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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Pareto improvement.

Do people really have to suffer up to a certain extent before they learn a valuable lesson? Are we really incapable of reaching a point in our lives where we are able to automatically comprehend the potential lessons that would surface and bring us enlightenment, should a particular event occur. I am convinced critical thinking would possibly make suffering obsolete in some instances. If we could just, actually think carefully, and make use of the abundance of bad historical decisions that exist around us, to our advantage. And don't give me that "not everyone can do that" bullshit. You're right. And wrong. Everyone can, albeit eventually, do that. I've seen it, and I am impressed by the few who had taken full advantage of their ability to gradually attain this thought process.

I'm still pretty much adamant on the idea that there really is a more effective way to grasp life's lessons without having to go through a bad patch yourself. There're so many people living around you. What a waste it would be, if you prefer not to free-ride and instead expend unnecessary time and energy towards undergoing something perceivably bad, yet highly preventable.

Hahahahahhahaha to be honest, after rereading that whole chunk above, I almost convinced myself I am a selfish prick, making use of another person's impoverishment to my advantage. But let's stop and think, and then reveal to ourselves where true selfishness lies. The dude hasn't got much to lose now, and you have something to gain from that, haven't you? If I may add, I believe in being an opportunist, ESPECIALLY when I am able to prevent another person from being worse off, whilst becoming better, off of him.

Wait a minute.. am I suggesting a shift towards Pareto Optimality in life..?? #kwakwa

But really.. Isn't that the end goal we should all reach out for? WE ARE DEFINITELY STILL FAR OFF THE SCALE. There're no bullshit assumptions limiting us to only two goods. Our graphs ain't pathetically 2-dimensional.. Nobody ever said the goods in our market were limited to the tangible ones.. SO LET'S TRADE BARBARICALLY WHY DONT WE?

Ok, ok. Fine..

I really want to admit that there has been an ever-increasing interest in my study of economics in school, at this point.. But I'm afraid if I do that now I would've possibly challenged myself to do well for that subject in 15 days time. Hardly anybody ever admits, in the open, that they really enjoy whatever it is they're learning in school! It's preposterous! And is taboo!

