Funny How…

Funny how after a meal with some friends, you offer to pay for it, but you just can’t help hoping that they would pay for it instead.

Funny how when they offer to pay for it, you say “no need, no need” but actually you’re hoping that they also say the same thing.

Funny how when they do pay for it, you say “thanks very much” but inside you let out a sigh of relief.

Funny how we usually go all out to do things for people who we love, but they never notice or acknowledge it.

Funny how people we dislike or don’t bother with shower us with gratitude when we do the smallest thing for them.

Funny how we lose touch with people when we step out of their circle.

Funny how we try so hard to keep in touch with old friends, when in actual fact, we don’t really care.

Funny how we love to go for weddings, but hate it when there are too many to go to.

Funny how people love to tell us things in black and white when we are facing gray areas.

Funny how we feel compelled to give a “good report book” when people ask us about our lives or when they ask “How are you doing over there?”

Funny how we keep asking “How are you?” but don’t know why we even bother.

Funny how we sometimes try to catch up with old friends, but very rarely do we get far or deep enough.

Funny how I still find my former sister-in-law’s blog intriguing and real, although… well, although.

Funny how we love to have hundreds and hundreds of online contacts on Facebook, but we don’t even communicate with more than 50 of them.

Funny how we can use the words “I don’t know” as an excuse for anything.

Funny how when we leave a place, we long to be back, but when we’re back, we long to leave.

Funny how when we’re young, we solemnly swear that we will never end up like the adults we see, but when we finally grow up, we end up being exactly what we said we didn’t want to be.

Funny how we cry at weddings but not at divorces.

Funny how death changes us, but only temporarily, until someone else we know dies.

“Mad World” (Tears for Fears, popularized recently by Adam Lambert)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
‘Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very Mad World

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
‘Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very Mad World

Life is funny, sometimes sad.

But it’s the little constants that keep us going.

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Okay, enough Photoshop-ing.

For now.