The monkeys

Darwin was right! Men definitely came from monkeys.

Monkeys might belong to different races. They might be white, black, indigenous, mongoloids. These differences work as pretexts for some monkeys believe they are better than the other ones.

Monkeys might have different social status. They might be beggar, poor, rich, millionaire. These differences work as pretexts for some monkeys explore the other ones.

Monkeys might worship different gods and prophets. They might be Christians, Jews, Muslins, Buddhists. These differences work as pretexts for some monkeys attack the other ones.

Monkeys might be different physically. They might be tall, short, fat, thin, gorgeous, ugly. These differences work as pretexts for some monkeys discriminate the other ones.

Monkeys might have different ages and sexualities. They might be men, women, children, straights, homosexuals. These differences work as pretexts for some monkeys believe they deserve a special treatment comparing to the other ones.

Even though they have all these differences, they are all monkeys.

Monkeys are not polite. They scratch their genitals in front of others, they belch, they fart, they speak loud, they interrupt the other monkeys while speaking, they jump the rows, they park on the space designated to elderly and handicap monkeys, they let their cell phones ringing at the movies, they do not respect the crosswalks...

Monkeys are evil. They invent gossips, they spread gossips, they buy gossips, they make evil jokes, they mock the others, they tell lies, they enjoy the other’s tragedies, they want to know who was murdered on the noon news.

Monkeys feed themselves eating trash. They gather in front of the TV to watch urban tragedies, they listen to obscene songs, the wear the fashion tatter clothes and spend their banana-coins to pay and to get more debts in order to impress the monkeykind.

Monkeys are the basis of the pyramid; they are the mass, the population’s majority. Monkeys have the power. Monkeys are the power. They elect the new successful songs and TV programs. They elect the monkey-king who will explore them and have a fancy life while starving monkeys will call him “Your Majesty”. Monkeys accommodate themselves on their rotten trees praying and putting “on the Hands of God” their hope of better days.

Monkeys are the gears that move the world back. They see nothing, they listen nothing, they say nothing. They do not care to be explored and eat trash. They do not want to improve. They feel glad with small things. It is easy to please the monkeys. Does the monkey want bananas? Give bananas to the monkey!

Beauty and nothing

One day I looked at the desire, but it even looked at me. I was out of the beauty standards.

Good morning, desire. I see you wherever I look, on TV, on the magazines, on the billboards, at the movies, at the mall. It is impossible not falling in love with your beautiful face, perfect smile, your soft skin, your bright hair, your hot body.

One day I looked at the desire, but it even looked at me. I was out of the beauty standards.

It hit me hard my ego and self-confidence. I have never felt so ugly and unattractive. I wish I could be an ostrich and lay my head on the ground.

But I would not want to conform myself being an ugly and unattractive one for all my life. So, I started to build my beauty, ignoring superficial beauty and building my inner beauty.

People around me got surprised due to all my intelligence, but I still was not attractive, I was not a desire. Why nobody could see my inner beauty? The “Beauty and the Beast” tale did not touch anybody? Was it just hypocrisy?

I started to hate much more the desire, being aggressive with those who admire the desire and the desire itself. I learned to be rude and sarcastic when offending it. I would like revenge because you rejected me.

I screamed:
― For me, you are the perfect example that beauty and nothing have the same meaning.

You did not understand. I got frustrated. Shit!

...

But who am I trying to fool? In fact, I still want the desire even though I am not like it. And I am a frustrated one because I am out of the beauty standards. I think if I was frothy, or if I stopped rejecting what was said it is frothy, I would become frothy and happier...

Yes, I enjoy being hit and having my heart dragged through the roasting and dirty roads of Guinea-Bissau.



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Afraid of Sophia

As I am afraid of the truth, I prefer to live the comfort of the ignorance.

They have arrived full of knowledge and I was afraid of them having the power to make blind people to see the world from a blindness that keeps me in the power. I will send them to the bonfire.

I have created a whole universe, fantastic stories, the good ones winning the bad ones, divine justice, severe punishments; everything was well-created to make me the most immaculate being in the world and to make my case always.

But the lost sheep have run away from their group seeking for the truth and some knowledge. They have discovered disconnected things, contradictions. I have sent my best bad wolves to hunt them, annoy them and make them feel afraid of the punishments of my book.

I am really afraid, I strongly repel it and the last word is mine, always mine. Power is mine, only mine and never will be theirs. I behave as if I were innocent. I say you are possessed by bad spirits, you are evil, you do not believe in anything and your retribution will be grisly.

And them I leave running, I summon my followers to confuse you. Most of the people are right, right? Do not try to make us to see. Ignorance comforts us and makes us feel so good... We are fine living this way. So, get out, I do not want to know. I will escape from you. Get out, get out!

Knowledge and superiority scare the weak and ignorant ones.

Further

It is difficult not associating people around us to happiness. We need people; the most difficult thing is finding the right ones.

During our life, we met thousands of people, but only some of them will become our friends or affairs. We seek for special people who will support us in difficult times. Have not we already found these ones but we have not notice it or we have ignored them?

You may say:

― But there are a lot of people in this world. How could we know?

We create a kind of filter. We filter people and we also idealize the ones who do for us, taking in consideration our tastes, expectations and personality.

Sometimes we get so focused in the profile we are looking that makes us ending up considering it as true. What does not fit the ideal is not useful, so our filter says: discard this one.

We discard people because we have no patience for trying to know them better. We blindly believe in our jaundices and crazy theories about “the reason of they behaving the way they do”, even though we have just met them five minutes ago.

You may have already met someone who you considered unbearable at the first sight, but today, helped by the time, you have discovered that you was wrong about this one, right? Of course it may have happened! But what did you change your mind? The fact of living together with this one?

Yes, living together force us knowing people deeper. It shows us that our conceits of “the right person for me” limits us too much, it makes us close our eyes not seeing people out of our conceits may also be interesting. It is a matter of taking a chance on others and taking a chance on you.

― Oh, but there are a lot of people in the world and my filters are so helpful...

Let’s be careful with our filters, ideals and conceits. They not only limit us on knowing a very specific kind of people as they also may be specious. They can make our searching on looking for interesting people something exhausting and frustrating.

So what about ignore them a little bit? Will you be able to discover the “knowing me, knowing you” magic? Are you willing? Are you willing to look further?