~ let me teach you how to live ~
Today we were to write down our goals, coz apparently with goals, we know what we want, and then we'll know how we are to get there, and only then will we be getting there... yada yada yada....
not that i have a problem with the system, i mean, it makes perfect sense and everything.
but if it were true : wait for it.... i'm like the underachiever of the century
goals goals goals... not only was our teacher making fun out of setting up goal posts, my brain resembled it to. it looked like it had perfect frame, but it was substantiated by net. so anything as fluid as thoughts flowed right throughout. even the most viscous ones.... because i realised my goal, was pretty simple.
let's try and make it simpler by breaking my life into two parts; the dream state (which honestly, i spend about 17 hours a day in, but for simplicity's sake, lets only count the time when i'm actually sleeping) and the waking state.
Dream state : If I wake up on the day, and despite nightmares or airport dreams, i smile, there you go, goal achieved.
Waking state : If i can go to sleep at night, but right before that splash of water onto the face and the capping of the toothpaste tub, if i can smile and mean it, en voila.
Why can't everything be this simple? and why is this not goal enough for the school? is being mediocre really that bad? everyone's completely blissful when being mediocre, really. it's just that the difference comes in when different ppl have different level of mediocrity, and yet, we are expected to equalise the playing field. WHY? I mean, don't get me wrong and everything, i think it's wonderful that ppl push themselves, it's wonderful that there are millions of awesome ppl out there... but someone just yesterday told me, and then made me feel stupid, coz well, it's like the most obvious things out there : there's like 7 billion ppl out there. whatever you end up doing, chances are, someone somewhere have already done it, is currently doing it, or will do it soon. It's that simple.
So why the yardstick? proposed by someone (probably a really smart someone too) that humans need something to spur them into action. without that subconscious knocking against the glass door, ready to break it into shards small enough to pass through vessels and still leave it unscathed, without someone holding a hammer and liquid nitrogen with a sinister smile on their face, or without that dog on the other side really wanting to take a walk, we are settled. and unperturbed. and going to do nothing about it. LITERALLY NOTHING (i'm begging you, please don't take into account that breathing and stupid vital stuffs that don't help me prove my point, :P )
*pauses*
wait, what's my point again?
Okay, i don't know. but that's besides the point.
so follow this :
1) smile
2) grin, dude
3) oh, show your freakin teeth already, what you haven't brushed in eons or something?
4) now make a retarded face
5) laugh, loudly
6) do exactly what you want to do
7) understand that being responsible is not equal to being serious :))
8) please get back to work so that your bosses or teachers don't come running after me ;)
and that's it!!! step by step guide to..... earning weird stares from everyone around you....
if you didn't, either you're alone (are we ever, really?) or get the heck outta wherever you are, coz the ppl around YOU are creeping ME out ...
bottom-line : smile, be happy, be blissful, and please dear god, get some sleep :))
P.P.S. hugs to the girl (kinda scared she'll kill me if i mention her name....hehe) who's one of the most optimistic person i've met here <3
~seriousness is giving unnecessary importance to something, at the cost of everything else~
hello hello.
ReplyDeletefirst of all i guess i was really touched to see a post dedicated to me. :D /if i didnt mistaken, that is.
my first impression was. is this a GP passage?!
tight arguements! tight arguements!
what is your definition as an underachiever?
in my eyes, if you are an underachiever, i don't see as much successful people out there anymore.
being mediocre is awesome, in fact i loved the feeling that i do not have to wake up to stress of having to run 2 clubs at the same time, and that i can stroll around, (PON GMS), stone during meetings, and go home the moment they say "you're dismissed", instead of staying back for another 2 hours to plan for the next activity.
yet, too mediocre makes me weak, for i think, power fills me up.
at least for now, thats what i think.
because its only when u have authority, thats when you can make a change in lives.
just like how a rich has the ability to change the world, yet the poor have to worry about where will their next meal come from.
i would like to be the rich, for i have lives that i need to take care of.
and a little bit of stress, works wonders.
its true that you may be doing the same things that another 7 billion people may be doing, and that you may be doing even worse off than them, yet, the fact that you did it shows that there is a chance, for you to be slightly, just slightly different.
BUT. its really tiring to make a difference. and i guess thats the reason why my friends are joining imh one by one.
because, they really tried.
and er. er. I AM LOST IN UR PASSAGE LOLOLOL
CRAP I BROKE THE MOOD BWAHHAHAHA
okay erhem.
pouting is a more effective way of smiling. LOLOL
because you reach 2 bullets at the same time.
1. smile, 2. make a retarded face
TEEHEE
OH. and i would like to ask, the people around me are creeping you out? really? i thought i was just the only one thats being creepy? >:D
TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHOS CREEPY AROUND ME. >:D
give me some time, to adapt better to jc. because the transition from I-once-had-every-single-thing-i-wanted TO i-have-to-fight-for-every-single-thing-i-need-and-yet-sometimes-it-doesnt-turn-out-the-way-i-want-it-to-be is really way too great.
i have always believed greatly in this quote from a particular korean comedian: laugh because it will happen, and not laugh becuase it happened. (er. the translation a bit weird. but. sth on that line....) and hence, i will be like this comedian, though i am kinda like suffering from 'comedy diability' right now.
and sometimes, authority earns u some "friends".
although they are not friends since they come near you because you are smarter or more capable, but this kinda people, are sometimes necessary. and i lost about. 3?
BUT I STILL HAVE U TWO AND U TWO ARE KINDA LIKE THE REASON WHY I STILL TRAVEL EVERYDAY, FROM NORTH TO EAST. VIA 1.5 HOUR MRT RIDE. <3
thank you very much. :)
ehehehe i just blasted my thoughts and this looks like another GP essay. pweeehheeeheee. :D and actually i think, i am really too simple. shallow, i say, shallow! :D
thank you for your love and support, that i really needed badly, every single day. :)
oh. talking about last night, as to why i was so tired.
ReplyDeletei slept for 5 hours, which should be enough cause i have lived my past 16 years like that.
BUT. i woke up in the middle of the night for 3 times.
1st time, i dreammt of my chem lecture test and then i woke up
2nd time, i dreamt of econs essay and all the notes came flooding into my mind
3rd time, i woke up cause i dreamt of something. damn scary. LOL
AND I AM FLOODING YOUR COMMENTS WOOOHOOO KAMATCHI KAMATCHI KAMATCHI!
:D