it amazes me how i managed to let this idea get stuck in my head...
i have for sometime wanted to write a post on this topic...
but due to much laziness...
i procrastinated as usual...
at least i am keeping a steady monthly entry...
persistence and determination unlike before...
have u ever wondered about the education we received when we were young?...
specifically when we are babies...
hardly aware of the dangers around us...
relying on everything our parents or elders tell us...
making sense of the world from the their teaching...
yet recently while observing a relative's newborn...
i can't help but realized how the things we were taught when we were babies contradicts what is expected of us as we grew up...
for instance...
we were told kissing is a friendly gesture...
how our parents encourage us to kiss everyone...
our aunts and uncle...
grandmothers and grandfathers...
cousins and such...
we were in a way pimped out by our parents only to be told as we grew older that we cannot just kiss anyone...
how about the generous attitude towards eating...
while we were young...
our parents will feed us as much as we would like to eat...
our health and well-being was said to hinge on the amount of consumption...
yet as we grow up...
we realize that over eating brings about a diverse range of adverse effects...
i guess every child would have once aspire to be a star...
or a firefighter...
an astronaut...
a policeman...
something our parents will encourage and promote...
yet in the future...
we were advised that a stable profession is that of an engineer...
an accountant...
mundane jobs that offer neither the thrill of risks...
nor the glamour we persumed...
do not mistaken...
i am aware of the need of different approach at different stages of life...
a process i personally think necessary as adaptation to the changing time...
yet i can't help but ponder...
the idea as presented in the movie inception...
if ideas can be planted...
if nurture has any significance over nature...
then wouldn't such concepts we attained at the most receptive period of our lives affect our future behaviour and mindset...
have these no bearing on the people we become...
if so why?...
as naive adolescences...
we can't possibly possess the necessary processing power to distinguish what we should learn and what not...
in this way...
have our parents screwed us all in the most mindless of ways?...
over a conversation with a friend...
i was reminded of those ideas i once have when i was much younger...
and freer...
the constraints of life slowly weighs on your soul...
entangling u with the fight for survival...
causing u to abandon many supplementary that you longer have the time and effort for...
i am constant reminded of past aspirations...
creative creations...
concepts...
and ideas...
that now have become a faded, fragile piece of memory fabric...
like a cutting in an old sketch book...
the reading of it brings about lots of memory...
yet u have to handle it with care in fear that u may crumple it into fine bits...
where it will be lost forever...
having thought about the ideas i once had again...
i still think that they are achievable...
benefictial...
i just did not try hard enough...
had i try hard enough for anything at all...