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If you never strive to live life your own way, who's ever going to live for you? You are not born in this world to satisfy other's expectation. Neither is anyone else born to satisfy your expectation.  If you insist on the things that is right for yourself, you should not be afraid of being hated by others.  If we care to stop and imagine for a while, for most of our waking hours, we constantly toil hard to maintain good people relationships; we thread cautiously in our speech for fear of offending others; we dare not speak up the truth since we are apprehensive about being condemned by the small social circle that we depend upon. This will not only cause us to concede the very principles that truly define who we are, and we may also make others think we are just being pretentious. Too concerned about what others think to a point where you lose yourself. Similar to what famous psychologist Alfred Adler has mentioned, in our interactions with other humans alike, w...

Always remember this: Never try to live a life afraid of making mistakes. For when you are afraid of making mistakes, you will have literally closed the doors to infinite possibilities. For when you are afraid of making mistakes, you will have missed a lot of beautiful scenes along the way. For when you are afraid of making mistakes, you will have missed the chances to create beautiful memories. For when you are afraid of making mistakes, you will have missed many opportunities to become a better version of yourself. For when you are afraid of making mistakes, you will have missed that dream of your lifetime. When the befallen mobile phone giant Nokia was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, Nokia CEO famously ended his speech by saying: "We didn't do anything wrong, but somehow we lost." Everyone from the management team began to tear sadly following that speech.  Indeed, Nokia might not have done anything wrong. But, clearly, doing nothing wrong was not enough. ...

If we care to step back from our daily worries and think deeply for just a moment, it is easy to conclude that we exist in this world to live out a certain purpose. To any other living organisms, protecting and ensuring the survival of their species are their only instincts. However, out of all living organisms on this Earth, we, as humans, seem to take Life most seriously. Throughout history, we have evolved and have become so sophisticated that worrying for our own basic physiological needs has simply been reduced to a small footnote in our lives. We have explored ideas and along the way, spawned so many activities (Sports, Politics, Hollywood glamour, etc.) that are seemingly unrelated to simply protecting survival. This is essentially tied to one thing: To live life happily with a sense of satisfaction. We have reached an age where we are able to make many choices in Life. However, we are, by nature, denied the information we would need to make the best choices with ultimate...

With today's increasingly connected society, Time has been an integral part of our lives in synchronizing tasks. The flight is scheduled at 9 am tomorrow. That basketball match is taking place tonight at 7 pm. No matter what kind of activities we involve ourselves in, getting to know the Time is certainly of utmost importance in navigating through our lives. Our incessant need to keep track of Time sort of beleaguers us to being slaves of our own invention. In olden times where Time was presented in a different texture, nature was our only calling in life. The movement of the Sun and Moon was our only way of telling the time. Time used to be a commodity which is seemingly in abundance and endless. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, our relentless race against the literal and our biological clock to try and amass ever more has sparked a phenomenal growth in amazing technologies that aim to surpass the current limits. Over centuries, we have made use of technologies to e...

Most of us have been through days where we find life seemingly unfair. However, the reality of Life is always fair, it just depends on which perspective you view Life to be. It is our outlook of equality in this life that needs to be fixed. None of us can win forever and when you are losing, most of what goes on around you will naturally just look grossly unfair to you. The concrete rules of life should be evident to all of us and the main reason why most of us never really get to comprehend them is because the rules can appear to be uncomfortable for us to face them upfront. All of us go about our lives yearning for some sort of authority or control. This idea of authority holds different meaning to each of us. No matter how differing this notion may mean for us, it will always converge to each of our own  sense of self . Our sense of self is an integral part of our lives. It  helps to define the choices that we have in this world and it enables us to be independent and...

If you ever find yourself constantly being bothered by the same problems everyday,  you should not just sit back and expect the problems to change for the better someday . Instead, you should expect that one day you s hall possess the choice to  leave the problems behind and move on. It is not up to you to dictate the changes in your surroundings, for there are way too many factors that will need to line up in order for the situations around your surroundings to tilt in your favour. I n order for things to change for the better, h owever, you only need to commit yourself to change Change in itself is never easy, for you are bound to meet with many resistance along the way. That is why you should set goals; and that is why you should work even harder to become a better version of yourself. Until a point where you can finally have the choice to leave your problems in the dust. image credit: J. Money You must never be afraid to always give yourself a challeng...

Your hard work may turn into nothing of value when it is coming from someone else's mouth. The endless behind-the-scenes efforts in getting something to fruition may be judged by others as something that can be easily done by anyone given enough time and resources. After all, things are always easier said than done. Truth be told, these people, or anyone for that matter, may actually be able to succeed. Only that they lack the necessary actions required for actual execution; only that they lack the undying determination to see it through to the end; only that they lack the fiery passion in them to fuel their ambitions; only that they lack the undaunted courage to continue despite the many struggles; and only that they lack the sincerity to convince others to believe their visions. Credit: Romain Guy (Flickr) Never let those people who can only talk stop you in your tracks. The person that is advancing through your own actions is you and absolutely ...