Friday, February 09, 2007

Fire vs Paper



Some things can never be kept a secret.

In fact, many secrets cannot be kept. It will all be out the moment a second human being knows about it.

No matter how much the human being promise you that they will keep it a safe secret, will bring it to the gave with him/her etc etc... the next moment, the whole town knows about it... Well kept indeed.

As the chinese saying goes, paper can never wrap around the fire.

But if you look at it, no such people around, no rumors will spread and inturn, no juicy gossips will happen. And being a human, we all love a good juicy gossip!

Often, the rumor will go from true, to spice-up truth, to half-true, to all-false as it moves from people to people. Amazing stuffs!

For example...

A tells B "Hey! secret! Jack had hot sex with Jill"(Truth)

B tells C "Aye! Secret! Jack & Jill had been having a affair and lotsa sex!"(Half-Truth)

C tells D "Wow! Secret! Jill is pregnant with Jack's baby!"(All-False)

D tells E "Ha! Someone caught Jack & Jill fucking in a carpark, and apparently, Jill is pregnant and Jack refuse to own it!"(Where did that came from??)

Wow, amazing chain of stories, no?

So I was not suprise when I start hearing things flying all over the place and sometimes are very far from the actualy truth.

Photo : Rock & Roll on!!!

1 comment:

Keevy - 小明® said...

The bottomline that they want to convey is Jack and Jill did went up the hill! But with a enormous amount of spices added. LOL