Cerpen | 2 : Stupidity causes cancer.

A decade ago, I had a friend named Liam. He was 2 years older than I was but very, very matured. He settled in Malaysia few years later but I only had the chance to meet him twice in the latter. It was in Neopets where I first got to know him. There was a line under each of his post, a signature they called it, a tagline that intrigued me, to ask, “hey wut dos it ment by STUPIDITY CAUSE CANCEL”?

The boy explained to me what did it mean, which I guess I had no idea at all back then(?), but I do remember a little bit of the argument. I carry the thought through the years of growing up, and sometimes when I was pissed, there’s one thing for certain, that would pop out in my mind. It is a line, a signature I call it, a tagline that intrigues me, to ask, “ARE YOU STUPID?”

According to Wiki, “Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense.” So tell me now, who the hell on earth has a full tank of intelligence and understanding, with a complete set of evergreen reasons, wit and senses?

Back to Liam. It’s highly agreeable that ‘Stupidity Causes Cancer’. It is like cancer. Or may cause ‘cancer’? Or it is, cancer(?). It doesn’t matter if you have couple of things you are excellent at, because other people would know you’re suck and stupid at other couple of things and it would take you one day, to realize that. J

You just ate something, with a spoon. Then few minutes later the spoon ended up in the sink. Few days later, the spoon was still there. SO WHAT THE FUCK.

The clothes. They are all in a tiny basin or basket or whatever. Why are you so stupid to have it piled up like mountain? Then when the time comes it falls down on the floor and other dim witted people would begin walking on your clothes, and you would never know.

The food. Even when you’re about to starve to death, your lunch box in the refrigerator would remain untouched for weeks. And one day you just got the wit to finally trash it, so yes, touched, but uneaten. So what’s the point?

No awareness. AT ALL? Sometimes people give you the chance to speak, to express, to ask, to do whatever beyond the limit, but that does not mean you have the power to do the same shit again and again and again and again. You have to learn how to stop and when to stop. There is no doubt a limit beyond a certain extend. What does it take, I wonder, to make someone so ignorant and selfish to realize such a simple concept? A bitch slap, perhaps?

So when someone annoys or bothers you and you really really think that he does not joking, then take a deep breath and say it, DO YOU HAVE CANCER? An euphemism for cancerous stupidity. :)