RIFLE RANGE BOY

Why do I always feel that I am constantly in the company of fools? Is it just me or am I not alone? Do I have a psychogical disorder that make me immersed in a sense of grandiosity that look at others as lesser beings? Or is it that I am in the wrong place? I should be in a place where my true potential can be developed to great heights.  Why is it that the people around me are always cock sure of things remotely close to the truth? Why is that I sometimes fall prey to their dogmatic insistence of their viewpoint? Am I too timid and too gullible for my own good?  Well let fools think that they are right. For the feeble minded, making decisions is easy. The more knowledgeable one is, the more he is aware that there are many ways to approach a problem. Just because fools make a ruckus and are loud, it does not them make right. Might does not make right. All these uncertainties are making me go slightly mad... It doesn't pay to be wise in the company of fools. Muhamm...

Back in the 80s, my cousin RR, sister and I all bought similar combs of the same colour and make and promised to keep in forever as a sign of our bond. At that naïve carefree age, we made a pledge that we would keep till end of time as common tool. During about the same time, over the same holiday period, RR and I used to go crazy over the rock band ‘Cheap Trick’. Over and over again, we found intense joy in croaking in our untrained hoarse vocal cords to the song ‘If you want my love, you got it’ till it hurt and felt so good about it. The song used to be a regular feature on Radio RAAF Butterworth those days. 30 years after that eventful holiday, when I last met up with RR, I happened to mention about the comb and the song to him. And what do you know? RR had absolutely no recollection of the song that we used to sing. In fact, he asked; “Cheap who?” Do not even bother about the comb! And there I was keeping the blue plastic comb in pristine condition. Well, something mean more to s...