Eucalyptus and onion

" Do I contradict myself?
I am large I contain multitudes"

They say its a folly to help your enemies, and they could be right. For your enemies would probably use the help to undermine you later, that is, if you give them a chance. This is as certain as the sun rises everyday.

But some of you wouldn't mind that would you? You would like to be the good Samaritan's to your enemies. You believe in doing good, even to your enemies. You would like to turn the other cheek all the time.

Oh man, not good for you, no not ever. Other than your cheek's getting bashed up, there is never any good coming out of it. Your opponents would relish such an opportunity to get you at a disadvantage. And weakness is the greatest disadvantage that you can have when you have enemies.

Weakness breeds doubts about right and wrong, about good and bad, about courage and cowardice. Weakness tends to make you believe one is the other, that bravery is cowardice and chickening out is the best of practices.

My advice is,

If you kill (even when you kill insects), do it in style, do it without regrets, do it as if you were born to do it. Not a touch of remorse should hamper your thoughts. That is the only way to do it. Do it with relish and panache.

But there are those amongst you who have been brought up with compassion for the vanquished at heart. Apart from being the most desultory feeling of all, it is a damned weakness. It is a human aberration. There are no models out there in the world for such a thing other than among humanity. This is a selfish preoccupation developed into a social syndrome.

So don't help your enemies if you can help it, it will turn out bad almost always.

Okay, if you have any doubts, ask around, people will tell you gruesome tales about the way things turned out when they did something god for those they hate. Well may be its not the nicest way to behave for those you call your enemies, but do they care? After all they are enemies, and they have to be true to their calling. They believe that the help they got was a lapse of judgment on your part.

May be they are right. In the first place you had no business to help them. If you did, it is for you to take the consequences.

Yet to me it has always been otherwise. I often do help my enemies, with both money and might. Why, you may ask. Is it because I am the nicest guy around in the world? Hardly my dears, hardly. I couldn't care less if my enemies go to the blazes. I would in fact be so glad that I would give a party to myself in such an event.

So then why do I try to help my foes?

Good question, one that I have often asked myself and the only answer that came out was that I am a bigger devil than they are. My reasons seem highly suspicious in truth. By doing that I am trying to assert my superiority over them in no uncertain manner. I would always make sure that that is the case, that I have them in my power and I am willing to kick them out of trouble just because I can do it.

Just because I can do it.

I would have no illusions about the out come of the event or its future ramifications. I normally am a confirmed misanthrope. I would not be easily deceived by the tricks others are trying to pull over me. In fact, I don't recognize anyone as my enemy at all in the truer sense. I mostly take my opponents as buttresses to bolster my ego. I don't give such a great value for them in my life. They are just a few nonentities to make use of, in my journey through life or to strengthen myself.

So in helping them I am not really acting out of compassion, I am really acting out of a necessity I find in myself, that of needing to distribute largess to others who ever they may be. Its not magnanimity at all. Its just a style of doing things to me.
What if they become stronger and come after me?

Well let the poor slobs try!

Oh my sweet (union) mamas in law

Mothers-in-law are tough nuts to crack, or so the experienced say.

They usually have a kind of a love -hate relationship with their sons in laws. And they would kill for their children, even going to the extent of doing totally away with their sons in laws to save their offspring.

These are all rumors. But as they say, there won't be smoke without fire.

May be this is something inherent in them or in the human race, who knows.

The problem that I am facing now has something to do with what I call mother-in-law complex among some of the staff I have to deal with. They were sworn enemies of one another before my advent to the scene. Initially the wimps used to shed cold tears when speaking of each other.

They hadn't seen anything other than effeminate buffoonery among their compatriots till I arrived and yet even that had made them cry. The moment I appeared they seem to have realized the bigger threat that is around and are now bunching together to hold up each others asses.

Their stupid union also seems to be afraid of me and is egging them on. They usually send scouts to survey how things are going with me. The other day a consumptive idiot came on such a mission and what's more the “single breath' had the audacity to confront me in person.

There are other such imbeciles around on call too. Our own Katrina Kaif is always holding on to a phone just to get a chance to call such despicable specimens into the workplace.( She is Forty, but dresses like she is sixteen and believes she is the heart throb of millions! I can bear conceit in proper places, but a hillbilly girl in her forties showing off like a teenager is too much to bear. Why couldn't the woman wear something decent?)

In short I have many mother in laws around in the place now.

Being the only real guy around (there are other 'guy's' if you want, but they are none better than apology of guy's) I am feared . None of the other members of the effeminate community likes to face me alone. They are probably afraid they would get 'violated' by my silent machismo.

Who knows I may have emasculated the previously male segment of the community by my mere presence among them. Only one lion could rule a pride!
This is hard on the subverted erstwhile males and they have now become converted into mothers in laws and is currently starting a fund to keep themselves fit for the fight against my masculinity.

Of course all this is their imaginations, but what to do, when fear enters submissive minds they can only act in a certain manner.