Controversial People

Someone once told me that I have a thing for controversial characters. Probably true, considering I liked my presumptous piano teacher who thought I was positively retarded, and I happily worked a full 3 years for possibly the least-liked professor in school.

What I’m missing now, is really those annoying, crazy, slightly-out-of-place characters who will jump in out of nowhere and instigate some adventure. The people I work with daily are brilliant, but it will be better to know that I also work with people who count the number of species of snails in Singapore during the weekends, or train to extinguish a candle with a single pebble throw.

I miss having people I can amuse myself with, then complain about later. Those opinionated people who dare, not to be different, but to be themselves. Those who dare to do what they really believe makes them a better person, even if it makes the world hate them. I miss all these people you’d love and hate.

Maybe I’m hoping to make up for a personal deficiency, or it probably came out of the holiday season – all those parties and overseas holidays just make you want to run away from the drudgery and go have some fun.

Even if fun means reading Les Miserables. I came across a great compliment to the womenfolk:

Woman feels and speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, that infallibility. Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of heaven.

- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

It sure would be great to be like that. Then again, that wouldn’t be being myself.