If you have a question to ask to me what my lifetime hobby is, I will answer, undoubtedly and decisively: learning how to live my live very well. I know that life is something very unique, it’s not ubiquitous to every person in every corner on streets in Jakarta, Paris, New York, Dakkar, Abu Ghrabi, etc. Everybody has his own story, not a common good. For some degree, I really like wise words from Forrest Gump, one of my lifetime favorite films, that are ‘life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get’. It accentuates the mystery of one’s life in it in a simple example of a common stuff. In everything I do, I can name it from something very simple up to the most elaborative I can do, I always starve for some kind of moral message in it as I believe that there is nothing I do or have done in vain for further development of me, but it’s not the aim of this posting. I just want to tell how a movie can really make you feel more aware, spirited, and moving at the same time, to the least.
For instance, every time I feel like watching movies, actually sometimes I have no special purposes in it, though. However, if you can learn something from doing it, is it like a bonus, yes? This film is a kind of a moving film, in a sense that it teaches you how to cherish the life you got, not to stop struggling and craving for unexpected extremely happy ending life, including your love story, and to remember something very memorable in your life because someday it can be very helpful, like the magnificent Jamal, whose life is full of surprises, fortunate, and happy events.
Yes, of course, you can’t learn how to live a life from merely reading piles of thousands of books or watching hours of movies. There is no text book, or alike for it. But, I this Slumdog Millionaire will give you some thought of how you should live your life, I suppose. Anyway, one of the interesting parts of it is that we can see how poor Indian is, only slightly different from Indonesian, especially Mumbai. Thus, there is still a big hope for us to thrive, focusing our energy on advancing knowledge. Oops, sorry, this is another story...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Life and Rational Expectation
What’s life? Is it something to be stressed about or something that we should be grateful at? The world where we live is full of opposites, of which are the most troublesome adjective for most people, I suppose. Please tell me if you know there is something which doesn’t have its opposite and none of us don’t get mad at, because I am very eager to figure it out. People always feel something bad and sometimes for God for their miserable life if something unexpected opposite happens to them. There is black, there is white; there is day, there is dark; there is man, there is woman; there is happiness, there is sadness, etc. Consequently, no need to deeply brood over it, since when something comes, its opposite will replace it, regardless of time period of the replacement. Believe it or not, sun rises in the morning and hides itself when moon starts showing up. It’s timely and kind of beset every day. I know it’s not something extraordinary.
However, when the winter comes, the period changes. It’s no longer like in regular days; we can change our prediction in the winter, then. I know it’s a poor analogy to life, but the basic moral of this is that when something bad happens to you it will be replaced by something good, vice versa. So, don’t be so upset when something bad makes a visit to you, and, vice versa, don’t be so happy when something good happens to you because it can be replaced with something you have never expected before. See? Expectation plays a big role in life. I am so grateful that I have got a chance to study rational expectation in economics that teaches me to change my expectation, when some variables change.
The main problem here is that not so many people can manage their expectations. In return, some people may consider this life as a kind of proof that you are an imperfect living creature, that can be angry, depressed, and, interestingly, happy in just the short period of time and not to be able to make rational decisions every time. Some people consider this life as a curse because they have been experiencing so much severe pain in his whole life full of torturing, grieves, lost, and so many hard feelings. As a result, most of them might ask not to be delivered in this world and hope to die in young age. For them, I can conclude, life is something to be stressed about.
In my definition, life is something that can prove your existence as a human being since in this life you can feel the bitterness and sweetness of life. Therefore, I feel like this life as something that would make you a ‘real’ human being. By living in this world, human beings can taste such things, which are challenges for our everyday life. Life can make you explore all of your moral, intelligence, and feeling capability in order to survive. And of that, you can be more perfect every minute. To a large part, it’s exciting, indeed. I am not saying life is to be grateful at or stressed about, either because I am far from being able to recall my memory of who I was if I happened not to be born in this world. Thus, I can’t make an objective comparison, then.
The only thing I can say is that I love to live in this unique world even though sometimes I don’t feel very comfortable with my life. What about you, folks? Do you think life is something to be stressed about, or the exact opposite of it, that is something that should be grateful at?
However, when the winter comes, the period changes. It’s no longer like in regular days; we can change our prediction in the winter, then. I know it’s a poor analogy to life, but the basic moral of this is that when something bad happens to you it will be replaced by something good, vice versa. So, don’t be so upset when something bad makes a visit to you, and, vice versa, don’t be so happy when something good happens to you because it can be replaced with something you have never expected before. See? Expectation plays a big role in life. I am so grateful that I have got a chance to study rational expectation in economics that teaches me to change my expectation, when some variables change.
The main problem here is that not so many people can manage their expectations. In return, some people may consider this life as a kind of proof that you are an imperfect living creature, that can be angry, depressed, and, interestingly, happy in just the short period of time and not to be able to make rational decisions every time. Some people consider this life as a curse because they have been experiencing so much severe pain in his whole life full of torturing, grieves, lost, and so many hard feelings. As a result, most of them might ask not to be delivered in this world and hope to die in young age. For them, I can conclude, life is something to be stressed about.
In my definition, life is something that can prove your existence as a human being since in this life you can feel the bitterness and sweetness of life. Therefore, I feel like this life as something that would make you a ‘real’ human being. By living in this world, human beings can taste such things, which are challenges for our everyday life. Life can make you explore all of your moral, intelligence, and feeling capability in order to survive. And of that, you can be more perfect every minute. To a large part, it’s exciting, indeed. I am not saying life is to be grateful at or stressed about, either because I am far from being able to recall my memory of who I was if I happened not to be born in this world. Thus, I can’t make an objective comparison, then.
The only thing I can say is that I love to live in this unique world even though sometimes I don’t feel very comfortable with my life. What about you, folks? Do you think life is something to be stressed about, or the exact opposite of it, that is something that should be grateful at?
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