What Do I KNow...?

Pros and Cons...

Hmm...can things in life be judged by pros and cons? Should the way we live our life be cheapened by categorizing and analysing every aspect of it and listing all its good points and bad points?

I for one do not believe that life pros and cons can be applied to life itself. For example, marriage! As was proposed by a friend of mine. Should we label out the pros and cons of marriage and then base our decisions on how many pros or cons it has. Should life be so objective? Sure it would be much easier to make decisions and avoid risks...but then again the best way of avoiding risks are to not live at all! As we financial planners say, the best way to avoid risk is to not invest at all.

Life is not like buying a camera. Unlike a camera, we can't judge if something is good or not or should be embraced by another based whether it has a "higher mega-pixel count" or "anti-shake function" or "stylish casing". Everyone has different personalities and priorities and therefore assess the various aspects of life with different degrees of importance as well.

For example, going to uni. Most of us agree that going to uni is important because it would help us create a foundation to later build our careers on. But besides that, what other pros do the uni offer? We have endure the suffering of mugging, failing, going to lectures and listen to boring old lecturers mumble on, doing homework, stress from home for not studying...the list goes on. All to graduate with a degree that is hardly recognised in the current working environment. Now the minimun requirement to be noticed by fairly important companies is to have at least two degrees or a master in something...

Some of us beg to differ. Some prefer to join the workforce right after highschool thinking that it would give them a head start. 3 years of working experience counts alot more than 3 years of mugging. At least that's what they think. Some prefer the in between and they go to polytechnics. While these people seem to lack the certain "higher qualification", they might beg to differ as to whether they will be doing worse than us who are currently now in the rat race of uni.

So all in all, life should not be assessed objectively as it truly undermines the quality of life one would be leading. Living is the process of experiencing everything - from failure to success, love to hate, pain to joy. Should anyone miss out on any of those...they have missed out on life itself.

Erm...dunno why i wrote this again, just had a need to. Its 3.14 am and i should be sleeping. Class starts at 4.00 in the evening tomorrow but i gotta get up early to go and do shopping for pot luck tomorrow night. So yeah...nites!!

posted by Just lil' ol' me @ 9:59 AM