Have You A Fulfillment?

LOOK ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE!!

What? Why? Do I always have to?

I have just seen the video on YouTube after being reminded by my Managerial Accounting lecturer. It was our last class for the semester and he showed us a little of what he thought might give us a little spoonful of thought on what life is actually like. A video on quotes and a random addition to that - a video that had Nick Vujicic starred in. Nick is a motivational speaker. He hasn't any limbs but he sure is giving adequate emotional and spiritual support to the listener but only for a thin period of time. Let's look on the bright side shall we? Well, the the motivation will at least be elicited wouldn't it?

And as for the YouTube video, it was 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch. Some say his lecture was motivational, well to bring down the fact, many. What was that lecture about meaningfully? His lecture was perceived and people were deceived to compromise that it was inspirational. It sure was. He dreamed of a list of things that he thought he could not achieve in real life, but where exactly is the struggle? Perhaps, him going through chemotherapy. And for that, the others were to give him a little more credit. You might think, "who is she to discredit this dying man". Randy might not have been the most motivational person, not even close to one. He is simply a man who has unfortunately been blown with cancer. It sure is a nasty one. All he's doing is just, looking at the bright side of things. Are you sure? He have not known of his cancer before 2006. And before, he wanted to give a lecture of what he calls, "The Last Lecture".

Does it really make any sense at all? I think, it was taken all too lightly. The subject was not much in depth enough to be motivational or inspirational. I could not feel anything except that it was just another ordinary boring lecture. I have been to a few motivational talks myself and I had ones that moved me a lot emotionally. To get others motivated, one needs to be motivated himself.

There is no such thing as totally being unafraid of death. There will come a time, maybe a few moments that one would think of what it is and how it is in the after life and of how things will go on without that one being an entity or an existence in the world anymore, be it virtual or in reality itself. One will realize and then repent. One would not stop repenting until the time one surges one's will again and continue living up to the expectations of what one will do before death. Thinking that, "Hey this is the last few moments I am having with the ones I love. What am I doing right now?" And so one does whatever one could do make the best of one's life.

Some would travel all around the world. Others follow their undesired dream of climbing the utmost highest peak they could possibly reach. Kilimanjaro? Mount Fuji? Of course, the adventurous hearts internally would pick a more challenging range of course - to step into the ring of fire and not literally, but as well to satisfy this raging want to fulfill a greater need before leaving.

What's your fulfillment?

Beginnings and Ends

Can new things begin with an end? Can endings begin with a new beginning? You'll definitely ask how can this all be? The questions don't make sense at all. They're rediculous. Well...

Returning from a long stroll at Orchard, one of the busiest streets in town, I think people aren't what they really seem to be. We are meant to have not only one face, not two but more than that. We are defined not in our own ways. We don't define ourselves as who we are. Others keep telling me, 'be who you are' or 'be yourself'. But exactly how is myself? Others influence the way we are now. When they influence us, we adopt their opinion and definition. And that definition is definitely not fixed. It will vary from the various different people everyone come across.

When others give an opinion about us or on us, it is probably them who are making us ourselves. Let's say a guy named George with his two best homies - Carl and Slik. Carl and Slik were having a conversation or two over hot chocolate during a cold winter morning.

Carl: George was a little too generous in donating that much sum of money to the Children's Welfare Society.
Slik: Yea, he's probably doing a hell lot of a good deed right there. God bless him to the heavens.
Carl: I heard of sickly rumours of him imitating Mr. Hood. Won't that be too pesimistic of them to say such a threatening comment?

You see how Carl describes George as a generous person while the others thinks that George is trying to make himself seem like Robin Hood and therefore, are being called pesimistic people. See how two different sides or aspects of human beings in real life think of people. They are the ones defining George. He can never define himself. He's been infuenced too much on many things that he has gone through his life.

Carl approaches George, "You're a nice guy man, but that car... err.. doesn't suit you." That's when the level of definition climbs further in depth. But I am not going to go in that.

You have been better! Better because you've learnt from all the mistakes you did in your life? Well, I guess that's what a majority of the human population with sane minds think. Mistakes are just a form of correction of who you are. It makes you realize that that mistake is done by yourself or the person himself. That mistake is brought up from within. Say for example a CEO making the worst decision of his life, pulling out from a profitable strategy to promote its long lasting trusted brand and now due to the lack of funds or sponsorship, racing has come face to face with more loans to cover and the desperate needs for sponshorship.

Mistakes are what I think define people. We learn from it yes and then we move on to another stage of learning and making mistakes again and again. So when you hear one break down saying, 'Oh I can't do anything about it. I've made this mistake. It's all me.' Don't deny what he has said, because he's probably right. He can do better than just that mistake yes, but YOU are the one defining him for that. And when you do, it comes with a package of benefits which includes motivation. In the end, what we are are what others define us of. There isn't any such thing as we defining ourselves.

So back to the question, can new things begin with an end? New people having opinions about one can lead to one not having an opinion of oneself as it ends.

Can endings begin with a new beginning? I guess I have already answered what seems to be exactly it.