Perspective
jon laa wrote on June 23rd, 2009, 1:18 am
Impoverished imagination, a myopic view of the world.
I probably cannot give a definite, confident, single-line answer to anybody who asks why I write/blog. Probably because I hadn’t given enough thought about it and also because I could not explain why I feel better after writing.
One thing I realised sometime back was that writing helps me construct my thoughts, sort out information like how drawing a mind map helps others. Unfortunately, or not, a mind map never worked for me. Because of how I draw relations between information by writing, I find myself rewriting chunks of text very often, I guess that may explain my love for history.
The closest answer I have to my purpose of writing is I write to explain to myself. The longer my entries, the less I understand, the more effort required for me to get around it.
I also write to justify myself, you may want to know that.
Points to what I think, believe in, that others should know,
1) happiness and depression exists on two different spectrums. Meaning, happiness and depression can coexist and they don’t belong to extreme ends of a single spectrum.
2) One should be himself instead of attempting to please others. Reason being when you deliberately, make a choice to please others, you are making a deliberate choice to displease others - putting in effort to be unappreciated. If you were to remain yourself, you displease others but that’s all you deal with.
3) The limitless choices we have creates more dissatisfaction. The most understood concept to illustrate my point would be the concept of opportunity cost, when we have more choices we incur more opportunity cost. Also, level of expectation escalates with choices, which somewhat decreases the probability of reaching contentment, leading to dissatisfaction.
4) Opinions will always differ but there is no need for agreement and one’s opinion should not be inflicted upon others. However, there’s always something to bring away.
5) Contentment and happiness only comes if you allow it to, live your life within a manageable fishbowl.
6) Depression resolvable by suicide is not a problem, depression unresolvable by suicide is.
7) (Overactive) imagination increases odds, and is the key, to success, being ordinary does not bring one too far.
8) The absence of perfection does not justify the impossibility of having perfections.
9) Great, excessive expectations lead to depression only if you can’t deal with failure.
10) There’s never discontentment if you count your blessing. Or like how rilke put it - “if your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.” Life is made beautiful for us.
11) We draw our strength from failures, not success.
12) Do not expect yourself to understand one’s problem at all, we are made different even within our similarities. Even more so when you completely do not any experience or understanding of their trade.
I’ll end off with two questions,
1) if you think we are in a forward technology progression, do you care to explain why technology from centuries past remains unexplained?
2) Each time you complain men are lusty, sexual creatures, as if women are not, who do you think they are doing it with?