For the Love of My Neurons

How and why do we have to put up with people who survive, thrive and procreate by feeding on human neurons? I mean literally. Have you ever been in a spot where you are stuck on a dinner table, with a neuron-eater next to you? Or even worse, have you ever been careless enough to agree to go alone on a dinner with such a character, for the sake of politeness when everyone else candidly or pragmatically refused? Well! If you did, I hope you learned the lesson, though the hard way, and don't you worry, there are plenty of us who have learned it your way!

You innocently agree to such tete-a-tete's thinking its all right to have trivial and benign conversations at dinners. Its cool. But things take a brain-numbing turn when 'how have you been' turns into a monologue-ish recitation of a really truly boring sounding autobiography. You start with gripping-sounding, out-of-the-world, 'are you kiddin me!?!?', 'Is that right?!?', 'No way!!' or a Elaine-ish 'Get out!!!'; but move on to a mundane 'Oh really?!?', 'I see!' or a simple 'ha!'..Trust me, such subtle shift in your choice of words bears no effect or notice to the neuron-eaters. Thats the only time the big huge American burgers come to the rescue - you stuff your mouth with em and hope that it will aid in shutting off your brains too to the predator. It doesn't. You embark on a wishful thinking journey, imagining gouging out the guts, kidneys and the leg-piece out of the predator. That doesn't happen either. You would invariably have to stretch or test the limits of your endurance and take pride in that, if you will.

Oh society! Who devised the concept of you 'oughta be "nice" to everyone' and proliferated it across civilizations and geographies? Why can't I just tell someone that he's a sucker if he's one! Why can't I choose to leave him on the dinner table to hang out with the lady bartender who can talk about incredibly interesting cocktails and scotches. I guess such is life! This had to be a conspiracy of some incredibly intelligent sadist who took immense pleasure in people's hidden pain. Someone who enjoyed watching normal people turn into retards and retards turn into rulers.

Such is life indeed!