Okay. 4 years, well, almost 5 years after graduation...what will I be known for?
What makes me, me?
Ba't na naman ako nag-iisip ng ganito.
Aaah, yes yes yo. I just came from a grueling meeting. With my strength and enthusiasm once again sapped off me, I write.
Deaths...going to wakes, always put things in perspective for me. They always leave me reassesing my life. Weirdly, long client meetings have been having the same effects on me.
They do have lots of parallelisms. For one, ideas die in meetings too. Another thing is that they leave me thinking, wondering whether or not I've done enough-- Did my efforts lead to good results, or were they nothing but futile. It always runs around my mind: the thought that we're focusing so much effort, so much time, so many highfaluting words over...this.
But the reality is, it's not just soap. It pays my salary. It gives thousands of people jobs. It...it...it's not too small a deal. But obviously, neither is it that freaking big.
At the end of it all, I can't help but ask, is it really worth it?
It has to be. Because I have no other choice? That sucks. But a part of me says this measly soap plays a part in the whole scheme of things. This soap whitens, cleans. This soap employs thousands of people to make it and sell it. This soap washes dirt away from millions of people's clothes. I hope it washes this nasty feeling away.
Bottom line, this soap makes money, lets other people make money, and specifically, pays me money.
Oooooh that sucks. Big time.
So when I die, what will they write on my tombstone? Here lies someone who made some ads about a certain soap.
Goodness gracious holy bulaga.
I guess it's about time I start taking my new year's resolutions seriously. If I want to be worth something, matter, and be remembered for good reasons, I ought to start moving my bum now. Because that copy on my tombstone doesn't look too good.
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If you want to be philosophical about it:
The reason we (haha, I'm including myself!) get paid big bucks to sell soap is because soap is big business. Why? Because EVERYONE needs it. No exceptions. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it pretty much down there at or near the base of the pyramid.
But it's precisely the existence of these nondescript bricks near the bottom of the pyramid -- food, clothing, shelter -- that makes it possible for the human soul to climb up to the apex of existence (philosophy, music, art...)
Life should not itself be boring, but it necessarily must be built on boring things. The mundane is what makes the sublime possible.
So don't look down on the lowly soap bar, or liquid, or powder. Call it one of the building blocks of civilization.
That is, unless you prefer artists of the ripe and pungent type ;)
-PDy
Yup, but when do I get to climb up to the apex of self-actualization?!
It's hard to see past all the suds, at this point in time.
Pero dahil gusto kong isipin na I see the glass half full...I guess there are still things to learn from this life-stage. *sigh* At...the moment I stop griping, things will start looking better. Oh, look the sun's shining again. Hehe... :)
And yes, I guess I do prefer the bad-boy/ pungent types. Joke lang regi. I now go for dennis trillo over robin padilla. That's another article altogether.
Well... you can always incorporate suds into your... 'recreational' activities.... mwahahaha
Gooood point!
Ano ibig sabihin ng pungent?
Yun ay isang uri ng prutas.
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