Why Are We Unhappy Even When We Have Everything?

HOW many of you think that you don't have a clue of your passion in life?

How many decided to choose life science as a degree because you were good in chemistry in secondary school?

How many took up engineering because you heard that it is a safe and secure job?

How many became a teacher because you couldn't find a job?

How many of you have no idea where your interest lies?

Who here believes that it is the environment that created who we are?

Who believes that we are born to be good at something?

How many of you think that everyone is cut out to be doctor or lawyer?

Who determines that career that you want?

How is it determined?

Are you in a career because your relatives thinks that it is a good profession?

Did you enjoy the things that you have to do in your career everyday?

How many times do you have to lie to yourself that you are in the right job just because you don't want to admit you are wrong?

How often have you asked yourself this question: What have I been doing for the past few decades of my life?

Who here agrees that academic excellence will not determine your success in life?

Who here believes that people who pursue their passion will live a much more fulfilling life than those who took on jobs that is good in people's opinion?

How many of you think that you do certain things because of what you think others might think of you?

How many of you went through the education system, got your degree, and still not sure what you are doing?

Who here thinks that you've just wasted 24 years of your life studying and discovered that you are nowhere in society?

Who here believe that getting a degree is more important that pursuing what you really want to do?

Who here thinks that pursuing a degree is what you really want to do?

Who here just wants to get a degree because of the implications without?

What do you think a degree represent in today's society?

Is the degree you have really the ticket to a better life?

How many degree holders do you think are having that better life?

What is the reason for you to get that degree again?

Did you get it just for "must have because everyone has it" sake?

How different do you think you are compared to a sheep in a flock?

What if the reason you want to get a degree is because you have no other option?

What is the meaning of option to you?

Did you have an option in the first place?

A level cert is worth?

O level cert is worth?

PSLE cert is worth?

Do you think they are worthless unless you get a degree?

Did you get those cert because you want to get a degree?

Or did you get those cert because you didn't have any other options?

Did you find your passion while you slogged for those cert?

Do you feel that you have wasted 12 years of your life to discover the thing you were led to obtain is worthless?

Are you happy with your accomplishments today?

What is your purpose in life?

What have you done to achieve that purpose?

Are you satisfied with that purpose?

Are you lying to yourself now that it doesn't matter?

Are you living to your potential?

Do you know your potential?

If not, are you ready to find out?

Why have you not found your potential?

Is it the environment?

Do you think that the education system is not for everyone?

Do you think that there are people who are meant to excel in the system and there are people who are destined for other paths?

Do you think your path lies elsewhere?

Do you want to find the path?

If you had the chance to live your life again from 0, would you pursue that path?

Do you think that you will end up walking the same path and having the same regrets again?

Why do you think that will happen?

How many will say it is because of the environment? The government? Parents? Relatives? The system?

How many would like to have the power to break free?

How many would like to save the next generation from suffering your misery?

How many thinks that you have no power to do anything?

How many sees no point in making it happen?

How many would rather this cycle continue forever and only the selected few will be enlightened enough to choose their own path?

How many wished that they were the enlightened few?

How many wants to become the enlightened few?

How many thinks that the enlightened few were lucky?

How many thinks that the enlightened few are lucky but know that they worked hard for it?

How many would jump at the chance to be the enlightened few?

How many still don't know what is the enlightened few?

How many thinks that they are the enlightened few?

How many can't make any sense of these questions?

Our society evolved.

It is where it is today for a reason.

People who built the society today had a past.

They had a lack that they want the next generation to not experience.

They provided everything that they had wanted when they didn't have.

These people are the nation builders, they are but one category of society.

With that hindsight, they overlooked the very factors that made them who they are today.

Nation builders builds a nation to nurture nation builders.

People are born with different niche. Not everyone is cut out to be a nation builder.

No matter how many oranges you squeeze, you can never get apple juice.

These people built a nation they wanted to grow up in.

A nation of abundance so that the next generation will not experience their lack.

But they forget...

It is the lack, the emptiness that drove them towards achieving what it takes to fill that vacuum.

They wanted it so bad that they will do anything to get it.

It is their thirst for it that made them who they are.

Once, there was a caterpillar, it was time for it to become a cocoon.

It wove itself up and started to grow.

When it was time for the caterpillar to emerge as a butterfly, a little boy saw it struggling and helped cut open its cocoon.

The butterfly died a few days later.

A butterfly dies if it did not break out of the cocoon itself, because breaking out of the cocoon is nature's way of strengthening the butterfly's wings.

The nation builder builders built the society to be filled with the little boy.

Kind-hearted dream killers.

Everything that the nation builders did not have before, they provide it to the next generation.

The next generation did not have to go through the struggle.

What do you think the consequence will be?

We are the butterfly waiting to die.

The enlightened ones are the "underprivileged" caterpillar which did not have the "luck" of meeting the little boy.

They broke out of their own cocoon and soar to the sky as a beautiful and free creature.

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