CET, Luner New Year and the Race to the bottom of the whisky and whine barrel o’ fun

Written in response to: Write a story about someone scrambling on New Year's Eve to fulfil their resolutions for the entire year before the clock strikes twelve.... view prompt

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I cannot stand it either.

The stories. The made up stories.

The lies.

The italicized lies.

The ommitted lies

The lower case lies.

The BOLDFACED lies.

The “strughle”. The “streudel”. The “struggle”.

Scrambled. Scramble. Scrammbled up and served on a silver platter.

One must have a sense of humor for “it” to be “Funny”.


And a race to the top bottoms out rather quickly when founded on shakey grounds.



My apologies. Pardon my “tie-Pohs”. My spelling. Sometimes my inventive spelling gets the best of me. That plus the fact I call it how I see it. And I see it “differently.” I am considered “different”. Chances are. There is a good chance that when you have lived a truth you can handle much worse than the truth.


One step forward, two steps back.

Yes.

Always.


Let’s probe.

Let’s examine.

Let’s test the theory.


What theory?

CET.

Huh?

CET Theory. Critical Egotistical Theory.



To see if you would like to sign up for this class, to see if this class is “for you”. One you would like to learn the material. To apply the material in everyday life.


CET 101 Syllabus:


CET-Critical Ego Theory.

Pre requisite:

Affinity for Law

Affinity for truth.

The ability to ask questions.

The ability to listen.

The ability to hear.

Class Materials:

A Mirror.

A Conscience.

Self-reflection.


Two semester coursework must be completely satisfactorily. Wait list is becoming heavy.


Classes will not be observed on certain holidays to be determined. Please check the school calendar for observances. “Days off are fluid.”


Thus the scrambling begins for inclusion or exclusions.


The Luner, excuse me Lunar New Year (forgot to proof my work, engage spell check)


To share:


Lunar New Year is the beginning of a calendar year whose months are moon cycles, based on the lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar. Although not celebrated in this country, it is featured in the Chinese calendar of the East Asian cultural sphere. (Wk)


The East Asian cultural sphere, also known as the Sinosphere, the Sonic world, the Sinitic world, the Chinese cultural sphere, the Chinese character sphere encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Chinese culture. (wk)


According to academic consensus, the East Asian cultural sphere is made up of four entities: Greater China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Other definitions sometimes include Mongolia, and Singapore, because of limited historical Chinese influences or increasing modern-day Chinese diaspora. (wk)


Diaspora is the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. The scattering. To spread about. The dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity such as language or culture. “the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages” (Randolph Quirk).


The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; “worldwide in distribution”; “the distribution of nerve fibers”, “in complementary distribution”.


Ugh.


Scrambling indeed to ful fil the resolutions before New Year’s Eve. The next New Year’s Eve. By The moon New Year’s Day—resolutions come due? To fill it up. Fill the cup? Fill the glass? Fill the class?


Ugh.


Bingeworthy. And. Cringeworthy.

For sure.


Some glasses. Some classes always are filled up first. And. Fast. It’s a dirty business.


Time is ticking.

If not done on time, for the rest of this year, calendar year, we are, the children will be collectively scr**ed. Swimming in it. Floating in it. Drowning in it.


Saturated.


Telling the truth is so much simpler. Any deal made under the table is bound to konk ya’ on the head when you come out from under. It. The muck, mud and sludge.


Realityville. (Bs) It is a good place to be. A good place to live. Really. When will we collectively let it go and face the truth. As uncomfortable as it may be. There is a good chance that when you have lived a truth. You know it when you see it.


”Sipping ‘round the truth” is just that. Circumambulating round and round and round and round with the tonic of your choice hoping for a different outcome. To avoid the point does not make it go away. Even with a sip, shot, gulp or binge full of episodic indulgences.


To avoid the point. So instead you retreat, inside yourself, inside your head. And think,


“You can’t please everyone so ya’ got to please your self. Are you alright now? Have you learned your lesson well?” Sip some more. Binge some more. Cringe some more.


Start all over again.


Vicious cycle. Resolution dead where you stand. Dead in the sand. When will we ever learn? To take the correct things seriously and ourselves less seriously?


Seriously.


When the truth be told. When the truth is told. It is so. Ugh. So much simpler. Why do we complicate so? Who’s whining now? Who’s wine-ing now?


Perhaps a re-take of CET 101 is in order. Seriously. Grab your mirrors and take a good long look. Whaddya see? ……….


Truth or consequence.


Someone bingeworthy? Someone cringeworthy? A scattering of the someone you are, once were. What do you see? Dispersed? Sometimes when we are distracted by keeping up with the lies we are unable to focus on the truth, the truths.


”Sipping ‘round the truth” (mw). Round and round and round and round. The time. The clock. The time on the clock. Not with Mother Time….Not with Father Time. Trust me. Not one of us is able to cheat Father Time.


Time will tell. It usually does.


We are all able and capable to cheat. In a class, on a test, with a friend, with out a friend.


What it comes down to is how seriously curious are you? To tell the time, when it is time, the time to stay the course of truth and honesty? Around New Year’s Eve, the media use the convenient rope of trope of Father Time as the personification of the previous year (or the “Old”year) who typically hands over the duties of time to the equally allegorical “Baby” New Year.


Time, (in his allegorical form) is often depicted revealing or un veiling the allegorical Truth, sometimes at the expense of a personification of Falsehood, Fraud, or Envy.


This theme is related to the idea of “veritas filia temporis”


Time is the father of Truth.


What time is it? 🕰⏰⏲⏱🧭 No cheating allowed.












January 03, 2023 18:52

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