An article caught my attention in The
Star newspaper today. It was in the Heart and Soul section of the The Star Mag
with the title "Revelations On A Bus".

I do not know about you guys, and
gals of course, but as for me, i got a knack for reading articles like this. I
enjoy learning new things and seeing life from a different kind of view, how
others view life and how life in turn teaches them a few valuable
lessons.

The Event is Nothing. The Response is Everything.

What is this? For your general knowledge, this is a very famous Taoist saying that appeared in the article today. It says that whatever event, be it sad or happy, that takes part in your life, is not important. What important is how you respond to it which makes all the difference.

As for me, like the usual me, i'll be focusing on sad events first as it is the sad events, those heart wrenching ones that usually renders us useless and throws us down to the bottom of the Earth.
Before that, you may wonder why there is so much hardship for us humans to brave through all along our life. Well, it seems that problems is a norm in this world we live in. As long as there is humans, war will keep on happening, fighting will keep on erupting, tears will be shed, dissapointments will keep on appearing and storms after storms will come.
Unthinkable, isn't it?
I can't start to understand the pain and anguish you may face, how depressed you may be when are so many scars on your heart but there is one thing i know. The response is everything.
What do you do when faced with such a big boulder that you cannot move? Ignore it, attempt to sweep it under the rug. Sorry to inform you but no matter how hard you try, you can't possibly ignore such a large boulder right?
Or you can choose to make use of the boulder. Use it to make your life better, say build a house with it?
You see, i learnt that what happens to us is not important. Everyone faces problems, be it with family, money, friends, career, studies and ah, the ever most important one, LOVE.
It is what we choose to make out of these events that will in turn change us into different kinds of person. Those who rise up from the ashes and become better person or those who always shy away from problems or those who are plain hated by everyone else.
So, the next time when you're faced with hardships, do not complain! Try to look at it from a different prespective. How you can make it to benefit you? What can you learn?
Just whining and complaining would not change anything at all and a better way is turn it into something productive. That is all that counts. Remember, what is important is how well you can cope with something that truly puts you to the limit. How to make yourself a better person.
So stay happy and cheerful plus positive when you got a problem!

Guess i have said all that i want to
say and everything i would have say now.
Concerning about my life, well, i
also will have to learn about what i wrote up there.Plus how not to affect others when i'm sad. 

There is one proverb that i especially liked among the millions of proverbs in millions of languages around the world. It really do sum up what i feel about this world. Want to know what is it? The proverbs goes like this: Ignorance Is Bliss.

What does it mean actually?

To put it in layman's term, it is quite simple. It means life rocks - well, at least it's something like that - when you do not know something no matter what it is be it knowledge, morality or who is your friend's latest girlfriend.
Some of you might say, "How can this be? If we do not have any knowledge, wisdom, morality how far can we go in life? Human race would still be like apes right now if we choose to be ignorant of those?"

So what? As far as i'm concerned, knowledge hasn't brought us any forward in life compared to a few thousand years before. Life is still the same, wars, famine, poverty, aren't knowledge supposed to stop all that?

And even after a stepping into such a modern era, we could not still discern what is right and what is wrong in life. There are still so much immorality going on even though truth is often presented right at our face.


Why is ignorance such a bliss?

When you do not know that things are happening, you practically do not have to care about it thus making your life lesser with problems.

When you do not know what is wrong and what is right, you do not have to care about the actions you do. You can do anything in life because there is no wrong or right for you thus life would have no constriction.

When you do not know about the problems going around you, like people suffering in Africa, war going on in Iraq, your friend is killed in an accident etc etc, you do not have to burden yourself with unnecessary concern of helping all these people, and you would not be even helping them in the first place if you are ignorant to the fact that as humans we must help one another.

Not knowing about something makes life much more easier. We do not have to take responsiblity of certain things and we do not have to take into account the impact of each of our actions.


Too bad God did not make the world this way and too bad also that he choose not to make me an ignorant person.

There are a few types of people in this world which can be categorised intothe first to know, the second to know and the ignorant ones. Sad to say, i'm one of the first type.

When you have the knowledge of something, like what is wrong and what is right, a responsibility or in better words, a burden, is placed on you from that moment you gain an understanding into soemthing new.

Besides that, you cannot go on living the life you once had anymore. When yo get to know something, life isn't just the same anymore. Be it a secret, knowledge,insight, the way you view life is different. You cannot choose to be ignorant as last time.

Well, for example, last time you do not know that smoking damages your body so you smoked a lot. But when you get to know that smoking is wrong, how do you respond? Hard to make decision right? You want to stop because you know its wrong but at the same time, you're addicted to it. Stopping is not easy.

Or there's a friend of you whom you idolize and respect very much. He/she seems to be a very good and with a high moral person. But one day, you found out that this person who is your role model is actually someone who steals other people's belongings and like to sleep around with people. What do you do that time? Is it very hard to make a decision?

That is why i say ignorance is bliss. I choose not to know so many stuff in life because eventually it will pile up until it is so hard to make a decision.
Sometimes, you just find life a little to hard to move on.

But all is not only bad in this case, at least i know what am i doing in my life now and my life isn't full of lies and deception. And at least i know that the direction i'm heading in life now is a correct one although sometimes it do test me a lot.

And the most important one is at least i have God in my life. So, there's bad and good too in this situation, but you can't deny that ignorace is bliss sometimes.

One lesson hit me straight in the face today and wow, was it painful.

I have always talked about having a focus in life, a purpose so our life would be more in perspective and we would not waste away our life.

But words are always easier said than done and i realised that me, myself did not live as what i have said and i have lost my focus in life, straying from my path.

Sine entering form 6, i have been losing my focus in life, not knowing what am i living for anymore.

The purpose and dreams in our life are what that guide us during our walk in life and the actions that we do everyday are affected by that goal, that purpose. Everything that we do, everything that we hope to achieve are to ahieve and accomplish our dreams and purpose in life.

Without it, our life is a mess and we would not know what are we doing in life. Everyday is just, everyday, with no meaning, no nothing.

This had been my life since i started form six, not knowing what am i living for anymore. Girls, money, fame or what i have always proclaimed but never done anything about it? God?


Luckily for me, the knock came in the form of my teacher today.
One question that he asked made me opened my eyes again.

"What do we all owe God?"

Everyone owes God, no matter who we are and as for me, i owe God everything. My life, my friends, who i am today. I've forgotten that having proclaimed that He is the focus in my life, that i'm living for Christ.

I've gotten sidetracked by the worldly and temporary things in life and its no wonder my life is getting messier everyday!