Part Ways

Happiness does have its degree. At least that is what I got from the reading “The Degree of Happiness” by Betrand Russell. I was blur myself when I first read the article. It is because, in all conscience I’ve never assume such things. For me back then, happiness is fair among everyone. Happiness is for everyone, no matter how young they are, how old they are, how poor they are, and how rich they are. But this article has open my mentality a bit more by parting the degree of “happiness”.

The article tells that it has two sorts of happiness. The first one is an example of the happiness of a farmer. In other view, the story seemingly represents the happiness that can be reached by the normal-living-level of people, a farmer.  It tells about how a farmer could reach his happiness. For this kind of group of people, even the things that they do is just a little, like farming for example, but it can totally made their day and cheer them up. Why? It is because the happiness and pleasure that they might get is from their own hardships. For instance, they harvest, and the outcome they got is from their own work, so that’s why they appreciate it to the max and get happily easily with it.

But in contradict, let’s see the happiness that the higher level of people might get. Like in the article, they listed artists and literary men as their examples. Yes, it’s possible for them to reach their happiness, but in a different way. They are actually depending on other people’s reaction and acceptance towards their work of arts. Because if the people out there like their work, of course they’ll get happy, but what about if the results turn out to be the opposite? It could knock them down to the ground until reaching a state of having a mental illness. Basically, the article did open my eyes about how happiness being described from different point of views. 

Think Smart, Not Hard

 

As I read the article Thinking Folly by Eckhart Toli, I might be reviewing the article not by hundred per cent referring to the article. Because I think I would like to interpret the article based on my own side of view.  In the article basically tells about how hard ones think using our brain.

In my last post, I did encourage people to think, use their brain wisely and critically towards anything that’s in front of their eyes.  But here, it might have a bit contradiction yet, in a good way. What I think about the article is, as a human being that have a similar state of mentality, yes we do need to think our brain wisely and critically but not more than that.

What I mean by not more than that is, just imagine if we overthink on most of everything? It might ruins everything. And as a human being, it has become mostly like a norm where we’ve been controlled by our own little tiny brain. That shouldn’t be happening because we are the one who needs to take control of the brain instead.

 

As we can see smart people out there, because of they overly think on most of everything, we can see that they are suffering. Maybe not a visible one, but emotionally suffered. They are tired, tired of thinking. What has come to my concern is that, such situation could damage us. And what happen when everything’s damaged? I don’t want to know.

It would be such a waste. A waste of smart people. Because of the overly think, it seems like they are killing themselves without even noticing it. There are no problems with thinking critically, but yet please do avoid, thinking overly. 

After A While

 

Test Your Brain is such an interactive show discovers about critical thinking. Think outside of the box to be précised. This series puts your grey matter to the ultimate test. In Test Your Brain scientists and illusionists, such as magician David Copperfield, perform a series of experiments to discover how the way in which you perceive the world is often astonishingly far removed from reality!

Normally, we wouldn’t think something as critical as we should isn’t it? But once we think, and we found the solving on something, we would feel such a relief and to be honest, the feeling of proud in us could be seen. This show definitely gives us something we would never expect. It opens our eyes even wider on things that we least take notice of.

This show parts in three sections, which are Test Your Brain: Pay Attention, Test Your Brain: Perception, and Test Your Brain: Memory. And undeniably, all of three of them attract me a lot. Each section has their own way to attract out attention in using our brain solely. As I watch the show, I could feel deep down inside, I’m definitely lacking of concentration.  The show test our brain in a way of distracting out main attention and see do we really paying attention actually? And I could feel clearly that I haven’t used my brain solely before this.

Maybe for some people, to watch such show of documentary would be boring, but it depends on certain circumstances. Like for me, I found it totally interesting. Like I’ve said earlier, it opened my eyes a little bit more even on littlest things. It can be conclude that by using our brain like we should, could bring lots of benefits to our everyday life. So, do test your brain today!

 

Not Just an Animation Movie

The Adventures of Tintin (known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicornoutside North America) is a 2011 American 3D motion capture adventure film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé (Georges Remi). Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the film is based on three of the original comic books: The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943), and Red Rackham's Treasure(1944). It is the first-ever animated film for both Spielberg and his long-time collaborator, composer John Williams.

With a strong team behind the production of the movie, no wonder the outcome of this movie is undeniably amazing. This kind of animation feature film is obviously hardly to be found these days. Plus, this movie di include deductive reasoning skills throughout the main character, Tintin. There are so many things we could learn from this movie actually. Especially when it comes to Tintin’s enthusiastic characteristics, he’s still young, but that doesn’t stop him to do things that he love even how impossible the things are in our perspective.

