I've slummed back to my usual odd self of bumming around.

Mapled for a night and watching clicknetwork.tv on another. Two unproductive night yet I felt guiltily satisfied. What an irony.

I even made a promotional fan-video of my Maplestory Adventures.

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A friend once asked how is it that successful people are able to get out of the comfort zone and stay in the circle where all the magic happens.



Matt's reply was that these successful people are so sick so sick so sick so sick so sick of living comfortable because when they ventured out and truly experience the magic moments, they will never ever ever want to go back to the comfort zone. Because it's the comfort zone where nothing really gets done.

I do agree to a large extend to Matt's wise reply. However, I do feel that there are two other ways an individual could fulfill his/her fantasy.

Firstly, you could expand your's comfort zone so that the two circles could intercept. This can be done through deliberate daily actions, where one is able to turn what seems to be a chore into a subconscious habit. An example of that is brushing one's teeth. However, more often than not, we often pick up the bad habits more easily then the good ones if we aren't discipline enough to do what's right. That would further expand your comfort zone; but away from where the magic happens. So much so that when your comfort zone seems bigger than what you think your magic (or in this case your dreams), you choose to stay in there forever.

I heard from another mentor about how he applies the concept of Newton's three laws of motion in describing how humans behave. But that's another story for another day.

Secondly, is for the magic to come into your comfort zone instead. In everything we do in our comfort zone, it is driven by passion and desire. Humans by nature are explorers, are seekers of truth bounded by what most people would call consciousness. I prefer to call it the guidance of the holy spirit and I Am indeed being very religious here. Because aside from all the goodness of human beings, we are all sinful by nature (that's what the bible speaks, which I couldn't agree less). Humans are genuinely lazy but greedy at the same time. So our very desire to want more by doing less is what makes up our default comfort zone.

Most people do not see that there is another component to this comfort zone - passion. Why do people not complain when they do the things they really love? People like to do things their own way, experimenting on things that they already know is the wrong way to do so, yet think they are very analytic and smart. I myself fall into this category. Is it all about the education that one has been indoctrinated with since young? Absolutely not! Everyone wants to build a beautiful house, but when we were young we are immature and tend to build the foundations fast and hasty. When we grow older we realize that there are gaps in between, but the bricks we have just do not fit the odd holes we created in the walls. It doesn't matter as long as the walls are high and water doesn't enter the house we are fine. So we continue to build further. Then it hit us that, in order to build it tall and strong wall, we have to patch the holes on the ground and what's worst is that we have to build it on solid ground and not on soil or sand. Having spent years of out lives on what we have 'achieved'. Who would want to rebuild everything again from scratch, to either fix the holes or find another solid ground altogether. At this crossroad, people who achieve success are those who humble themselves and aren't afraid to amend their mistakes. In my opinion, the people who are truly happy, are those that see how it's God's grace that sustained them, whether they build it less or built it wrong, their houses are safe from the storms. Successful people who thinks they built their walls with their own hands, have clearly failed to see who was the one who provided the land and the bricks. Will they be happy? No, they just build more flashy houses or give them away to the needy, or help others build their houses. But the very reason none of those are satisfying is because the magic doesn't happen within their own comfort zone - their hearts.

Labels: Christianity, Philosophy, Quotes and Ramblings

NAC 2012 was drop-dead amazing. I was shown so many possibilities in life that ironically left me lost and inferior. For once, I scorn myself for being so insane all this while. It's generally about time to wake up,  seeing that our future is nothing but impending doom.

One thing to take away from this.

Don't work for the money. Learn to service people and the money will automatically flow into your pockets.

Something I don't quite understand yet.

Labels: Philosophy, Television

Our conscious mind is usually playing catch-up with what is actually going on, It's a little like a busybody who shows up at an accident after it has occurred and then runs around trying to explain to everyone what happened. It tries to come up with explanations to justify the logical sense. But those explanations are after the fact and often woefully wrong.

Labels: Philosophy, Slices of Life

Bernard Shaw once remarked,

Labels: Philosophy, Quotes and Ramblings

When the rest of the world thinks we are idle, the brain, if properly trained, is following its own path. Only then, are we truly thinking. The rest of the time, we are analyzing and reacting, but our thoughts are then determined by responses to the thoughts of others. Unless we spend time in reflection - in idleness - we can never truly think thoughts of our own.

Already, we live in an era which there is little time for idle thinking. Whether in the storms of political argument or the hyper-kinetic pace of the workplace, we are called upon constantly to respond rather than reflect. The education of the young, increasingly built around the rapid-fire model of the standardized test, enhances only the model of thought in which speed is everything and reflection is for those who are left behind. As young people increasingly fill their free time with texting and other similarly fast-paced, attention absorbing activities, the opportunities for sustained reflective thought will continue to fade.

Majority of this text is mainly found in the article written by Stephen L. Carter adapted from the essay 'Praise of Idleness' by Philosopher Bertrand Russel.

Labels: Gen Y, Philosophy

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Labels: Gen Y, Love, Philosophy