I wonder sometimes if I have irrevocably lost the ability to trust someone at first sight, that intrinsic goodness within that makes you believe that everyone else must be good at heart as well. All I see is potential deception, people with walls all around, so it's a rare treat to find people who are so pure that it would probably blind someone who views the world without rose tinted glasses. You know who you are, buddy, and may you have a wonderful and safe trip.

Is it possible to be coldly logical without being reduced to cynicism? Is it possible to look upon someone who believes the best of people in general without a little contempt and a wry smile? Probably not on both counts, which is why I think of myself as a ticking, cynical time bomb about to be handed to some poor, unsuspecting male under the guise of a good "wife material". I wouldn't want to get married if I had the choice, simply because I couldn't bear to be the cause of such misery for another person, a nice person, who probably didn't deserve it.

On a less self-absorbed scale, does anyone else think the end is neigh with all these natural disasters? I sat chatting with a friend on sunday and suddenly the ground began to shake with that all too familar yet heart jolting movement of the ground beneath your feet. I can't admit that despite acting calm and nonchalant I do start wondering if it's all coming to an end before our eyes now and we're too caught up with ourselves to know it. A fitting end to a self-absorbed race.