Meet em half way

Me - "$x"
Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$4x"

Bargaining.
Sometimes called an art. Has been known to cause some bloodspills in some cases, I heard.
Sometimes called anarchy.

Me little head suspects that bargaining is supposed to create the so called win win situation.
...caveat being involved parties are perfectly aligned and satisfied with the transaction.

Does this ever happen in real life? Seldom I suspect.

What about monopolies? They apparently got what we need...In a world where Adam Smith's invisible hand seemingly rules...We are fucked. Come to think of it, Mr. Smith's invisible hand seems to be showing us the middle finger.

What about the fine print?
Why oh why does fine print exist? I want to know which baastich company was the first to do this in their print ad!!! Anyone out there knows? wikipedia does not seem to know either.
We are fucked!

Freebies?
...
...

yeah - why not. So long as I have an option to not fork out more money to you Mr. Salesman!

Freebies = Cognitive dissonance

Me - "$x"

Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$4x"

Me - $2x

Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$3x"

Me + Adam Smith walks away waving our invisible hand

Here we go round and round

How often do we sit down for a smoke and think about the past, the present and the future? Remembering stuff. Take stock of what happened an hour ago. Two hours ago. Depending on the urge.

I do, most of the time - talking about the thinking part, not the smoking part.

Yes, I am a smoker. Addicted to it for more than 20 years now. We all know its bad but can we ever stop. For those who did - I salute you!

...but i digress.

My blogs here are about my thoughts. My feelings towards practically everything. My view of the world. It can really be summed up to be one general concise statement - There is always two sides to EVERYTHING! I mean EVERYTHING! Hence the title of the blog.

Duality means a lot of things to me. Good and bad. Happiness and sadness.
Having money or none.
Winning and losing.
Being single or getting married.
Eating or fasting.
Playstation or Xbox.

Starting ...and stopping.

Comparing...Understanding - try to anyways.

When I am doing this, I sometimes wonder if the extremes do meet in the middle. I mean there has to be some sort of balance right? If we can find it - that median, that balance - how will we feel? Will we even know it?

I don't know :-)

I don't know! I don't know! I don't know!
Now here's a concept - What if what we don't know.... IS the median.
All things being equal, when we are on some crossroad, unable to make a decision, wouldn't we be like in the middle? Wouldn't we be ...in some sort of balance? Imbalance?

Indecisiveness. Fickle minded.
Gays. Lesbians.
Bill Clinton.

Batman and Robin
Batman and The Joker

Me and my smokes

me showing you my middle finger!
you showing me your middle finger!

...ooh and let's not forget...Confusion!

Perfect.