I’d be a lot happier. So what’s so great about sayings when most of them are probably never that accurate in the first place? Realistically and sometimes even fundamentally crippled – a lot of famous sayings fall into this category.

If you love someone, let them go. If they’re the one for you, they’ll come back
Do help me out here. What a load of crap this is. It sounds terribly like some heartbroken sentimental old fool trying to comfort herself (or is it him?) from the pain of heartreak. The end result? Delusion. Of course, it’s not very surprising. If you let them go, they’ll probably come back with a wife and kids in tow. And then they’ll say something like “Hey, long time no see! Meet my family!”

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
Ehem, excuse me. It would probably be more accurate to say ‘fear your own selves’ first before you go all delusional and start being afraid of ‘fear’. Where does fear come from? Your brain, or your mind that thinks too much for it’s own sake. If you don’t feel fear, you probably won’t recognise how and what ‘fear’ is, so you definitely couldn’t go around fearing fear. Look, this thing even managed to make me confuse myself.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself
I believe cats are 100 times more vain than the whole population of humans and dogs combined. Peacocks not counted. This sarcasm of comparing human beings to dogs or any other animals is just too lame now. Bring the animal rights in, people.

A life without love is like a year without summer
Summer is hot, summer is sticky, and filled with the smell of sweat and the vision of people wearing minimal clothing articles. Summer’s only all that great because you get to go on Summer holidays for months, and you also get to do some tanning. Hrm.

An unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates should have defined ‘examined’ explicitly before thinking that his brain is so friggin great he could awe people indefinitely with his wisdom. No one can ever judge what kind of life is worth living. Saying lives aren’t worth living is just like committing a verbal or internal suicide. Way to go to kill your own self esteem.

Alright, I probably should stop here before this entry drags on.

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