Dakepaike's Weekly Quotes:
Week 17:
The planner plans because he fears and the planner fears because he plans.
This is most probably my last long post before i go into the secluded mountains far away from civilisation to prepare for my exams. Haha... ok, not that serious, but I really need to catch up on a lot of things.
In life, we must have made plans before, be it long term or short term ones. We plan for various reasons and one of them can be due to fear.
Some people fear the future because of its uncertainties. Or maybe they fear they that do not have the capabilities to deal with future challenges. It is normal and natural to fear the future I think. Because sometimes future circumstances are truly beyond your control and they may drive you to a corner or have bad impacts on you.
The planner plans because her fear such consequences. When the planner is driven by fear, he will formulate his plans cautiously, covering all angles, ensuring things will go his way. But at the same time, when huge efforts are made to ensure his plans go smoothly, he will fear because he made his plans.
What if the plans do not go his way? Will all his efforts go down the drain? Will he face the prospect of something bad? Then why in the 1st place does he plan? When he knows that he cannot control certain factors that may hinder his goals? So, he fears because he plans, because he will be bothered by all these uncertainties in the process of planning. He may have back up plans, but as i have said, even back up plans will be to some extent dependent on future situations.
I always like to say the world is a very complicated place to live in. One day, I was listening to 98.5FM (not that I like that radio station, but because my father was listening to it) and there was this person talking about the philosophies of life. She is really an emotional and good speaker. Talked about so much stuff and used so many classic stories and quotes from famous people to decipher life. Obviously, being a free to air radio station, she could not say negative things about life, it was kind of like a motivational talk.
I told my dad "she is bull- sh*ting."
She tried to apply philosophies that she thought were right to every single person. Well, some of those sounded really simple. I do not like the fact that she tried to make life sound simple and that she disagreed with people who did things in a politically incorrect way. But I know it was kind of a motivational talk, so no complains. Oh, now I strongly disapprove quotes and phrases that encourages people to do things in a socially acceptable manner. I feel that these are quite naive things to listen to. The complexity of situations, individuals are so diverse, colourful and unique that we should not fix certain simple and seemingly useless advice and ideas to them. Simplifying things is just simply not embracing the beauty of diversity, complexity and uniqueness.
Ok, that's all from my for the time being. Unless my emotional faculty starts running loose again during this extremely crucial time (I really hope not).
Exams are coming!!! Good luck guys.
We are reaching a milestone too, 1000 visitors!!
-dakepaike-
The planner plans because he fears and the planner fears because he plans.
This is most probably my last long post before i go into the secluded mountains far away from civilisation to prepare for my exams. Haha... ok, not that serious, but I really need to catch up on a lot of things.
In life, we must have made plans before, be it long term or short term ones. We plan for various reasons and one of them can be due to fear.
Some people fear the future because of its uncertainties. Or maybe they fear they that do not have the capabilities to deal with future challenges. It is normal and natural to fear the future I think. Because sometimes future circumstances are truly beyond your control and they may drive you to a corner or have bad impacts on you.
The planner plans because her fear such consequences. When the planner is driven by fear, he will formulate his plans cautiously, covering all angles, ensuring things will go his way. But at the same time, when huge efforts are made to ensure his plans go smoothly, he will fear because he made his plans.
What if the plans do not go his way? Will all his efforts go down the drain? Will he face the prospect of something bad? Then why in the 1st place does he plan? When he knows that he cannot control certain factors that may hinder his goals? So, he fears because he plans, because he will be bothered by all these uncertainties in the process of planning. He may have back up plans, but as i have said, even back up plans will be to some extent dependent on future situations.
I always like to say the world is a very complicated place to live in. One day, I was listening to 98.5FM (not that I like that radio station, but because my father was listening to it) and there was this person talking about the philosophies of life. She is really an emotional and good speaker. Talked about so much stuff and used so many classic stories and quotes from famous people to decipher life. Obviously, being a free to air radio station, she could not say negative things about life, it was kind of like a motivational talk.
I told my dad "she is bull- sh*ting."
She tried to apply philosophies that she thought were right to every single person. Well, some of those sounded really simple. I do not like the fact that she tried to make life sound simple and that she disagreed with people who did things in a politically incorrect way. But I know it was kind of a motivational talk, so no complains. Oh, now I strongly disapprove quotes and phrases that encourages people to do things in a socially acceptable manner. I feel that these are quite naive things to listen to. The complexity of situations, individuals are so diverse, colourful and unique that we should not fix certain simple and seemingly useless advice and ideas to them. Simplifying things is just simply not embracing the beauty of diversity, complexity and uniqueness.
Ok, that's all from my for the time being. Unless my emotional faculty starts running loose again during this extremely crucial time (I really hope not).
Exams are coming!!! Good luck guys.
We are reaching a milestone too, 1000 visitors!!
-dakepaike-
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