reality check

the world is full of amazing things. they're blown all over the media: papers, tv, radio. shirts, shipping bags, on the sides of lorries, mobile phone screens. and i wonder: how much of it do you believe, and howmuch of it do you notice?

do you believe the news? do you hear it or do you listen to it?

do you believe advertisements? do you understand how the creatives came by the underlying reasoning to manifest into the piece you see say, on the streets, at the bus station, the departmental stores? or do you merely see the direct message that they advocate?


but what i am trying to ask is merely: how much gets to you when you read, when you see?


does reading evoke certain feelings in you, or have you become somewhat like me, slightly jaded, a little world-weary (yes, already!) and do you notice that the news in newpaper tend to be more tragic than that of the straits times (imho anyway) but you're hardly bothered anymore because it must be 'sensationalised news'?

and what if it weren't news? what if it were a letter from a family member, saying hello and giving you an update on how the baby girl is; or an email from a friend complete with pictures, of her trip to brazil?

you would believe that and you would take time to read and appreciate that for they're 'real'. how many links would you accept in the chain of events before you say that it's not good anymore?

how much do you believe in those words you read?

...i know i'm a naive person. i tend to believe bydefault. i think the world is prettier when it's a little blurred around the edges and i've never understood why some prefer to see each and every grain of colour when a picture is presented to them.

is it another way of seeing 'the blurry world'? or is it just being myopic?


hmmm.

and how much gets to you, how much do you see?