 

Adventurous yet thrilling are the best words that could describe this movie. It’s a movie that not just suitable for kids, but for all ages since it is an animated movie but with a feature film’s identity in it. It’s totally not the cliché type of animated movie like what we already have in the market up until now. Throughout the movie, I can feel myself arouse from my seat everytime the thrilling parts came out.

Sometimes I have had a thought about how possible people like Steven Spielberg could come out with such ideas in directing movie again. In conclusion, this animated film is well done and well accepted by the citizens around the world.

Expect the Unexpected.

 

As I watched a movie called Animal Farm, a 1999 tv movie directed by John Stephenson, one word came from my mouth, weird. The film tells the story of how the animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among them.

Honestly saying, this movie kind of weird to me in a way of, how possible animals could act such ways like in the movie. Especially when the movie centres Pigs as the dominant or leaders among other animal, it’s not that I have issues or offensive towards pigs, but I’m just being realistic. Who loves pigs? We hardly find one right? So, that is my point. By putting Pigs as the main roles, the viewer’s surely won’t feel comfortable throughout the whole movie.   

Another thing that bothers me during the movie was I keep on wondering why human, could look up to animal and even deal with them and even treat them at the same level as human. Maybe I hardly figure out the production’s intention in delivering this movie’s message, but in my eyes, everything seems not right everywhere. For me, animals are animals, and humans are humans. There are gaps over there. Plus, in the movie, the pig named Napoleon can even interact with humans in the movie. What is the point, I am not sure.

All in all, it’s not that I hundred per cent objecting this movie because from afar, I did see the message that they are trying to deliver to the audience. But maybe they had used a method that my mentality hardly accepts from the beginning until the end. Maybe I’m discriminating on an obvious way, but I’m just letting out my thoughts about this movie. How about you? Make your judgement today.

He is Not Perfect After All

 

 

When you heard the name “Steve Jobs”, of course the first thing that came across your mind would be, genius! There is no doubt that he was a genius. But being a genius doesn’t guarantee him to be perfect, have a perfect life, and even perfect personality.

Many of us weren’t aware at all of Steve Jobs’ personality. Maybe because he had cherished our life too much with his creativity in inventing phenomenal high technology products right? Yes, he was. He was the one who lighten up our days with amazing gadgets from Apple. Everyone knows that. But the thing now is, what people don’t know that what Steve Jobs was really like back then?

After the shocking news of his death at the end of 2011, the ugly truth has come out. The Steve Jobs that nobody knew. Only then people dare to open up such things about him. For what circumstances? I barely know myself. Maybe he was not as perfect as people imagined. What I mean by the ugly truth is, only now we know that Steve Jobs was not that good actually. As the brand Apple managed to capture the fame among society, Steve Jobs also changed.

Yes, people changed. He changed by being a hot tempered person, demanding perfectionist, and even irresponsible. This was the worst part. Back then, he was in a long relationship with his girlfriend and even made her pregnant. But unfortunately, Steve Jobs strongly denied the issue and just left her girlfriend abandoned with the child. We can see how irresponsible he was after fame has taken over everything in a person.

Such a disappointment because so many look up to him to be a good role model. But this is a total unexpected matter. Nobody ever thought the dark side of Steve Jobs isn’t it? So here is the proof, nobody is perfect.

 

 

Happyness is Yours Finally

 

Will Smith played the role of Christopher Gardner based on a true story film, The Pursuit of Happyness. In the film, Gardner was then a homeless salesman who suffered from the life pressure. He was a salesman who invested his family saving just in order to try demonstrating and selling portable bone-density scanners to doctors. But unfortunately his plan just turned such burdensome to him and turned his life upside down. Not just that, his wife also left him because she thought that they have no future anymore. Luckily Gardner still has his only son, Christopher Jr. played by Smith’s off-screen son, Jaden.

Based on my opinion, this movie has such a strong value for example we can see Smith’s character have gone through from ups and downs from the start until the end. He’s such a strong man physically and mentally just to reach one goal, happiness. Not just for his happiness, also for his son’s. Especially can be seen when his wife left him with nothing and after his plan for the scanners were turned down, that forced him to be homeless. At that moment, it honestly left me almost teary-eyed to see Gardner and his son unwillingly to spend their night at the subway’s bathroom.

Honestly saying, I hardly bear to see this kind of struggle ones need to face. But this is the reality we as a human need to humbly endure in our life. With such a strong and heartfelt performance by Will Smith, the movie has no doubt and proven to be a great movie with a precious value. His character never simply gave up in anything that he does.  Because in life, giving up is never be the answer to solve our problems. Because life is never unfair, the thing is we just need to wait for it to come. Sooner or later. Like in the end of the movie, it tells us that Christopher Gardner finally gets his happiness by getting a new job and later, owning a multi-million brokerage firm.