Just Things

              (c) - www.careeranna.com    When I was younger and less wise, I always thought that a good life is a well-planned life. It’s when everything falls into place and all you have to do is live what is thought. And coupled with this visceral boring plan is the uncompromised idea of a good career. After all, having a good career is what gets you the money, the fame, and the glory. So basically, having a good career gets you much nearer to a good life, than not having one. For many years I have lived my life believing in this absolute uninspiring motive. I took a good (or rather, honorable) job, decided to take a further study and worry many times a week about what good ideas might be wonderful to write a paper about, and so on. There were times when the scenery of this bland pursuit was not awesome to watch, but mostly, especially when I get too serious, the beauty of the race had gotten so addict...

                  Anywhere, anytime there is always an established way of seeing, doing, thinking, or believing. Not only that it is unavoidable, it is actually necessary. We cannot organize our social lives unless we have something which we with all the rest around us respect and follow. Imagine for instance a road where vehicles from different places would go through to reach different directions each intersecting another with no traffic light, no traffic signs, no traffic officers, and each car honks like a mad cow. One does not surely want to pass by that road, unless he is a cow. However, not all systems of rules – either written or unwritten – are necessary. Sometimes, they contribute more to the destruction of our well being than in maintaining our lives intact and stable. The burdens they impose become problems that, upon critical scrutiny, are found to be mere pseudo-problems, problems created by...