Contemporary

Just another random one

They say the sea has plenty of fishes when you tell them you are desperate or heartbroken and whatnot. So they SAID, we HEARD.

But I guess human nature is always natural (duh…), in a way that we always think on the surface first. Just say it first and only then when the consequence of the otherwise occurs, we find another explanation to excuse ourselves. Either that, or we are just constantly deluged with overwhelming positive hopes and optimism at first and later on when things start to look bleak, we’ll just cassually go “this is tough, maaaaan… shit happens-lar! dammit! Sputid-f**k!”

*drifts back to the current issue*… Okay, okay… So we heard already. And that line has been over-used since the day that “brilliant someone” created it. She* must’ve love fishing and on the day her partner ran away from her, she must’ve told her best mate that she wanted to go fishing (actually) because that very day the sea had plenty of fishes. However, the fact that her mate misinterpreted whatever she’d had said and started spreading that news and that following line amongst other mates, and y’know.. when things go spreading verbally, ie second-handly, third-handly, etc., they tend to get more disfigured and distorted. Until finally everyone got that positive idea stucked in their head, thus the overzealous use of that phrase… up to this very day.
*I did not use “she” as delibrately to think that person’s a female. Could have been a man who broke off with his partner as well, y’kno?

Try telling your ah-ma or ah-yi (auntie) “Auntiiie, I am heartbroken leh. I just broke up with Ah Beng-beng leh! Boh lang ai wa liaoooo (nobody wants me already)” then they’ll reply… “Newer mind one lah! So many fish-fish in the seeea! Go catch anarde’ one lorrr…!”

What would Hot&Spicy say?
Indeed, there are many fishes in the sea. Then again, there are as many fisherpersons catching the fishes as well. More unfortunately, with the massive pollution nowadays, alotta fishes get sick, then die and then drift away themselves, and some just get sick in their heads and make the person who gets it sicker than ever.

Now, people. use that and spread that around and maybe in 20 years time, I will be quoted as “the brilliant one” by another writer/blogger who will also be a brilliant person to come up with some perky statement or analogy. Weeeee!