Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I'm currently going through Alienation. It means going through a process of being separated from true self. Now i do not evaluate my life in terms of what i want to do but what i own and what i consume!
To this part, you must be wondering what the hell i'm talking about right. Give you an example! When i was in secondary school, i thought that basketball is a sport that i can play till the day i can no longer run. I wanted to join a well reputation basketball club. But because the importance of studies predominates over basketball, i have to give it up for the time being. Then finally graduated from secondary school, got a chance to relive the basketball thinkings. And yes i did join a club and played some competition. I continued to be like this for the next 2 years. Basketball was part of me at that point of time. 2 years gone and i've left the club. I start to notice that in order to go to the next level of basketball, i have to improve and spend more time on it. But in this Singapore society, i'm forced to make a decision between What you want and What you own, consume? Slowly, i spent lesser and lesser and lesser time and lost touch of it..Very soon, i went down hill. And slowly i'm being seperated from my true self.
This is happening because i'm living in a capitalist society, where profit predominates above all else. And as individuals, we are surrounded by certain expectations! We conform to these expectation is becuase the society constrain us to act in certain ways.
After understanding what i'm going through, i finally can answer the question that i've asked myself in the previous posting. Good night people.
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