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June 18 PerfectEverybody dreams of having a perfect life or wants everything to be perfect. The perfect exam scores, the perfect job, the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend, the perfect wedding, the perfect marriage, the perfect car, the perfect holiday. Most people yearn for even simple things to be perfect, like first dates or having sex for the first time. However, have you ever tried keeping score on how many things you plan to be perfect actually materialised? And if you can say you've achieved everything perfectly, why the hell are you still doing reading this blog then? Go live your perfect life.
For me at least, and I bet it goes for alot of you out there, a majority of things never turn out the way I hope for it to be (be it for better or worse). Thats why I've stop dreaming a long time ago and just do the best I can, and just hopefully get (pleasently) surprised by the results. I've stop trying to predict the outcome and get dissapointed when it doesn't turn out as I want it to be, and being more appreciative for what I do achieve. Call me a pessimist, but I call it damage control.
I don't find myself the luckiest person in ther world. I'm not saying I'm not lucky AT ALL and I'm not saying I ain't grateful for what I have, but I just feel that I've had enough experiences where I get dissapointed more often than not when I expect the most. But I daresay that if something doesn't turn out the way I expect it to be, I'm fortunate enough in a sense that something else will happen that doesn't seem so bad after all. That's how MY luck works anyway.
I find it easier to take one game at a time. Take whatever's on my plate and not think too much of whats gonna happen in the future. For example, alot of people think they already have the blueprint for their life; they graduate at age 21, get a job that pays great, fuck around for abit and get married when they're 30, have 3 kids by 40 and retire at age 55. Then if things don't work out exactly like they planned it, they start panicking and have to think up a whole new gameplan.
That's why for me, its scary to plan out my life that way. I'd rather see what I already have and then see what I can do with what I have. Should things turn out better, then hey its all good. Again, to me, its damage control. I don't get disspointed if I don't really expect anything.
But don't get it confused. It's not like I don't have any goals in life, but I don't set unachievable goals or put a timeline to it. It's like I wanna be a millionaire, but I don't think I'm gonna bother too much about when as long as I achieve it.
Sometimes when I see a couple and the guy gets into his Nissan GTR or a BMW, the first thing that comes to my mind is that they're really lucky and how I wish my life was as perfect as his. But then when I do think about it again, I don't think anybody's perfect or living the perfect life. That guy in the BMW could well have more problems then I do. His girlfriend probably sleeps with Tom, Dick AND Harry and he doesn't know about it. Everybody has their own problems. I bet even Hugh Hefner can't get it up every once in a while.
My life has been far from perfect, but I sure ain't complaining. I think I'm at a point where I'm somewhat grateful what I have and what I've achieved, and it ain't all that bad (right?). Do I wish for a better life? Sure. Do I want a life that even Vincent Chase would envy? Of course. But do I expect or think it will ever happen to me? Probably not.
Its safe to say I'm contented with my life at present moment. I've a job, a great loving girlfriend, great friends and a great family.
That's all I need for now. June 16 The Greatest Thing Since Sliced BreadI never understood the meaning of that phrase. It's a very typical overused "American" phrase.
So, the next question would be "What's the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?". And was the creation of sliced bread that great anyway? Was it like a major celebration when sliced bread was finally made available? And if the statement is used so generally, why doesn't the benchmark change accordingly? Why do we stillkeep referring to sliced bread?
The phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread" (and variations thereof) is a commonly used hyperbolic means of praising an invention or development. Sliced bread appears to be something of an arbitrary selection as the benchmark against which later inventions should be judged. It has been said that "the phrase is the ultimate depiction of innovative achievement and American know-how", although it is commonly used in the United Kingdom as well. The popular use of the phrase derives from the fact that Wonder Bread, the first mass-marketer of sliced bread as a product, launched a 1930s ad campaign touting the innovation. Passing thruWith facebook taking up most of my time at the present moment (well, at least in the office), I've come to realise how funny/weird it is when I come across a random picture of a random person and I notice I'm coincidently standing in the background. Its like I'm suddenly and randomly part of that person's life (or picture) at that particular moment in time.
It makes you start wondering how many people out there have pictures of you in the background. And how I wish there was a tool to locate every picture of me ever taken, be it in facebook, in the news or in somebody's blog. Even looking thru your pictures, you're bound to have more than a few pictures of people that were not meant to be in the picture.
I guess I've noticed it more often, especially in Facebook where you're bound to have mutual friends or friends of friends who hang out in the same places you do. And it is really a small world.
This is just another of my random thoughts and wonderings that just got me thinking.
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