I like the idea of trying new things. They go by different names. Some people call it "expand your capacity" — others call it "increase your territory" — sometimes they even call it "out of the comfort zone". However they call it, for me it’s all about one thing: you are becoming a stranger in your own life.
Lately I have been faced by multitudes of situations and challanges that requires me to discover new areas in my life I never knew existed.
Imagine yourself sitting on a white sofa in a big, white, Matrix-like room. And for a while you think that your life is just as plain as what you see. Then out of nowhere you have this urge to get off the sofa and walk towards a corner of the room.
So you did. Just before you reached the corner, the room suddenly transforms into a room full of life. Like a grand victorian-style living room: varnished wooden floor with matching tables and lamps, century-old artworks hanging on the wall, and all the things in between.
Facing sudden changes of environment like this, it is not seldom that people would say to themselves, "this is not a life i am signing up for!"
Well, maybe they’re right. It’s not the life that they thought they would live in. But come to think of it, life would always be more than just an empty white room (ok, there’s a white sofa.. but that’s it).
No matter how good the promises are, when presented in an unexpected manner, a bright future are very likely to be perceived as a threat rather than an opportunity. Unfortunately, it is not up to us whether we want to be surprised or not. But one thing we can do: we need to be ready. "Expect the unexpected" kind of thing.
I remember how exhausting it could be to go overseas during the holidays. There are plenty of new things to see, lots of new people to meet, adjustments to the different weather, and many more things on top of the long flights and the mixed-up timezones.
You would probably disagree when I say this, but I cant help but thinking if it is even worth the trip when there are so many things to sacrifice and you wont even stay in that place for long. What would you take from your trips after the holiday is done? Exhaustion or experience? What is the purpose of an experience if there are never going to be used for anything in your future?
I love it when people talk about purpose — that for everything under this world there needs to be a purpose. If you can find a clear purpose of doing something, then that something should be worth doing. If not, then you might need to rethink before you are wasting your time doing that something and then wasting your time even more trying to justify why you are doing that something at the first place — as in trying to find a scape-goat scenario in your life where you can ‘blatantly’ apply that something on top of it and tell it to the world "this is why I do that something", although deep in your heart you know that you know that you know that it is not the right way to do it.
I am going out to have dinner and movie with my friends. I guess I’d rather stop my thinking here and let it discover me later.
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