An interesting thought came to mind while i was hanging with Chao just now: The Theory of Dealing With Shit Pple. Essentially this theory is probably 90% groundless, and 10% pure common sense. We shall see how this all links up.

Everyday, we see shit people. In school, at work, in army camp, at home. They are everywhere, always hindering your own progress, and pissing you off. If you cannot put up with their shit, then u get frustrated. U blog about, rant about it during hangs, write to Straits Times forum. If u can handle their shit, then it's good. It means you know how to deal with them, and this makes u a better person.

Basic Idea: There is no absolute shit person. A person's shit-ness is not absolute, meaning A is shit and B is not. Rather, it's a relative quality, like A is shit-er than B. Because of this relative quality, A will think that B is shit, but essentially, B is just shit-er than A. That's all. Thus i shall make a very daring conclusion:

"Everyone is shitty (ie has some form of shit-ness in them). It's just how shitty a person is. " - Chang, 01/04/2007

So u right there reading this, U ARE SHIT! So am i. And everyone else in the world.

So we've established the fact tt everyone is shitty, and the existence of relative shitness. Now u see, among a group of friends, there's bound to be the one tt's inexplicitly thought of as the shittiest one. He's the butt of all jokes, he's got the lowest interpersonal skills, do all the wrong things at the wrong time etc. And best of all, he doesnt realise the SHITuations he has gotten himself into.

His friends will always come hang out with him, learn of his antics and learn how to deal with him, thereby improving their "deal with shit pple" skills. Whereas he will be the only one dishing out the shit for everyone to feed off him. And he has no way to improve his shit handling skills too, for everyone else less shitty than him. There's nothing much for him to learn and up level.

So the only way for the shitty guy to get out of the rut, is to encounter someone tt's shittier than himself. And then he shall learn to deal with tt person's shit, and gaining level to handle future SHITuations. And he will see how such SHITuations occur, and thus learning to avoid commiting these grave mistakes.

There's a high possibility that someone is so shit that, they actually believe that being VERY shitty is a normal phenomenon. Which is not as i've mentioned. And they are oblivious to the SHITuations that people are commiting. And so, they learn nothing. They continue to frolick in the bottom of the Shit ladder. That's not good.

The objective is to climb up the shit ladder, so that we can handle all forms of shit pple. And this is achieved by having someone who is shittier than u, so u can practise off him. Because u guys are friends, there's more chance of you learning than flaring up when he throws some shit at you.

Ok im getting really groggy now. I must sleep. Maybe i will continue this theory of mine. Probably re-write it.