Society & Politics

Why So Serious?


Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.


—An African proverb as quote in Thomas Friedman



This is what we got used to do in our daily life, "running". How rush should we run? Where are we going? Is this even necessary to run that fast? We don't know. But we got used to it.


Trying hard to procede in education, trying hard to get along with advances in technology, learning techniqes of how to flirt better, how to perform better in bed, trying hard to promote in the career, trying hard to make better impressions on the oppisite sex and get more attentions... Aren't they what we do day by day? Aren't they what we have gathered here in this virtual community for?


Surely we live in this world to grow, to try, to experience, to make advance... Surely we all should do our bests to grow bigger and get better, but is this necessary to know all about these complications? Thinking about complications of new life every day, learning new things every day just to staying relevant, trying hard every day just to not get behind in this crazy race of life makes us frustrated.


Why So Serious?!


I myself am part of this virtual community. I asks questions, I learn new things, I try hard every day, I'm obsessed with the complications of this life. But sometimes, very rarely, I look over all of these stuff and think that life shouldn't be that complicated. There should be ways, not so twisted though, to enjoy the life's journey simpler. There should be ways, for girls and guys who are not pretty, who are not confident, who are not fit, who are not rich, but have a good heart, to live a happy life, without needing to learn magic tricks! May life has never been intended to be this complicated, maybe life is more plain and more naturally beautiful...

Why So Serious?
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