in the space of a week we go from the craziness surrounding the public ‘investment’ into the news, gossip and views surrounding the Oscar Pistorius case [where everyone had an opinion, a judgement, a Barry Bateman courtroom tweet to retweet and an emotional or political response] to the 3am [in South Africa] screening of the Academy Awards Oscars ceremony which is a few minutes away from starting…

there seems to be a lot of similarity between the two in terms of the global appeal and interest despite for the most part having nothing to do with the actuality of events [both involving people we watched from a distance and were entertained by in various ways]

there is a lot of make-up and bells and whistles and smoke screens and both ‘shows’ have a sense of mystery to them – a question of what is real and what is being presented to the cameras…

there is also a great deal of difference between the two – the one is about a whole bunch of stuff that really doesn’t matter at all and the other is about something that matters so deeply in so many different ways.

i think a lot of life is being faced with the dilemma of trying to figure out the difference between those two things as they appear in front of you… what really really matters, and what doesn’t really matter at all…

and which of these will you give your attention, time and resources to?