The Point
I have been just really really busy for sometime now. Well maybe has been for a long time, it all started when I got a job with school at the same time. It was like I boarded this non-stop fast train that just goes on and on. I constantly feel tired, and constantly feel the need to stop, but never did. Then I slowly realize one thing, I have become a prisoner of my own life. Maybe this is what modern life really is, you are just busy doing something, then you forget why you are doing it in the first place, but somehow you feel obliged to keep going. Strangely enough, it is until recently the need to find the meaning behind all these has started haunting through out the day.
In Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford in 2005, he said that we ought to have faith believing in what we do, because after all, that is all we have. The value of what we are doing now can only be reflected in the future. These were not the exact words, but just the idea. I totally agree with the idea, but when I look at today’s world and look back, it is just impossible to have any faith at all.
Hundreds of years ago, people went to other’s land, took their wealth, and their lives along the process. They came home being loved and treated as heroes. What is happening now is of litter difference. People go to other’s land take their oil, and their beloved ones along the process. The come home being loved, because they have just saved one dollar for people’s daily gas budgets. So what’s changed? Only now, people have better weapons that take out more lives with a single blow. And the satellite can broadcast the live killing picture to people over their breakfast, which is apparently of little effect to their numb conscience. It really seems like science is not taking us anywhere closer to our civilization, but rather to our demise.
