it's a small world after all
Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 6:10 PM
its amazing how this world is interconnected somehow: after 2 consecutive days of 10 hour sleep my skin feels a little better than before, my neck is not so tensed and my heart does feel lighter. so as my brains are rejuvenated i will start babbling some interesting things that happened this week:
as i am currently working on my paper about population growth and economic progress - well none of my readings were exceptionally surprising. there is this thing called the perceived happiness that caught my attention. people migrate or travel thinking that things would be better but it may not be in reality. so then a few hours later, i was discussing whether going to uni would be easier if i were to go to jc or poly, honestly i don't know. but while discussing something came to me - why have i never think of going to poly before. so there i was trying to sound like i knew all this while, i said that perhaps we have been brought up thinking that the conventional education route is always the safest and since we are capable of going through this route we would be safe and eventually get a job after graduation. question is who made us think that way. i mean no one actually explicitly said that this way is the best way.
so of course, in population issues we always talk about the woman. women in the micro-credit system are considered the most trustworthy. women in LDCs are, most of the time, not able to have access to education and money. then we have people in the DCs arguing about equal rights, burning of bras movements. but in reality do we really want equality. incidentally, just watched an episode of ally where they had a case where this female lawyer wanted to sue the partners as she was taken of from the partners-nomination list after she gave birth. she claimed that she was being discriminated against and yet isn't that just pure equality - she will not be able to clock as much hours, she will need to leave earlier to pick her children up. so when are we actually given equal opportunities. maybe there is never fairness to start with. while on that topic, today on my way back i noticed there are many single mother taking a toddler and her baby out. they carried the baby on the sling thing and still had to carry the pram for her toddler. just by looking at her, i am tired. i wonder where their husbands are, its a sunday. maybe this is what happens, when we fight for equal rights, we become independent, the men and the women will both think that women can do things on their own now so why bother.
so of course we have the issue of poverty. LDCs are generally less educated since those who have relevant skills have the ability to migrate to somewhere better. the poor and uneducated are stuck in this poverty trap. should i consider myself lucky. it was mentioned in lecture that the more i succumb to the system, become more educated, the more freedom i lose. i am so stuck in this system that i do not even realize it. just like i have chose to go to jc because it is the norm. none of my friends went to poly and poly at that time was considered of second class. in a way i'm lucky that i'm so used to this system and of course in the system. but where do i go from here. follow the system, like lemmings try to get a job in a big firm then work my life off hoping to earn more money because it is never enough. behind my head something is telling me this is what many people hope for - my kind of life. some people do not even have the chance to hope what u are hoping.
i guess we think what we think depending on what circumstances we are in. what we do and what others do form a balance. or perhaps we are being controlled by aliens haha. we are just part of a bigger plan.
