of ‘not everything’ compared to someone else, but knowing what’s in your arsenal allows you to utilize that one good thing, or those good things’ full potential. So there, deal with it, then deal it. 

- in a perfect world this disclaimer is probably unnecessary: this is a first-person point of view of a fictitious character -