And you know what else is, apparently, taboo..? Ending a post abruptly.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Pareto improvement. Do people really have to suffer up to a certain extent before they learn a valuable lesson? Are we really incapable of reaching a point in our lives where we are able to automatically comprehend the potential lessons that would surface and bring us enlightenment, should a particular event occur. I am convinced critical thinking would possibly make suffering obsolete in some instances. If we could just, actually think carefully, and make use of the abundance of bad historical decisions that exist around us, to our advantage. And don't give me that "not everyone can do that" bullshit. You're right. And wrong. Everyone can, albeit eventually, do that. I've seen it, and I am impressed by the few who had taken full advantage of their ability to gradually attain this thought process. I'm still pretty much adamant on the idea that there really is a more effective way to grasp life's lessons without having to go through a bad patch yourself. There're so many people living around you. What a waste it would be, if you prefer not to free-ride and instead expend unnecessary time and energy towards undergoing something perceivably bad, yet highly preventable. Hahahahahhahaha to be honest, after rereading that whole chunk above, I almost convinced myself I am a selfish prick, making use of another person's impoverishment to my advantage. But let's stop and think, and then reveal to ourselves where true selfishness lies. The dude hasn't got much to lose now, and you have something to gain from that, haven't you? If I may add, I believe in being an opportunist, ESPECIALLY when I am able to prevent another person from being worse off, whilst becoming better, off of him. Wait a minute.. am I suggesting a shift towards Pareto Optimality in life..?? #kwakwa But really.. Isn't that the end goal we should all reach out for? WE ARE DEFINITELY STILL FAR OFF THE SCALE. There're no bullshit assumptions limiting us to only two goods. Our graphs ain't pathetically 2-dimensional.. Nobody ever said the goods in our market were limited to the tangible ones.. SO LET'S TRADE BARBARICALLY WHY DONT WE? Ok, ok. Fine.. I really want to admit that there has been an ever-increasing interest in my study of economics in school, at this point.. But I'm afraid if I do that now I would've possibly challenged myself to do well for that subject in 15 days time. Hardly anybody ever admits, in the open, that they really enjoy whatever it is they're learning in school! It's preposterous! And is taboo! And you know what else is, apparently, taboo..? Ending a post abruptly. Thursday, April 16, 2015 Pursuit from happiness. People talk about lowering expectations, in order to prevent suffering from a huge disappointment later on. I hear this every now and then from the people around me. Yet I hardly see them 'suffer' from the 'side effects' of having such a mindset. What the fuck do I mean..?? I'm talking about lowering expectations on all, real, aspects in life instead of just lowering it to prevent sadness or disappointment. While drawing out a mind map to help me remember how to prevent, if not control and regulate a sudden bout of negative feelings, the SOPs I've conjured up have inevitably diffused through its extremely thin-layered bubble and onto the rest of the categories. My feelings end up being incredibly short-lived. I'd laugh at a joke and get over it. If it's good enough I'd use its context, personalize it and then share it in my notorious monotonous voice. (Apparently the skill of sharing a joke happily and with much expression is still pretty incomprehensible to me) It's getting tougher and tougher to satisfy a prolonged happiness in me. I am constantly appeased with whatever goes on around me. People tend to assume immediately, when they read what I've written above, that I seem like a sad person. I am not, because the value of grief is very minute to me. The next rational thing to do would be to put aside sadness and do something about it. The thought of being able to spring myself up from concrete rubble overwhelms true sadness. Neither am I truly happy, because I'd soon realize life will still have its negative forces constantly reigning down upon me as I try to scrape through this life, decade by decade. The thought of that overwhelms true happiness. (Of course, this applies only to me, some people struggle way more, and some, way less.) "Sounds like a really mundane way of leading life Khai." Maybe it is to you, because you've wrongfully portrayed me as a really dull person. Surprisingly my life is eventful enough to my liking. I've just stopped dwelling in the realm of extreme, fluctuated feelings. I know they're there, but why travel so far up and down the y-axis when in all honestly, you already know what's there, and we're all headed towards the end of the x-axis? Perhaps..... I'm still waiting for the right time i.e. when negative forces lose its omnipotence against me. But in the meantime, "I would have to say that if I were to find bliss in this world, it would be in my own mind. My imagination is the source of any and all happiness I may ever hope to actualize, simply because its capacity is infinite. In my mind, I can achieve anything and everything; pontificate my ideas, compose arbitrary melodies, write novels that will never be published. My Kingdom of Imagination is a vast haven, a refuge, and when the external world fails me (as it recurrently does), a necessary retreat." (I apologize for the cheesy aforementioned, feelings vs life-timeline graph analogy on behalf of Econs and Math.) Which reminds me................. Tuesday, April 14, 2015 An increasing foresight is proportional to suffering. If it's untrue, maybe you haven't suffered enough. Well................. Hi. 3 more weeks to my first exam in idk how fucking long. Shit's getting real. I am appalled by the amount of time I've put into this nonsense and the non-corresponding amount of knowledge I've managed to retain in my brain. Its capacity is mediocre at best and that in itself is a burden to my life during this phase. Whenever I study at home though, and subconsciously catch a glimpse of my environment and the people living in it, I feel like I need to make a drastic change happen in the near future. It is tiring to maintain this drive towards that goal and yet I feel I do not deserve to feel this tired, it's been less than a year of hard work. This whole staying resilient thing is harder than I've expected but I MUST comprehend its dynamics lest I end up being the contradicting outcome to whatever I've constantly been preaching to myself in my very own mind. I abhor the idea that the potentiality of the latter occurring is still unsurprisingly large, at this juncture. Simply because it is detrimental to my forthcoming and whoever it is that's gonna remain in that perception of what life would eventually be like. I wonder, and then I wander even further until I realize what I really want is for the current wondering to stop. This phase. Near future. This juncture. Forthcoming. & Current. Is it not vehemently present ^, the incoherence of the timeline I have expressed via my thought process, in reflecting what I have otherwise perceived to be smooth sailing? Started this post off-the-cuff, trying to adopt some sense of chronology. Guess I fucked up.
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