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Friday Five 15-July
Saturday, 16 July 2016 00:461.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
I keep thinking that I'm in my early twenties, I guess I'm a bit fixated in that era. I see young people earning doing part time jobs and earning, say, $60 an hour (local money) whereas when I was in my early twenties I earned $15 an hour at my part time job. I'm kind of fixated in setting the socially acceptable levels according to my times and I just can't change that, and I keep thinking myself during those times.
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
The standard answer is "never trying", but I'm actually in the "failure is... erm FAILURE!" camp. I see it this way, people would go "yeah, so I tried it once, and I failed. So all is good because I've tried," and then they never do it again. For me I'd rather have never tried because once I fail, I'll do it again and again and again and again until I succeed. It all sounds very idealistic and romantic in a way, but there has been many a time when I've fixated too much in succeeding in something just for it to end up as a "okay, I did it! Yippie!...... so... now what? How does that help me now?"
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
That's a very deep question. I have no answer to that. But I guess... it's like eating. You love candy. You can't just live on candy. You hate veggies, but you have to eat your veggies. Life is short, but if you attempt to exists solely on candy, your life will be shorter.
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
I'm kind of thinking this question wants to ask "will you have done more than you've said".... but well... I've said many a thing and haven't done it. I'm a procrastinator. It kind of clashes to that "have to succeed" thing up there in point 2, but yeah, I label myself as a procrastinatic-workaholic. I procrastinate but once I get started, I get things done.
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
I don't have any deep or insightful answer. My current answer is due to reading some Facebook posts a couple minutes ago. I'd like to change this modern journalism back into the good old type. There was an article, and the intro on the Facebook wall said "She heard a noise, when she saw that....!!!!" and then the actual article had nothing to do with "a noise", and nothing to do with "she seeing that." It was about a woman who trained her dogs to line up to get their paws cleaned before going into the house. I feel so emotionally cheated. I had thought it was some jaw-dropping thing like a UFO or something.
I keep thinking that I'm in my early twenties, I guess I'm a bit fixated in that era. I see young people earning doing part time jobs and earning, say, $60 an hour (local money) whereas when I was in my early twenties I earned $15 an hour at my part time job. I'm kind of fixated in setting the socially acceptable levels according to my times and I just can't change that, and I keep thinking myself during those times.
2.Which is worse, failing or never trying?
The standard answer is "never trying", but I'm actually in the "failure is... erm FAILURE!" camp. I see it this way, people would go "yeah, so I tried it once, and I failed. So all is good because I've tried," and then they never do it again. For me I'd rather have never tried because once I fail, I'll do it again and again and again and again until I succeed. It all sounds very idealistic and romantic in a way, but there has been many a time when I've fixated too much in succeeding in something just for it to end up as a "okay, I did it! Yippie!...... so... now what? How does that help me now?"
3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
That's a very deep question. I have no answer to that. But I guess... it's like eating. You love candy. You can't just live on candy. You hate veggies, but you have to eat your veggies. Life is short, but if you attempt to exists solely on candy, your life will be shorter.
4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
I'm kind of thinking this question wants to ask "will you have done more than you've said".... but well... I've said many a thing and haven't done it. I'm a procrastinator. It kind of clashes to that "have to succeed" thing up there in point 2, but yeah, I label myself as a procrastinatic-workaholic. I procrastinate but once I get started, I get things done.
5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
I don't have any deep or insightful answer. My current answer is due to reading some Facebook posts a couple minutes ago. I'd like to change this modern journalism back into the good old type. There was an article, and the intro on the Facebook wall said "She heard a noise, when she saw that....!!!!" and then the actual article had nothing to do with "a noise", and nothing to do with "she seeing that." It was about a woman who trained her dogs to line up to get their paws cleaned before going into the house. I feel so emotionally cheated. I had thought it was some jaw-dropping thing like a UFO or something.
