BOBOT

I posted this blog 8 years ago in my Livejournal.com. Sadly, my blogsite doesn't work anymore. I always loved the sincerity of it. One of my best students write this for me and I still have the fondness reading it. This is how she knew me. This how she sees me.

I am a very sentimental person with deep, DARK secrets.

I am not a fan of mediocrity. AT ALL.

I live and die in the name of art and creativity. And intellect. And truth. And beauty. What will the world be without a hint of beauty?

I am, by all means, not inclined to things that lack luster and are dull. I go for shimmer. I want things that shine. I WANT TO SHINE.

If dancing is a way of life, then you could say I have a very interesting lifestyle.

Francis Bacon couldn't have put it better: reading is for ornament. Kowtowing, I am well-accesorized.

I am often the subject of ridicule and criticism. It should weigh me down, but it does not, for it only shows one thing: I MATTER. Enough to be talked about and criticized.

I am not into people who backstab. But I am an expert in doing the side stab and the front stab.

My only strength also happens to be my only kryptonite: and that is love. Yes, while it has the power to make me really happy, it also has the power to crush me. Being the wise person that I am, I use it sparingly. Exceptions, however, are made when you are worthy.

If I were to live a nomadic existence, I think I'd survive just fine. Because I have the skills and the charisma to actually do so - something people who only rely on books and mathematical prowess and scientific knowledge simply can't, for the love of God, pull off.

I was - and I would like to believe I still am - a teacher for a time. I teach my students about grammar and speech; about how to construct the perfect essays; how to dissect the absurdities of a poem. I usher them into the world of Shakespeare and Chaucer and Venerable Bede and Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde....However, the one teaching I would have wanted to teach them is something I am currently just learning to realize and cherish and to apply:

LIFE IS SHORT. LIVE IT.