Thursday, May 10, 2012
A rude awakening
Another year have past and it would be nice to appear wiser. However, does knowing more quotes about life or having the ability to explain our little irrationality of life makes us wiser? What does the word wise hold? Can we really comprehend the true form of wise? Is it with us all this while or is it waiting to be uncovered?
No matter what kind of questions is given, an answer will always follow. Sometimes a good 'i don't know' is the best answer to life's more perplexing problems. Yet, this is not just a matter of getting the answer. It's all about accepting the answers. However, such acceptance will eventually leads us into more acceptance and a complete subjugation to our lives. For when is it a balanced way to accept or to rebel? All this leads to satisfaction. I remember reading somewhere.
"Perfection is hard but satisfaction is harder"
When will we be ever satisfied? If being happy makes you satisfied, how long can you last before seeking more happiness? Is human greed really part of us and crafted into our essence of soul. Without being satisfied, when will it possible for us to show real gratitude to the things around us? The pure existence of nothing may be the answer to this. When we compare nothing to something, people logically choose something to nothing. Yet, there are some in this world who will prefer nothing to something. This might seem irrational but a simple logic of loss aversion fully explains this. After owning something, it becomes a reference point for you to compare with. Losing it will invokes a strong feeling of us as we overweight the feeling of lost more than the feeling of gain. The relative standing matters as well. If there was someone who owns something that is more valuable to the something you have, you might feel envy towards the person. This envy will create some form of dissatisfaction. In that case, will we ever choose nothing over something?
"人因为有希望，才有力量。人一旦没了希望，就只有绝望”
Hope carries a strong feeling and is a blinding light that makes us reach out to it. Hope is pretty much self generated. If you don't feel the beacon of light shining on yourself, you will always be in darkness. Even if friends were to shine the light at you, without opening your eyes, you will not have directions. There is a limit what external influences can do to you. Without a strong internal conviction, the world can be dark even though there might be a thousand suns.
Simple words like satisfaction, hope and acceptance gives weak explanation to our lives. It is within simplicity, there exist complexity that makes life so perplexing. When will one be truly happy? Will we ever be truly happy? If simplicity can't solve the world complex problems, then what can?
Posted by saberX @ 8:12 PM
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