It must be age, but I think I get pissed off more easily nowadays. I see that in friends around my age group too. Sometimes I bite my tongue, a few times I do snap back at them. I try to count my blessings and let things pass, but some days it stays with me for a while. I am using this week’s blog to vet it out and hopefully, it will purge the negativity out of my system.
I really cannot stand people who complain all the time, thinking that the world owes them a living. I try to avoid such people as much as I can because I think negativity is contagious while one has to constantly work harder to seek happiness.
Just like the recent National day celebrations we had, I attended the preview parade last week. The live performance was amazing and it made me feel really proud of my country. Some scenes of everyday people struggling through life brought tears to my eyes.
I am thankful for the personal material gains I have had over the last 53 years of independence as our little red dot of a country managed to transformed itself onto the world stage. But yet, there are citizens who constantly complain about everything the government does. Talk is cheap on social media but you never see action from these people.
Some of my good friends do so sometimes, but when challenged by a call to action instead of being a couch potato, the silence is deafening. Shouldn’t we be thankful for what we have been given, instead of bitching about everything? Being NATO (No Action, Talk Only) is really just pathetic.
While you can voice your opinion sometimes, you have to be objective and not become too personal in your attacks. Everyone makes mistakes once in a while, so do be nice and not scream mother and father when things go wrong. Its easier to poke holes at anything, rather than lift a finger to help and co-operate.
In this internet age, we have an avalanche of news pushed into our faces and one has to exercise a bit of personal discretion to determine truth from fact, thrash-talk from conspiracy theories. The bombardment is overwhelming and the deeper you go into one end, it just sucks you up further into its food chain of hate and ridiculousness.
I have a friend that just love conspiracy theories but yet believes that he is impartial, claiming that he watches all news from the alt-right/left, centralists and even Russian news. He is a smart and logical guy, but yet I have a nagging feeling that he just loves a good conspiracy story over facts sometimes. I don’t claim to be right all the time but I try to study things a bit more before taking a view. I am human after all too.
I believe that many small happiness experiences are better than a few big happy ones, that they will last longer. Looking forward to a walk in the park can be my highlight of the day and it perks me up for hours after that. Or a long run in the morning before my brunch and papers.
On the investment front, I managed to gather a group of friends on Monday to attend an investment proposal I had been looking at for the last few months. It was an ambitious plan to commercially jump-start an aquaponics venture. While the terms can only be finalized early next year, it was great to meet up with old ex-colleagues again.
Who knows, this may be the start of many reviews of new investment proposals as I seek a new career path. I had a lunch catch up with the business people yesterday to provide some feedback. We talked about many other topics and then new business opportunities emerged. It was exciting for me as I could leverage on my Myanmar network to work on possible future China tie-ups.
The future is exciting and it is up to oneself to make the best of it. The glass can be half empty or half full. You can look at the bright side of things or the negative part only. I choose to smell the roses and live life to its fullest by staying positive, happy and healthy all the time. I wish you all the same too.
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