I'm sure you have heard of this phrase 'double-edged sword'; so today it's going to be about pros and cons... (Did I write this before? It sounds familiar.... hahha)
Now, pros can cons about?
"Being contented" - That's the topic today. Or rather, that's the idea behind the topic. (Just crapping here... hahha) Chinese has this phrase "知足常乐" and "知足长乐". No, they are not the same. ( I just realised that too) As for the meaning, please read below, while I continue with writing. :)
In essence, they both talk about the goodness of being contented. But contentment has many aspects, and I'm going specifically into being content about the material goods (money) that one has. This is because I feel that it applies to me.
Firstly, as what the Chinese phrase means above, if one is contented, one will feel happy. He or she will not be jealous about what the others has, and will be happy over what one has. If one gets 'enlightened' further, one will realise that everything is just a want and not a need (看破红尘). This is good because he or she will not get tempted by anything, like for example, smuggling drugs to earn big money.
If one sees everything as a want, he or she will not spend any money on anything else, except for those for survival, he or she will be rich in no time. (Maybe, after a long period of time?) But no matter what, the point is that the person will be rich, even though he or she does not hanker over wealth.
But, there's a down side of being contented with things too. If one is contented with everything and does not buy anything, how will the economy survive? (Economy survives on demand. Without demand, they will die off) And if everyone is contented, how will there be any improvement? Imagine Singapore 50 years ago. If everyone back then was happy about how they lived, I guess we would still be the same as then too, with no changes.
Also, if one is contented with life, there would be no motivation for anything. Take a student for example. If he or she was contented with everything, no matter what carrot his or her parent dangle, he or she would not care less about it. And if the carrot was supposed to motivate the child to do better in studies, wouldn't the child's results remain the same, because he or she can't be bothered about those material goods, and also because he or she is very much contented with the results?
Lastly, one who is contented might see no value in money, even though he or she might have a lot. This is because, since one doesn't see the need of buying things, he or she would not care much about money. Lets look things in another perspective. If one who hankers over material goods, he or she will know how expensive some thing are, and will scrimp and save just to get the stuff he or she wants. Through this, the person will see the value of money and cherish it.
However, if one is contented, he or she will not see the value of money, as he or she doesn't see what money can do. To them, it's just pieces of paper/plastic, nothing much. It would not matter much, even if the money was thrown away, since it's worthless. And that's the dangerous part.
For me, I think I am one of those, and that's why I can just lend money to people. I don't really care about it. If it's lost (ie, the person doesn't return), then so be it. Nothing serious. Is that good or bad? O: I don't know.
So, contentment is a double edged sword, whether it's good or bad, think about it and conclude on your own.
Till then, goodbye.
Namefulless
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Ps:
知足长乐: 知道满足就会快乐
知足常乐: 知道满足，满足于已经得到的
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How many days has it been since October 24? Let me check... Okay, it has been 20 days. Half a month. Maybe I should learn from Channel U; you know the advertisement? “某某现在很忙，忙着什么?” So, mine would be “无名氏现在很忙，忙着什么呢？我阵忙着服装比赛” hahhaa
As someone said, we go to school when it's dark, and reach home in the dark (that is, during normal school days ). During the holidays, my days would most of the time start at 8am in the school and ending at around 6pm.
But why was I even involved in this in the first place? This has to go back to the start of the year, when the teacher told me that I was going to join the competition. “You going to join the clean and green fashion competition arh. You the only boy, must join” I think it's something like that... hahaha
But, the thing is that, I have no whatsoever interest in fashion. Such a irony.
So what's my job scope? I'm not the designer, so I did not design any costumes. So, what I did was to help the designers with their costumes. So for example, when they needed to paste something, I would paste it for them.
But luckily, most of the time (actually all the time), what I did was quite simple, such as painting and pasting. It was the designers who did the difficult jobs, like painting the stockings and making the necklaces. So, I think that I had quite an easy time. :D Thank God for that.
Progress was quite slow before the holidays, we didn't do much. We really picked up, only during the last week of the term, and the first week of the holidays. Before the school term ended, we would go there after school ended, and stayed there till the teacher had to leave for home to cook. Hahaha
So it was during the last two weeks, that we made the skirts and then touched up others, in preparation for the competition on the 10th and 11th of November. On the first day of the competition, we were in school by 6.30am, and left school for the competition venue at 7.15am.
We were there till 4 plus in the afternoon, when the results came out and as expected, we got into the finals.
Finals was similar to the day before, just that the models wore more accessories and had more elaborate make-ups (this is the art of keeping the best till the last).
As some of you all should know by now, we once again won the first prize, but not without some unhappiness. It seems that the organisers didn't like our school....
Now that it's over right, I actually feel weird. Because, I have been busy for the past few weeks, and had been in school for the whole day... Now, I do not have anything to do! There's the feeling of emptiness, not knowing what to do... What should I do? O: hahhahha
STUPID WEIRDO... hahhah
Gah, I seriously need to learn how to summarise things... haahha
CK, I will research on it soon, and it should be in the next post... hahah
So people, watch out for the next one! Muhahhaha :D
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