I think people, in general--whether they admit it or not, have this need to compartmentalize people into generalized ideas. Because it is convenient. Generally, as human beings, we like to put people in boxes and label them in a shelf that is our heads. We have preconceived notions about what people inside these boxes will turn out to be, what they like, how they go about in a relationship, how promiscuous they are, what type of SMS messages they like sending. While it is true that we all know that people are different, encountering different circumstances since their day one, we think that pretty much people are all the same.

I just find it funny at how mundane my boxes are. I have a box for people who wear pointed yellow pumps in the train, or people who baby talk in the fx, or drunk men in the bus. I put these people in boxes because it is more convenient for me to retell their stories in my head--not that the idea of retelling people's stories is everyday-normal.

So here are a few boxes in my head. Hasty, albeit, but boxes in my head nonetheless.

1. Boys who studied in a secular all boys school since prep until college until masters. Yes, those boys. I was explaining my relationship choices to a friend, too long ago for me to remember, how I choose a complicated way to deal with the ex/future boyfriend (whichever way you wanna look at it) but it always feel that it's hard for him to understand mad-love even when I present it to him point blank. And then it struck me, he belongs in this category. I have this preconceived notion that boys like these have secluded mental capacity to handle big issues like abortion, homosexuality, even the way to love the weather. I feel as if these boys are too safe, too storybook, too average. Most of them have a very safe way in going about with politics, authority and random things which involve growing some balls. They always seem to be alpha-male bloated with no real balls for issues like a bumbling President, crossing the EDSA traffic, and standing up to authority.
   
2. Girls who studied in the province, from elementary to high school, and then studied in a secular college. Take your pick from the heavily secular colleges that you know: San Beda, UST, St. Paul University, and among the many other ultra-religious colleges in the University Belt, in Taft, in wherehaveyou. Most of them, if not all, have a romanticized idea of love. Pocket-book love stories if I might say. They have an idea that the boys they must be attached to are knight in shining armors who will never leave them behind while walking in the mall, tugging their hands, ball and chain included. I have a friend, let's call her V, she is the only person I know who proves to be an exception and I adore her. Except she still has this idea, on most days, that boys must be perfect gentlemen who must wait for you to get your taxi, or that boys should never hit you back--despite the fact that you hit them first, and hard.
3. Drunk people in the train/bus/fx. We are always weary of these kind. I know it's not just me, but when I encounter a drunk person in a public utility vehicle, I immediately generalize them for sex-deprived manyaks who will grab your tits the moment the opportunity is presented. When in truth, some of them are just problematic. Not really sex-deprived. Not all of them are all assholes. They are just deprived of their sobriety at the moment that sitting beside them feels uncomfortable.
4. The ugly vamps wrapped around an American while walking down the street. Pok-pok. Are just in it for the money, stupid. does the most fascinating things with muscle control. *ahem*
5. Bank Tellers. I think that their beauty is indirectly proportional to their niceness/bitchiness. The prettier they are, the bitchier they become. So I always pray I get serviced by the less pretty of the bank teller bunch, they are always so nice and personable and decent in dealing with people compared to the pretty, snow-white kind whose hair are always in place.

I know, don't go and start telling me about how hasty generalizations are fallacious or how in Philo1 they will discuss that it is bad to hastily generalize people because there will always be a few rule breakers, or that assumptions are the mother of all fvck-ups. But I know you do it. And I am just as guilty as you and the next guy. And I cannot change, because I am but human with human needs for convenience.

So what are the boxes in your head?

on other news:

(the banalities)


Ø Manny Pacquiao was rushed to the hospital for Gastroentritis. *oh dear, LIKE I erffing CARE!!!*
Ø i did not go to class today
Ø angelica panganiban's parents does not like carlo aquino. *oh the random b*llsh*t of Philippine showbusiness*
Ø Israel blasts Beirut airport for 2nd day
Ø there had been 47 landslides in Baguio already

♥ tomorrow is a Saturday
♥ sugarhouses and myself made me a new lay-out! wuuupieee...!
♥ it's ABEL QUINTOS' birthday today.
♥ I MISS him. saw too many people kissing on TV. couldn't help but miss my crazy boy.
♥and his mom cooked him Spaghetti.