Birds of the Same Feather are the Same Birds

Those lines still haunt me.

Three years ago, back when I was still in high school, the time when I'm the first person to be fetched by the school bus at 5:20 am, the radio has always been tuned in at 90.7 Love Radio early in the morning. And there's this small guy who keeps on telling twisted yet funny words of wisdom every goddamn break. One of those "wise words" is the very title of this blog.

I've always thought it was a joke that's supposed to make fun of the original one: Birds of the same feather flock together.

Well, it may have been very obvious for us to notice that it actually applies to real life. But do the same-feathered birds really flock together? I mean, do they always do that? Isn't it possible that some bird would stray away and cross the road less traveled?

This kind of epiphany brings challenge to the words of wisdom - a transgression to the archetypes within human history and comprehension.

For one thing, Birds of the same feather are the same birds was not supposed to be a joke; it was supposed to sound stupid.

But then, it kind of boggles you that some bird may just have been "feathering" up all this time. That's when the joke comes in to play with the truth.

Jokes are meant, without the joker fully aware of it. Unless he's a Fool (in a Shakespearean context).