My Hyde Side

Life, as it is truly said, is a continuous learning process, and each day we are alive, the things that we see and that happen to us help give us a better perspective that influence our future decisions. For every man that chooses to pick out salient points from all his experiences, the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom is limitless, and can be evidenced when some time is taken to list them out. When i did so myself in writing this blog, i was amazed to know that i could put down all the points below, especially considering the fact that as a very (ahem) young man, i still have quite a lot of years of learning to go through, and i know for sure i didn't exhaust the points; i only put down what occured to me at the time. All of the points were impressed upon me by life's little experiences, some sober, some good, some darkly humorous, and i feel obliged to share them through this blog (which should reflect my thoughts, anyway). They are, of course, not meant to be authoritativ...

Perhaps it would be only logical for me to make my first post a little about myself. Ok. Here goes. First of all, i have named this blog My Hyde Side partly because it rhymes, and more importantly, because i consider it an opportunity to express myself in a manner that a lot of people who know me well would find to be somewhat alien. Generally i [believe i] am perceived as funny, jovial, fun-loving, happy-go-lucky - basically unserious; here i can show that sometimes i can be pretty thoughtful, contemplative, brooding, angst-filled, or soulful in my private moments, far from the well-known version of me out there. I consider this side of me closer to the essential me than the other. In that sense then, i could say i am not so well known, except perhaps by a few very close friends. That however is not to say that my posts will be bland and uninteresting; my sense of humour is paradoxically as inseparable from me as my darker side. Naturally, i tend to see the funny side of issues in m...