Everything happens for a reason

My general philosophy is that humandkind has no valid purpose to be on earth. We evolved from single cell organism and have since done nothing but draining resources off this planet. One of my theories is humankind might be just like a chain of mutating viral bacteria the universe created as a bio-chemical weapon to rid its 3rd planet off this solar system. Think Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy.

However, on a smaller scale of mankind society, I do believe that everthing happens for a reason. Action & reaction, cause & effect, whatever it's called. Each cause or action could generate multi-tier of effect or reaction sometimes it's almost impossible to track what the cause is for a certain outcome. Many complicated chains of events have scientific explanation, many don't. The reasons unknown to humankind beget superstitions, beliefs in supernatural powers. Personally, I think we cannot say something is supernatural just because we do not know how to explain it, but yes, I do feel those powers higher than my recognition surrounding us people.

A longwinded intro to my memento of the day, another super early morning get-ups. I went for one of my major interview/screening, the process consisted of EQ questionaire, an essay writing, group discussion and a panel interview. As you may know, I have been on an epoch of dullness for a week or so, but my mood began to change when I saw the topic of today essay. It was to discuss my idea why His Majesty the King is so well beloved by Thai people. Thinking of all the reasons attributing, I couldn't help but feeling how small and meaningless my so called problems are. Our King is an extraordinarily intelligent figure, we are undoubtedly proud of that. But the real reason all of us love and respect him wholeheartedly is his selfless dedication to the people of this poor country. A responsibility larger than life was thrown upon him at such a young age and he had since abandoned his own dream to take best care of millions of people he did not know.

I did badly on the discussion being so overwhelmed with countless answers and I didn't articulate well. I knew I should pick a few key points and focus my answer around those points, I didn't manage to do so. Anyway, I don't feel so desperately dull anymore after doing this exercise. My problems are nothing in view of what His Majesty went through. A remarkable thing is, I just got my 'The revolutinary King' book back last week. This book is still banned in Thailand and I did quote a paragraph from that book during the discussion. I noticed all colors faded from the judges' faces when I quoted, "When I was a boy, I wanted to be an engineer. Instead, I've become my brother". I hope I wont get myself arrested for that. Just repossessed the book in question a few days before coming across this topic at a major interview, I feel there's some invisible cobweb linking all the events I encounter.

It led me to think of how losing the old phone improved my life, first of all, I had a valid reason to go for retail therapy to fix my blues, then I found a phone with much updated feature than the old one, at a much more economy price (i paid about SGD200 for this current phone, comparing to SGD800 i paid for N8850 5 years ago). Last but not least, this phone comes with a handfree set. Believe it or not, I could pay hundreds of dollars for a phone, but I would never spent extra 20 dollars for accessories! With the handfree set, now I enjoy the chance to chat away while driving, a thing I wasn't capable of for a longest time. (Ok, this pleasure comes hand in hand with spiking phone bills, I get it) Another remote analogy is how I despise that HK trip and of all the efforts in buying fashion items trying to enjoy the shopping spree, it's turned out that the best buy I made there was the HK$40 sleek Muji's suction-towel rack:

And their plastic case is also very neat, though a little pricey.

If I ever go to HK again, they are the reasons! :-)

PS. I'm hoping I'd be shown a brighter way to look at other things too, for example, my decision to turn down SCB offer. I hope MIM is worthwhile.