Consensus, Paramount, Pragmatic, Deleterious, Brittle, Meticulous

The Super Hero

This a story of an intrepid superhero who feared almost nothing. He endured through many difficult task to save humanity over and over again. His vitality and energy seemed to never wane. His super powers made assimilation into the human life impossible. Even though he loved his assiduous duty as protector of mankind and the people, he held them reprehensible of most of their problems and wished he got a thank you every once in while from the ingrates. After his dogged effort of saving them from themselves over and over again, the super hero thought maybe he should take a break. He was tired of the gratuitous violence, sex, and use of drugs that plagued mankind and their obsession with the superficial and shallow. Sometimes he felt that the end of the human race was inevitable until he aquired new enlightening knowledge about the humans he loved that made him fall in love with them all over again. Such a complex race he thought to himself. Just when he thinks he has a conception of the race, they do something to surprise him. How capricious and unpredictable these humans are he though to himself. While sitting in a cloud in his profound thoughts about the humans were truncated when he heard arguing from below. The arguing then turned into screams that were compelling him as an inveterate rescuer to get involved. He could not let down the people who idealize him and consider him to be omnipotent and all-powerful. He looked down from his cloud and saw people scattering. What caught his attention the most was conflagration engulfing the city. His impression was that the large fire was a terrorist attack. The super hero never liked dealing with the enmity between terrorist, the people and the government. He jumped down from his cloud to see if he could solve the rancorous relationship. The people rushed to him and told him a suicide bomber exploded himself in a place for family gatherings. The hero looked around at the gruesome scene as men gathered to pick up pieces of bodies of men, woman, and children.
To Be Continued...

Rambo

In the lowest level of the psychiatric prison lies the men guilty of the most heinous crimes. The biggest of guards was afraid of these people because of the malice in their heart. Their putrid behavior caused them to be drugged and locked down constantly. The worse and most notorious prisoner was kept in the last cell. They called him Rambo because of his pugnacious behavior and his willingness to fight all the time even when drugged. He often would disparage and vilify the guards with harsh belittling statements. The prisoner only showed propriety to his psychiatrist. It took a long time to get the prisoner to trust him and tame his fractious personality. The psychiatrist got the prisoner to show equanimity to him because he took the most time to understand him and did not condemn him for the actions that got him in the prison. After observing him for one year he found the prisoner has a misconception of reality. Apparently he thought he was a character of his favorite TV show Supernatural where he must fight demons and other devilish creatures to save the world. All of the malfeasance he did rooted from this perception of reality. Looking at the world from the prisoner’s perspective, the psychiatrist infiltrated his reality by making the prisoner believe he was a demon hunter like him and from then on the doctor was allowed to get in close proximity to the prisoner called Rambo.

Obdurate, Obstinate, Tenacity, inconsequential, tenous, trivial, apathetic, indifferent

The Island

On one random Saturday morning, 16 year old Jacob checked his mail and to his surprise he found an envelope covered in many strange colors. Jacob opened the envelope to find four plane tickets to a remote vacation island for himself and his family. He wondered if they had entered some kind of contest and won. A vacation seemed very favorable and auspicious since it was the summer and he had no other activities to do. He ran to his parents to sanction the family trip. He knew they would approve because it was a opportunity to spend quality time with the children that wants to spend less and less time with them. However his parents were more suspicious and wary about the mysterious letter. His father told him “What if it’s just a ruse to get our money or steal our identity? I don’t know son. I have to do a little more checking up on this.” the father ambivalent feelings showed in his expression as he looked at his disappointed son. He wanted to go on a trip and spend time with his family but he was uncertain of how genuine the free trip is.
The next day a tall skinny man dressed a suit with the same colors of the enveloped stood on the opposite side of the peephole Jacob was looking through. As he knocked on the door Jacob ran to get his father. His dad answered the door and invited the strangely dressed man into his home. Then the tall man said “ I am here to see if you’ll accept our offer to the all expense paid vacation.” The father then asked “Why are you giving us this. We did not enter any contest.” At that moment his daughter Jenny put her head down which the father noticed. “ Jenny did you have anything to do with this?” Jenny raised her head and slowly nodded. The tall man then started to describe the vacation island embellishing his story with descriptions of the beautiful weather, view and fun activities. He concluded by saying, “I assure you this trip is no stratagem to get your money. To assure you this is no coup to get your money we’ll offer you money to take the trip. You see the vacation island is a newly discovered island and we want to make it a hot vacation spot. It would only be fair to pay you to be the first to explore the beautiful island.” The father turned to his wife and they whispered to each other for a few minutes thinking deeply about the consequences and rewards because they did not want to make a arbitrary decision based on impulse alone. They turned to the tall man and said “It’s a bit spontaneous but we will accept the offer.”
When they got of the plane and arrived on the beautiful island, a man wearing ostentatious clothing of diamond cufflinks, an expensive suit, and gold Rolex watch gave the family a cordial and friendly greeting speaking to them with very florid language that sounded very pleasing to the family’s ears.
The father was becoming more sure that this whole disingenuous because of the obvious great amount of money spent on just the greeting process. The family along with five other families were escorted to an ornate dining hall with an elegant crystal chandelier dangling from the ceiling. The mother was amazed at the wood tables with detailed carvings they had sat at. When the family was finishing up the exquisite meal, the skinny man that had invited them to the island stood in front of everyone and made a poignant speech about family that obviously touched the parents and even their children. Jacob was so pulled in the speech that it took him a while to realize how effusive his mother had gotten. Her somewhat loud crying started to ruin the moment for him so he surreptitiously snuck away from his parents to explore the island.
To be continued