28-yr old nocturnal over@nal geekette Malaysian.
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The Funny Thing About Human Beings
*taken from Paulo Coelho's Like the Flowing River
A man asked my friend Jaime Cohen:
"What is the human being's funniest characteristic?"Cohen said:
"Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then we spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present or the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we never have lived."
How much truth is there in those simple words. We live everyday, with no risk. With fear that if we changed our paths now, we will regret it. Instead, our biggest regret later in life is that we never followed our dreams.
I never supported the idea of working to our deaths, or for our pension fund. Why work til we are old and dying, before we see the world and experience life as it is? Isn't youth the best time to have our minds shaped by seeing places, cultures, people? Our Asian mentality says, work while you're still young... suffer now, you can enjoy later. Oh, how unenlightened we are about life. Enjoyment doesn't just belong to children. If belongs to all of us, if only we embrace it now.