Last Friday I decided to take a breather and free myself from my usual tight schedule of studying and been broke. I went to visit a friend which introduces me to more friends.
We had a blast, it was wonderful… I got a bit irritated an uncomfortable when one of my friends’ friend’s girlfriend started taking pictures of us. And my reason is- she did not ask and some how you feel violated when someone just surprises you by snap shooting at you holding a glass and not posed.
I am one of those people who are picky when it comes to taking pictures (you them people who believe a person has a good side of their face or body for a snap shot). I’m not really photogenic but I surely love the camera when used by me or agreed to be taken a picture.
Some people see no harm in just randomly taking pictures forgetting that we come from different worlds and what you find “cool” might be the opposite to me….lol.
Anyway… here’s a killer – still same place, we were having Pizza and one of the guys says he remembers the pizza place before being called Romans as Caesars and I say ya me too… then this other mack tunes us a story that you probably also wont believe if you know history and do a bit of reading . I tell you, I felt like asking him to keep quiet because I couldn’t stand watching the hole he was digging for himself but fortunately for him there was no historian to dispute him nor anyone entertained his story.
Ok, here’s the story- he said that its actually amazing how Shakespeare created Julius Caesar into reality (my eyes widened and my ears opened up)…that now people believe that Caesar was actually real… after a long pause I looked at him and slowly said “ but he really DID exist” lol. He immediately got up on a high horse and started convincing everyone about Shakespeare’s characters. I set the in silence wonder to myself if he was not confusing Romeo and Juliet with Caesar or maybe just maybe because Shakespeare wrote a tale about Caesar and Brutus now he thinks it was all a “story”. I internally smiled and kept quiet but a lot of questions ran through my mind in trying to justify this guy’s thinking and beliefs fighting my intelligent nerves from judging and assuming ignorance (what about Pharaohs? Cleopatra? Pompey? Rome? They all didn’t exist- Gawd and the oak leaves crown too!?? The statues of Caesar? The many written books? The crowning of Cleopatra in Egypt? Cleopatra’s son Julian? The death of Caesar by 23 stabbings? Lol… no no no).
He got me thinking about Caesar’s arrogance, remarks and principles: “I came; I saw; I conquered” veni, vidi ,vici in Greek (lol)
Had he done that today, I would for surely have said he was playing guy fox (April’s fool). I tried grabbing his attention so to look at him in the eye but as he was talking I could not meet his eyes… so I stay wondering and worried that he may have missed out knowing one of the greatest histories that happened in reality before Shakespeare's play
We had a blast, it was wonderful… I got a bit irritated an uncomfortable when one of my friends’ friend’s girlfriend started taking pictures of us. And my reason is- she did not ask and some how you feel violated when someone just surprises you by snap shooting at you holding a glass and not posed.
I am one of those people who are picky when it comes to taking pictures (you them people who believe a person has a good side of their face or body for a snap shot). I’m not really photogenic but I surely love the camera when used by me or agreed to be taken a picture.
Some people see no harm in just randomly taking pictures forgetting that we come from different worlds and what you find “cool” might be the opposite to me….lol.
Anyway… here’s a killer – still same place, we were having Pizza and one of the guys says he remembers the pizza place before being called Romans as Caesars and I say ya me too… then this other mack tunes us a story that you probably also wont believe if you know history and do a bit of reading . I tell you, I felt like asking him to keep quiet because I couldn’t stand watching the hole he was digging for himself but fortunately for him there was no historian to dispute him nor anyone entertained his story.
Ok, here’s the story- he said that its actually amazing how Shakespeare created Julius Caesar into reality (my eyes widened and my ears opened up)…that now people believe that Caesar was actually real… after a long pause I looked at him and slowly said “ but he really DID exist” lol. He immediately got up on a high horse and started convincing everyone about Shakespeare’s characters. I set the in silence wonder to myself if he was not confusing Romeo and Juliet with Caesar or maybe just maybe because Shakespeare wrote a tale about Caesar and Brutus now he thinks it was all a “story”. I internally smiled and kept quiet but a lot of questions ran through my mind in trying to justify this guy’s thinking and beliefs fighting my intelligent nerves from judging and assuming ignorance (what about Pharaohs? Cleopatra? Pompey? Rome? They all didn’t exist- Gawd and the oak leaves crown too!?? The statues of Caesar? The many written books? The crowning of Cleopatra in Egypt? Cleopatra’s son Julian? The death of Caesar by 23 stabbings? Lol… no no no).
He got me thinking about Caesar’s arrogance, remarks and principles: “I came; I saw; I conquered” veni, vidi ,vici in Greek (lol)
Had he done that today, I would for surely have said he was playing guy fox (April’s fool). I tried grabbing his attention so to look at him in the eye but as he was talking I could not meet his eyes… so I stay wondering and worried that he may have missed out knowing one of the greatest histories that happened in reality before Shakespeare's play
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