silent alarm

it's funny how seemingly "random thoughts" (which i sometimes attribute to God) can have so much meaning behind if you look. that's the way the mind works sometimes: something so complex - that you probably couldn't even begin to think up consciously - can lie just under the surface.

on another note, there has been yet another fire alarm here at my condo. seems someone is quite trigger happy. that's twice in just this morning and at least 5 times since monday. what's wrong with those people? i seriously hope it's not some sort of prank. apparently it cost my school $300 per fire alarm pull, back near the end of the year when some people thought it would be funny to pull the alarm halfway through second period 4 times in one week. inconvenient.
i think about what my building must look like on the outside. i mean, the alarm's in here, and inside the building, it's loud and frenzied. for some other people maybe. for me it's just bloody irritating, because i know it's probably another jumpy chinese woman who pulled it out of panic or someone with horrendous cooking skills. but i think for everyone else outside, onlookers, they see nothing more than the normal, shiny, whitewashed walls of the condo and its green roof.
i think that's what people nowadays, especially us Christians, are resembling. clean and shiny on the outside, alarming on the inside.

EDIT: 3 times since this morning, 6 times this week so far.