Roger

Roger loved his son, Norman. He loved him so much that he put him into a prison, where he could be loved away from any atrocities in the world. In a prison, where there was no disease, no conflicts, he was safe in this prison or that was what Roger thought. Everyday, he would spoon feed his son. Roger ensured the best of all nutrients, in the meal, he added more than enough vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and minerals. He made sure his son was growing fine. However, as his son grew older, he witnessed some unusual behaviour made by his son. He saw his son wanting to break out of the bars of his prison. His son sat close to the bars everyday. A paranoia struck Roger, he devised other methods to fix his son's betrayal. He covered the sides of the prison with a thick blanket. The interior was filled with darkness. He was sure that this would prevent his son from being corrupted and preserve his innocence. From that day onwards, Roger felt relieved. He never really bothered his child from that day onwards. He never really cared about how his son was growing, because he knew that he had provided him with everything the son needed. However, one day, he decided to check on his son. The son was lying on the ground. Breathless. Roger was not sure why.

average

Everyone is pretty much categorised as average. In fact, the majority of the population- no matter they are white, black, Asian, America, Australian, African- are average in the things they do. Very little can make a breakthrough from this pool of normality. For most people, they would need to be a genius to a god-like level or stupid to the bones. But, it is rare. I call them the defects of the society, cause in a way, they are mutants from the pool of average people. When I talk about average, I mean the success of an individual around all fields- academy, arts, literature, work. Even people at the international level, some of them are still considered average at their professions. This leads me to question: Is the real meaning of life to swim out of this pool? If it is, then does that mean that most people are in fact failing in life? What is a success? Is success scaled by happiness or by reputation? I'm still young and I'm still seeking for answers. I am doubtful of so many things. But within all these doubts, I have the desire to swim out of the pool of normality. However, through my lessons in English, I am taught that struggling is futile and struggling against the natural order is even more futile. However, I just don't want to stay in that pool forever.

Equity in sins

Can equity be truly achieved? I don't think so. The ideology is perfect, however to an extent, it lacks credibility. The establishment of equity aims to eradicate all forms of stratification: wealth, intellectual, racial, occupation.... Through this, equity achieves a fortitude of peace, harmony and stability. No matter how idealistic this concept, it is not applicable to humans. As for humans, I do not think we can fully achieve equity, however, humanity is somewhat heading in the right way, with the influence of sins. Mankind are infiltrated with all forms of sins, to name them: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony. Our susceptibility to such sins and immortality makes us more human as compared to our morals and ethics. It is true, ethics and morals make a person better. However, without the immorality, flaws and sins, people will not be considered to be human. We transcend to a divine level, or in scientific views, we degenerate into societal robotic that strictly complies to the laws of society, complying to what god and people assume to be right.  This consequently results in a conformist society; society will be stagnant, people will not see or view the need for changes as they think of their society, their morals and their beliefs so well. As a matter of fact, with sins,  people want change and people will try to force it to happen. Let's say in the case of equality, it is greed that makes people want equality. Without that, people will still be blindly living in society without equity.

Hope-CC

We hope for the best  in our lives. We hope for the best in every aspect of our lives. But sometimes we fail to see that we already have the best part of everything and fail to recognise that other people have it a lot worse than us. I am not talking about the worldwide adversity of the third world countries which are bombarded with diseases, poverty, limited resources, etc. Everyone recognises that, but not everyone could make a change to it. Does donating a few dollars really help? I am not being doubtful about charities and so and so. It is just that I believe right now it is may out of our control. Instead, we should start looking at it in our own social group, your friends. Many of us complain so much about our lives.  We are discontent about the fact that tiny things don't go the way we planned it. It is extremely selfish, we should think about others. One of my friends was sent to mental hospital recently for the suspicion of suiciding. I am extremely worried about him and hope him can climb out of the mental prison soon. He suffered from despair because he was not able to achieve as well as others. We are still young and we are approaching the final exams of our youth. Many of us are intellectually advanced compared to him, however, he puts in two to four times the effort compared to us. He gets little out of it. He is suffering from depression because some of us have excelled in our studies, meanwhile he had failed. Poor thing.  I just hope that he can climb out it soon.
Love you CC

Purpose

What is the purpose of life? Well, I am an atheist so I do not believe in the Christian conception that human existence is simply for the glory of God,  nor do I accept the belief that people live as to worship god. I do, however, accept the Buddhist belief that people live as to suffering. It is very similar to Darwinism, people live as to survive. In fact, I see that there is, in fact, no designated purpose in living. Humans come into existence as for the sake of existence. Like arts for arts sake, humans live for the sake of something that fills up space. It is just like asking some; "what is the purpose of the ozone layer?", foolish people will answer that they were made as a shield against ultraviolet radiation and sustain life forms on earth. But is that true? Does the ozone layer assign itself the mission to protect humans, animals, plants? Not really. It is simply a natural phenomenon that conveniently has the function of shielding humans from the radiation. In this sense, we exist as a natural phenomenon. Maybe because the universe has way too many atoms and decides to spare us some. However, people are unlike the ozone layer. We can think for ourselves. We can make our own purpose in living. One common purpose of living which is well respected would be people's pursuit for knowledge or eternal truth. Note that in a way, their purpose is to discover the purpose of their existence. One should clearly see the futility in it already.