have you tried breaking away from your assiduos acad life and glance at some of your baby pictures?! you were so cute then.. what happened now?!hehe.. just kidding!
when i scanned some of my brownish, others have already tampered colors, dusty, and old chilhood album, i saw one when i was holding a bar of white chocolate, around 10-12 years ago, i felt my mouth watered and tried to ask my mom to buy me one when i go home. she simply said,”no problem, if you have good grades, why not?” how i wish i can dig a time machine from somewhere and ask my mom again for an another bar that i can bring here in the present.
what was that all about anyway? notice it. we may grew old, got to do totally different stuffs, but the common thing is, we still ask for something.
then what? let’s inquire Aristotle what can he say.. considering the three ways of how modes of imitation differ from one another; through 1)means; 2)differences in the object; 3) the manner of imitation.. let’s elaborate and evaluate the case i mentioned above.
like that bar of chocolate which serves to be the object that i desired to have but on different stages of life or age. on one hand, the act of wanting it makes it the manner.
going on.. why was it so hard to ask for that same object now that i’m older? putting aside the financial issues, nowadays, but rather focusing on the first criteria on how immitation varies, the means.
“means” which refers to the aid used to imitate and portray things was the one that deviate examining the situation.
an infant’s only means of expressing his/her self is through crying. he/she cries to let her mommy knew that his/her diaper was full, when he/she does not want to be put inside the crib, and if he/she wants something.
i can’t really remember everything, but perhaps i cried when i asked for that white chocolte that my mom got pity on me and buy me one. for now, my mom would think that i’m too old cry over that chocolate, and that my desire for that was only to satisfy my cravings and nothing more.
anyhow, there are instances that imitations have same objects and manner with the original, but in some other ways they would differ in their means, or they have the same objects and means but used different manner, etc.
in short, if i’m not mistaken, a baby’s cry is more convincing than any other pitiful taunts by teenagers.
i wonder if they were just good actors and actresses that all the while they meant to use their “convincing power”/cries to fool others? hahah!! talking as if i did not pass that stage.
waahh!!we should be careful, “tianaks” can transform into cute, innocent looking babies and cry, for us to be pity on them..hehe!!
