Complicating Things

Writing should never be complicated. All you need is either a peace of paper and a pen or a computer and properly working keyboard. But I guess I forget that I’m talking about myself here, a guy who seems to love to complicate the simplest thing. I guess that’s the reason why I never am able to hit the simplest lay-ups and basketball but get 3 people bumping into me while I’m in mid-air, I miraculously hit the shot. I guess I make my life more difficult by complicating matters. I complicate my own life instead of simplifying it. It’s called the Jio disease.

Symptoms:

While reading, one should enjoy the story and go along the drama each page brings. I try to find a non-existent symbolism in the lines of each page. If you catch yourself finding symbolism in a recap of the recent Ateneo vs La Salle match, then you definitely have Jio.

While solving a Math problem, instead of just following the formula given I need to ask why I should follow it, where is vital proof that this is the right formula, why is it this way, where did pie come from, where did… OOPS! Time’s up, pass your papers.

When fixing my computer, I resort to several unorthodox habits like planting in a new hard drive and then installing a new OS when all I needed to do was to delete a certain file in the system32 folder.

When writing, I tend to expound on an idea and eventually making it go round and round leaving my post utterly useless. Apparently it seems explicitly stupid to just talk about one thing and saying the facts over and over again just to make a certain paragraph seem long. Why don’t we just give it a direct approach and talk about it instead of repeating everything over and over again? I mean what is the use of repeating everything over and over again just to make the entire paragraph seem so long by repeating the facts you’re preciously presented over and over again? *go figure*

When listening to a song, instead of head-banging and enjoying the tune, I listen so closely to the lyrics to try and decipher the message of the song, till I notice that it’s all the same message, love, peace and all those cliché themes. But! There are exceptions, like Narda by Kamikazee that talks about something else, the songs talks about Angel Locsin. Now I know why everyone is listening to Narda.

When studying, you memorize every term you find in your notebook yet miss out the small details which you think is basically common sense. Though common sense usually escapes when I start taking the test, 80% of the test is based on the things you didn’t memorize. I’m never memorizing again, everything I memorized didn’t come out in the Science exam.

When blogging, you spend several hours trying to write what you will eventually call a literary masterpiece. Something you have been thinking of for several hours and contemplating so hard on. 5 minutes before the lunch, you intentionally close Microsoft Word without saving.

When you consistently talk about the same things OVER and OVER and you become so predictable, then you definitely have Jio. I think I spent the entire 2^nd year talking either about Music or La Salle and Ateneo. I think one of my works featured two armies fighting against each other. Ms. Kate saw the allusion to La Salle and Ateneo. It can’t be helped; I wrote it while anticipating the game later that afternoon.

If you experience any of these, I bid you good luck! You need intensive medical attention.