This blog has been coldheartedly abandoned by the owner.
Okay maybe it’s time to turn it into the awesomest blog on the Internet revive it.
I promise to make attempts to blog more.
P/S: Note the word ‘attempt’
Why do we have fingerprints? I remember being taught that it was to improve our grip. It made sense, and it still does. It’s difficult to find any reasons to attempt to disprove that, when we all have the preconception that it is undoubtedly true.
But is it?
Which brings me to this point – how true are the things we thought were true?
Complacency happens, it’s just human nature. Wonderful things in life, things the more unfortunate people can only dream for, gets taken for granted. And when we do, we fail to question. Just because people tell us – it’s like that – doesn’t make it any truer than we telling ourselves – it’s not like that.
It’s not about science. Not everything can be proved or disproved through science. But what is certain is that when we do not question, truth is nothing more than prejudice. People have their own version of believes, people have their own justifications, people have their own truths.
Nobody is to blame, because nobody is at fault. Like how beauty is in the eye of the beholder, truths can be imprinted into one’s mind by one’s believes, and believes are never as simple as right or wrong.
Question – we may or may not find an answer which is not the same as what we want to believe. We may or not find the absolute truth. If there’s even such a thing.
But, question.
Sometimes, we do something in order to find out the reason for it. Our actions are questions, not answers. There are two sides to every question. And to every answer you find, begets two more questions.
Start questioning.
On a lively Chinese New Year morning, my whole family was gathered at the dining hall having our customary noodles for breakfast. Then, the following conversation ensued:
Mum: I saw the maid sweeping the floor, I told her need to ask ah ma before sweeping the floor.
Grandma: Oh, I told her to sweep the floor. It’s not clean outside there.
Grandpa: Sweep? Cannot! Must mop! Sweep not clean enough!
I snickered and continued my breakfast.
Happy Chinese New Year.
It’s a very subjective matter.
Red or blue? Big or small? Do or not? Simple questions. Trivial? Maybe so, maybe not. For some, making ends meet is their life-long goal. For some, going up to space is a mere milestone in their life. Who is to question the importance (or triviality) of such a choice of actions?
These actions will inevitably lead to something. Anything. Are you making a difference through it? You probably can and probably are. But how much, really? Is it a negligible amount? Probably. Not necessarily. But it is not for you to decide. You do not need to decide. You might not even want to know the answer.
Because truth often hurts.
“Seeing is Believing”
So they say. It’s very true, I believe. Seeing with your very own eyes is as a matter of fact, very convincing, whatever it pertains. The very nature of a magician’s crafty art is convincing one by sight, in a way that you only see what he wants you to see. Thus, it’s easy to believe in magic, but seeing what you saw does not bring you remotely close to understanding it.
Nobody ever said Seeing is Understanding.
It struck me that seeing something does not always, if at all, helps with understanding. Many a times, what we do not see matters more than how much we think it does. Just like how a magician’s trick are the moves he pulls which are hidden from view.
It is easy to believe in something you see. Understanding it, is another matter.
The real challenge is – what do you not see?
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