Contented?

Content is a simple word.. Yet it's all encompassing.

Content with the things you do, Content with the life you have now.

It's a word which is relative to one another. Every person will have a different meaning to it. Ask an entrepreneur and he will say he's not content with his current sales. Ask the question to an old shopkeeper and he will say that he's already content with his life and job.
Content is just like a hole. Some are deep and hard to fill, while some are shallow.





To be too contented may lead to a person stalling in his life. Stagnant lifestyle, where everything seems to stop going forward.

Not contented? Then one will always be on the competitive side. Trying to move ahead of time and competition. Fast moving lifestyle where one will keep pushing himself to excel and keep filling the seemingly endless hole.

While being too contented is not good, being not as contented is not alleviating the situation as well. The balance needs to be established to be able to be successful.

I've set my own benchmark for being contented, but it has not been met yet. Someday, I'll attain that goal.

All the best to being contented in whatever you do =)

Save The Earth =)

Ok so I think the whole earth is dying.

Global warming.. Ozone layer hole.. Nuclear plants, which may blow up anytime, all around the world.

I'm not talking about the 2012 Mayan doomsday theory

But a more real and closer to life experience.

Those who don't know, our waters are filled with mercury tainted fishes and organisms.
Why? Pollution, radioactive waste, lab dumps.. All goes into the river, and spreads around.

I am not a fan of fishing from the start, but whaling and killing dolphins excessively? That's a cause of concern.



People should see this. But the Japanese government's propaganda is so powerful, that it made those Japanese folks think that they are hunting dolphins because dolphins are eating too much of their fishes.

And then Japanese under the influence of the propaganda, thinks this way



Which is kind of scary what propaganda can do to you.
They say eating dolphin and whale meat is their tradition. But, dolphins are killed there more for entertainment purposes than for food. It is not even popular within the Japanese community.

Decide for yourself.

Doing something worth

We're always engaged in some activities or another.

Be it, playing games, doing work, studying, etc.

But does the activities that we engage ourselves in value add to our lives?
A simple activity like playing games adds to our intuition and reflexes, more complex activities like studying for some exam in the near future will also value adds what we have studied into our repertoire.


Does these activities value add into the paths we're following?

Many people have the stereotypical mindset that playing games does not add much value, and is just another time-waster. However, it definitely adds more value if we're playing in a competition rather than studying for something we will not pursue.



Within a set time frame, wouldn't doing something that value adds our life more, worth the time? This does not necessary applies fully, for we are definitely not sure what our paths will lead us to in the future, and what we may be doing now that we thought adds value to our lives, may just be well wasted.

We can only guide ourselves to that path, not control. Therefore, it's better logically to get an all round experience in as many things as possible, minimizing the impact it will cause if we failed to venture on the path we want.
But more experience in various things will therefore cause a decline in expertise of our main goal thus, you may be safe from failing the path, but you will not be a better expert in your own field.

It all boils down to no venture no gain, still it's important to think that people may also prefer safety to risk, giving them a stable foothold to fall on.

So, it is all based on your current perception of the various things you do, which adds value to your lives, rather than wasting your life away.

Hope?

Hope can mean a lot of things.

A milestone that we have set for ourselves that we wish to match or even surpass.
A helping hand in times of need.
Milestones that we've set for others is also considered hope.



but all in all, it revolves just around a word : wish

wishing for ourselves to attain something
wishing for someone to help
wishing for someone to achieve something

the feeling of wanting something to happen is embedded in our lives.
"I hope that the bus arrives when I reach"
"Sure hope that I can score high in this test"

But such hopes are worthless, unless you do something about it.

I guess hope, without actions to increase the chances of it happening, is just purely a state of mind that a small part of selfishness resides in.

Whatever you want, you work for it.
Praying and hoping for it to happen will never work out.
All the best in fulfilling your hopes

Stereotypical mind

I've been thinking, are we on the road that we're wanting to go? Or basically following the logical "paths" of the stereotypes of what we want to be, fame? fortune?

I believe that the only time when u are really free on your own path, is when you are still a toddler. Moving, stumbling and prodding stuff around. No one is there to guide you where to move. You are on your own.


However, as we grow up, we begin to expose ourselves to the stereotypes of the world. Wanna be rich? study more on investments, go banking, own business, become a doctor, whatever.
So basically, those who are really keen on being rich and famous would most likely follow this path.

Few have broken these stereotypes and attain what they want. Rags to riches stories are abundant in this world. Not only do they not follow the typical paths, but walked the road less travelled, and attained what they want.

So, shouldn't we break the stereotypes and travel on the path of our own?

The irony here would be that our paths are guided by our mind, and not such a bad habit, but our minds tend to look for patterns. The pattern as referred to over here would be the stereotypes that we are exposed to.

"Many people have walked the path and acquired what they longed for. Maybe I'll give it a go."

So our paths are guided by our minds, and our minds tend to look for stereotypes as role models.
In the end, paths are just stereotypes that many have walked and many have succeeded.

Beginning?

How did organisms come about?

Plants, trees, where do they come from? When did the first seed appear? More importantly, how did it appear?

Many questions and doubts are raised on the beginning of existence, the beginning of everything.

Did God made everything? If that is so, moulding clay figures and breathing life into each of them is how the way things start, where did the clay use to mould come from.
More importantly, where did God come from? Big Bang? Where is his/her real beginning?



Big bang, as said over and over by scores of scientists, seems to be the way how the universe started, too much energy in a spot and bang!
All the matter exploded all over, giving birth to the stars, the planets, the galaxies.
But did they ever stop to think for a while, the concentrated energy, where did that energy come from? Did everything begin from nothing?

Since if everything begin from nothing, I may suppose that we can replicate the occurrence and create something out of nothing?

Well, there is still no evidence to support this hypothesis. And therefore, Big Bang, is still a theory, and God's existence is still debated upon.

However, if we dwell too much about the past, we still must not forget the future.

Most people are thinking and pondering about the Real Beginning and the End of World, but in actual fact, shouldn't they be more concerned about the present?

Time? constant or relative

Time is the same to everyone, yet different to an extent.


Time is embedded within all of our daily lives.
Time to go school? Time for work? Time to have lunch?

Even without time-telling devices, our body also has a clock to tell us when to sleep, when to wake, when to eat and many others.

Ever since the discovery of time, many have dedicated their lives to finding more about this mysterious number that runs our lives.

Time is constant, yet relative.

Every second, minute, hour is constant.. no changes for the past few millenia .
Who came up with that system? Maybe Egyptians came up with it first, or maybe Mayans or even the Chinese. But they all have something in common, they spoke of the time as a constant flow, will not stop or end.

Yet to human perception, it is always relative to their surroundings, feelings. Take off the watches of 2 person, A and B. A will stay in the sun, and B will stay in the pool. Both of them will be standing for 20 minutes.
A will feel that he's been there for almost an hour, while B will think the duration is rather short.
Feelings will cloud our perception and therefore, blur out our own body clock.


The same constant flow that is ever changing to each individual.
Such irony of time will always be present, until we have lost our senses or feelings.
If time will not be different to each individual and stays the same for each of us, will we be void of feelings and senses, therefore not human?

It's quite a simple moral of this, actually.
Feelings is the way that shows we are still human.
And each person's view of the time will always keep us human.
Till the day when time stops, enjoy your days