boo

i attended my literary stylistics tutorial today
and we were examining this Shakespeare poem
and a passage from somewhere..
here goes abit of it..

He was most himself when he was alone, or working hard and mechanically at the factory.

so my lecturer was asking us
wad was special or significant abt that sentence
and noone said anything..
i didnt cos i couldnt identify wad was special
or what it could imply in terms of linguistics.

i've realised i don't question much..
just take information fed to me quite abit.
thought i have become more critical these years,
as i've been questioning stuff i read.
but such a simple question..
and there i am,
unable to figure out what the basic assumptions,
what the implications of such a simple sentence were.
i think it's the education i've been put through,
taught from young never to question,
but just take things as they are.
except when u dont understand something,
you'll have someone drive their info into ur head.
that's all.
but the theatre studies programme in nus has taught me alot
ive learnt to question,
not take things at face value.
there are pple who are still insistent on the ultimate truth,
in the binaries of good n bad, etc.
im not saying it's wrong,
i don't think it's wrong..
but i think people shouldn't be closed to ideas
and should learn to listen more.
i'm trying to listen more.
but my mouth shoots off quite fast.
i'm learning.

on another note,
some people are able to piss me off with one comment.
u know, the world doesnt revolve around u n ur narrow-minded ideas.