The people you never hear from, are the ones you yearn for the most.
Never let the ones close to you go unnoticed, taken for granted and feel underappreciated. Times and again, I can't help but notice the tendency in people to reconnect or reconcile before a farewell. Is it the potential of permanent absence that sprouts that tinge of regret and urgency in us hence, we feel somewhat obligated to take that uncomfortable step out of our comfort zone. Or is it our not-so-little egoistic self hindering us from being vulnerable and kind all this while.
It is true that the impact of losses weighs more than the pleasure from the same magnitude of gains.
When facing gains, we are risk-averse creatures, almost always opting the sure option rather than the pain of going through the gamble to grab the grand prize. How lowly we value ourselves, our self-esteem, our tenacity to overcome challenges. Perhaps, we have conformed too much to the perception of what the society considers as 'normal'. Centuries ago, interaction between opposite sexes is a taboo and punishable in some communities. Yet today, we are labelled as old-fashioned and conservative for such behaviours. Those who claims to be updated with the current issues and trends, are they really so?
The true north depends on which perspective you're describing it from.
In preparing for my exchange presentation about Malaysia, I can't help but feel overly dependent on the internet to source for information which I am skeptical about. As much as we stand for the benefits technology has endow us, let's not forget what it has replaced in exchange for convenience and access to abundance of information which we may or may not utilise in the first place. I wish to speak the truth but something tells me that the truth doesn't stand true eternally.
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