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I need to apologize to my blog.
I seem to have been neglecting it for awhile...
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So back to the Yellow System
Contemplation/thoughts of the day.
Today person X told person Y (someone who was much older and wiser than X) that he just wants to live an easy, simple happy life. Person Y said that you should think carefully, and if you wanted to be happy, then you should rely on yourself to be happy. Do not rely on others for your happiness; an example would be asking for money. Person X is still insistent that he will be happy in a far remote place, or in the countryside doing labour work. To live simple will be hard, but it will be easier to be happy.
Who was right? Is there a right and wrong answer. To be honest, I find myself agreeing to Person X. But that doesn't give said X person to do unwell in school. To do well in school will mean opportunities are given and options are allowed. You will not have to succumb to the unfortunate events that may arise through lack of education.
I do however like the idea of simple living...however still be in a financial advantage. Simple might be a misleading word, because life and living will never be "simple' through change in environment. Oh boo. Because of my limiting vocabulary, I suppose I'll have to satisfy with the word Simple.
Being away from the city means that you won't be so distracted by the wants and needs of technologies, social stance, and expectations right?
Won't it also mean that you'd be more busy and less Sloth like? I maybe be wrong in this but I would view this idea of being in the city is to modernize and go beyond the needs of survival and attaining more efficient goods.
However, I've experienced this first hand where staying in my grand father's home meant no internet, no cable and all there was was an old black and white TV with knobs on the side, a phone that disconnects you sometimes once you pick it up and of course other kitchen appliances.
So, what my brothers and I did to pass time was to do household chores and other odd jobs. I would sweep while they would help trim the raging untamed grass and sometimes they would also lend a hand towards my grand dad with gathering bananas in our jungle-like yard. Sometimes I would open and crack some coconut shells with this cool contraption and taste the fresh sweetness of the juice that drips onto my hand. When rambutans were in season, my family would get our magnificent and wondrous scythe to cut a branch of rambutans while little squirming ants rain down on our heads. yuuuummm...rambutans..not ants.
These were the time I would forget about the outside world, the forever developing mobile devices, the social climbing activities and constantly trying to appease those around me. I would not care about facebook updates, the television shows that threaten to do more harm than good.
Then again, it does depend on the person doesn't it? Whether the simple life is for you. And maybe some of us don't want to be happy that way and our happiness is derived from the materials of mankind.
I know sometimes I don't even want to feel happy and dandy and smiley and jolly. (so many eeys)
Being satisfied is fine with me sometimes. Oh schmuk. We all just need to be a nucleofile.file.file.file.

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