Recently I been thinking a lot, normally I already think a lot, so you can imagine what can happen if I think a lot a lot. I will end up confused and lost.
When I am lost or confuse with which direction to take. I will look at map or see my iphone Google Map. So suddenly I have this idea, life will be great if we have a map that point us to our happiness. Somebody might say we have the map and it called Holy Bible.
Bible does give me a peace of mind but I can't find much happiness from it. I have no idea why. Sometime via events, I could feel love from God, family and friends. But sometime I just felt lost again.
So I start to think of which direction I should go? Does it mean that if certain area in life look sad or depress I should avoid it at all cost? Because happiness is unlikely to held in that direction?
Then I saw this sentence "Happiness is not simply the absence of despair. It is an affirmative state in which our lives have both meaning and pleasure."
I realise that I often have the moment of happiness after a long period of hardship. For an example: The sense of relief after week of exams and simple happy feeling of knowing that there are friends around me that will support and catch me if I fall. The ability to fall and stand strong again and forgive myself of what I have done in the past, via time I am happy again.
We are what we do. If we constantly do good deed, make other happy, we will be happy too. Kindness is the most important virtue. To share and to give, allow one to get happy via knowing that he has help other from saddness and despair.
The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
Normally, the thing you want to do, need lot of money. Then we start to find money, then we got money but forgot what we want to do initially.
Normally, someone to love, the one you love don't love you, the person who love you, you don't love, after you lost that person that you start to regret and realise you love that person. I am blind to love.
Normally, something to look forward to, take lot of time. I look forward that my exam ended quickly, it did but I am lost. I look forward that my final year project will end successfully then I start to worry that I will lost again on finding my carreer path? Probably I going to be lost again.
It might be better that we are lost sometime.
When we lost, we look and think.
When we think, we recall and picture get clear.
I imagine myself being a kindergarten teacher, teach a class of kids on what I want to share with them, then happily go home and happily wake up and wish to share my teaching with the kids again. At home chat with my mom, end of the month, get salary and treat family and friends dinner. Then repeat this rountine til I retire.
But that is imagination after all. My life shouldn't be so simple.
My map is bigger than I thought.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 08, 2010
Information Age
Today is Monday, March 8, 2010.
We lived in the Age of Information. Whoever has most informations, most accurate or latest information, and know how to use the informations like nobody else. He can rise in power.
In Ancient times, if anyone who have the knowledge of accurate astronomy or calender information, he can predict cosmic events such as meteor shower, eclipse. Normal people will awe of the person prediction skill and give them high ranks and think they are favor by Gods. Having higher education and wisdom, you command higher power. Students don't know answer, they pay money to teacher to teach them. Teachers, Doctors, Professors, Inventors, Writers. They change the world with their knowledge and creativity.
With the power of Internet, the ultimate platform for accelerating the flow of information. This generation has a pool of shared knowledge like wikipedia. But many information in Internet can be misleading, inaccurate. So if one day you see people saying JJ is a flirt, they are NOT refering to me but the singer and if you see people say JJ is talented, they are NOT refering to the singer but to me :D.
Although online information are more 'fresh' compare to newspaper and radio. We have to spent lot and lot of time to filter them. In the end, no one care, we just use information online and assume they are the fact.
Let say one day, I create lot of information saying there dark cloud in the sky are the products of gather substances cause by smokers,vehicles,factories and human evil thoughts. Water that fall from the dark clouds is actually the Earth's Tear.
By making my information appear on wiki and first three pages of google search, people get confuse then give up and accept it as fact.
When people start complaining why weather so hot, I simply reply that Earth have give up on human race and decide to stop crying and get real angry. The only solution to this, is to say more jokes and make Earth laugh until cry.
Based on Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, there are six different kinds of information.
Questions (White)
- considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?
Emotions (Red)
- instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification)
Bad points judgment (Black)
- logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch
Good points judgment (Yellow)
- logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony
Creativity (Green)
- statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes
Thinking (Blue)
- thinking about thinking
Anyway below is the diagram of a small of potion of our Internet map, quite pretty hor.
We lived in the Age of Information. Whoever has most informations, most accurate or latest information, and know how to use the informations like nobody else. He can rise in power.
In Ancient times, if anyone who have the knowledge of accurate astronomy or calender information, he can predict cosmic events such as meteor shower, eclipse. Normal people will awe of the person prediction skill and give them high ranks and think they are favor by Gods. Having higher education and wisdom, you command higher power. Students don't know answer, they pay money to teacher to teach them. Teachers, Doctors, Professors, Inventors, Writers. They change the world with their knowledge and creativity.
With the power of Internet, the ultimate platform for accelerating the flow of information. This generation has a pool of shared knowledge like wikipedia. But many information in Internet can be misleading, inaccurate. So if one day you see people saying JJ is a flirt, they are NOT refering to me but the singer and if you see people say JJ is talented, they are NOT refering to the singer but to me :D.
Although online information are more 'fresh' compare to newspaper and radio. We have to spent lot and lot of time to filter them. In the end, no one care, we just use information online and assume they are the fact.
Let say one day, I create lot of information saying there dark cloud in the sky are the products of gather substances cause by smokers,vehicles,factories and human evil thoughts. Water that fall from the dark clouds is actually the Earth's Tear.
By making my information appear on wiki and first three pages of google search, people get confuse then give up and accept it as fact.
When people start complaining why weather so hot, I simply reply that Earth have give up on human race and decide to stop crying and get real angry. The only solution to this, is to say more jokes and make Earth laugh until cry.
Based on Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, there are six different kinds of information.
Questions (White)
- considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?
Emotions (Red)
- instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification)
Bad points judgment (Black)
- logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch
Good points judgment (Yellow)
- logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony
Creativity (Green)
- statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes
Thinking (Blue)
- thinking about thinking
Anyway below is the diagram of a small of potion of our Internet map, quite pretty hor.
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