Random Post 2
Re-reading all my posts especially those in the first few years....what a difference 6 years can make.
I am less? whiny in my post? or maybe I learnt how to control my whininess because in the end, it doesn't achieve anything. I can whine/bitch/rant all I want but ultimately, I can't do a damn thing.
It is no point talking to those who refuse to hear.
It is no point in trying to talk to those who refuse to listen.
People will be people. There is nothing I can do about it because it takes effort to change people and honestly I do not have the energy and devotion to change any one person much less an organization or what not.
Superficial changes are easy. To affect someone on a deeper level take more effort. Making effort means more time, energy and getting to know a person more deeply/intimately. Who is to say that by the end, it is not you who change or that you even achieved your original purpose of changing the person. What gives us the right to think that we can or should change a person "for the better". Who gets to define better? You, me, the community at large, the moral code that you live by?
In the end we are the ones who have to judge ourselves. To decide that we are better than who we were because only we can know if we changed. People can say that's nonsense, no one can ever have enough self-knowledge of themselves to know that they have changed for the "better", that there will be flaws and other information that we hide from our selves, either consciously or unconsciously. That is true to a certain extent. External observation can bring out hidden flaws and other imperfections. But those observation is based on the perception of the person doing the judging isn't it? Who is to say that the motivations behind your actions are ever "pure", tainted by your own motivations and what other attribute to you.
Perception of self through our own eyes and through the eyes of others <- My constant struggle and my constant faithful companion, the only one that has been with me through the highs and the lows of my life.
Who is to say anything is black or white. We all live in shades of gray.
And so the cycle repeats. This is merely the lull in between.
Hoping that this moment will last longer.
I am less? whiny in my post? or maybe I learnt how to control my whininess because in the end, it doesn't achieve anything. I can whine/bitch/rant all I want but ultimately, I can't do a damn thing.
It is no point talking to those who refuse to hear.
It is no point in trying to talk to those who refuse to listen.
People will be people. There is nothing I can do about it because it takes effort to change people and honestly I do not have the energy and devotion to change any one person much less an organization or what not.
Superficial changes are easy. To affect someone on a deeper level take more effort. Making effort means more time, energy and getting to know a person more deeply/intimately. Who is to say that by the end, it is not you who change or that you even achieved your original purpose of changing the person. What gives us the right to think that we can or should change a person "for the better". Who gets to define better? You, me, the community at large, the moral code that you live by?
In the end we are the ones who have to judge ourselves. To decide that we are better than who we were because only we can know if we changed. People can say that's nonsense, no one can ever have enough self-knowledge of themselves to know that they have changed for the "better", that there will be flaws and other information that we hide from our selves, either consciously or unconsciously. That is true to a certain extent. External observation can bring out hidden flaws and other imperfections. But those observation is based on the perception of the person doing the judging isn't it? Who is to say that the motivations behind your actions are ever "pure", tainted by your own motivations and what other attribute to you.
Perception of self through our own eyes and through the eyes of others <- My constant struggle and my constant faithful companion, the only one that has been with me through the highs and the lows of my life.
Who is to say anything is black or white. We all live in shades of gray.
And so the cycle repeats. This is merely the lull in between.
Hoping that this moment will last longer.