#18

Pluma azul.

Blue pen.

"There is a right way to talk, walk, dress, order, write, wear your hair, breathe, and rub your superiority into other people's faces. You shouldn't be yourself even before your closest friends, because behaving in any way other than this one is VULGAR."

THE BOOK OF EXPERTS: "You ought to be selfish with your time, because everybody else is. You ought to be selfish with your stuff, because they are the most important things you have. You ought to care about what others think about you, because your are a social being and without them you'd be nothing. You ought to have good grades, get into a good college, get a good job with a good salary and have a family that emulates perfection. Your integrity is worth nothing in comparison to the society you serve, and happiness consists of doing things THE RIGHT WAY. You have no right to fail..."

Simon: "hey Cariño, the experts say we're wrong. They say our way of living isn't the right way."

Me: "well... Has the right way made the experts happy so far?"

Simon: "They say it has..."

Me: "and... aren't they lonely?"

God save us from ever becoming experts at anything.