4 posts tagged “philosophy”

I think I need to constantly remind myself not to be too result focused in life, in everything that I do. More often than not, I always get drawn into the mindset that just because I spent most of my time working on some shit-assed project or some mind boggling question in the tutorial sheet, it should translate to good grades at the end of the semester. Law of social transaction.

I keep forgetting that there's always the intangible - the pride in doing something that no one else can achieve, the sense of accomplishment, and most importantly, the learning journey. Perhaps that in itself can already satisfy the other end of the effort-result equation. I ought to learn to focus on that more rather than get drawn into the net of the system. While pragmatic and efficient, I personally it turns us into ugly ugly people who begin to lose focus of who we really are. One day we're going to look back and regret, and I don't wanna do that.

Sometimes it is not what we are faced with that scares us deeply, but the unknown that might happen to us as a result that is truely frightening. In life, people are such that they are more comfortable in the confines of what is obvious and observable to them, and when this is taken away, uncertainty, doubt and despair kicks in. Even in madness, the mind retreats to a place that protects it from further trauma. This probably stems from the belief that we are unable to have control of anything except our mind and bodies, hence this need to exert some form of control, or autonomy.

What if one day we discover that we are but insignificant in this world? just a tiny speck of dust that gets blown away when the wind comes?

I really admire people who write well. This article totally made me feel 'wow!' after reading it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us

-Marianne Williamson