Assuredly Reliable

is the embrace of family. Perhaps it is stirring competition. Sometimes it feels like the fear of missing out. Or is it the special someone who always stirs our hearts and constantly nurtures our inner joy. Can it be having a passion and interest? Having a good social network makes us enjoy each day. Is it having a purposeful preoccupation each new day? Or coming across an unexpected, delightful encounter? Or returning to embrace Nature, soaking and swimming in the ocean and feeling the fresh vibes of the outdoors? Things, experiences and opinions can be fleeting. The human condition can be to grasp the ever changing, especially of matters inherently external to our inner selves. Human societies create wealth no longer from just tangible stuff, but make financial gains and create floating values out of churning, differences and speculaton. We no longer in contemporary society can interact in life's routine with the same human being at the shop, clinic, service provider and so forth. Constancy, familiarity and comfort can take a plunge as to whom we can rely. What we can really depend upon are all found within ourselves. Our own integrity, values, character and personality. Our realisation of our core strengths and to think for ourselves despite accelerating changes outside us. Our ability built up to recognise diversions and distractions in our personal journey. Our effort to step back and see what really is meaningful in the long term. #yongkevthoughts

At the Cinemaplex

I have not been to cinemaplexes for a long time. From being devoted to super embracing screens, some of us have instead moved on to watch videos on smaller screens, trying to multi task while doing something else - taking long commutes, while having a meal or when waiting for something. There can be no focus on just savouring a movie, with nothing else to distract us, except maybe for the crackle of popcorn and the hum of airconditioning in a large darkened hall. There were the years when audiences could sit through a few hours of a movie that knew how to combine music, artistry, emotion, expression, sensibilities and audio - all to stir our thoughts, enjoyment, speculation, amazement and questions in the way characters, storyline and inspiration were portrayed. Being able to stop a playing movie somewhere in between can be convenient, but does not provide the completeness watching it all in one sitting. Strangers, spouses, partners and friends watching together at one same venue gave a shared collective experience. Very few now bother with looking at the rather useful trove of information in rolling credits. Data about a particular movie and cast can be checked on the internet. Spectacular and well made movies were scheduled during festive seasons, school holidays and community events - but they still are.

Personal Boundaries

The Obvious Cannot be Hidden by the Silence, the Silence Cannot be Hidden by the Obvious. Every detail, every sweep and every nook are so clearly revealed when the tide goes down. When you always take, you get some - give and you receive much more. That is the Law of the Universe. When greed permeates a human being, every new comfort is never enough - and that person is trapped in a spiral of attachment. It is not worth an iota to waste energy on a person who cannot rise beyond the fog embedded hopelessly inside. There are individuals who can see when injustice is inflicted on them - but not when they carry out the act of injustice on to others ( or they pretend about it). Those who can sleep soundly after stepping on you deserve to be ignored. Step back from the noise, hype and distraction. The world will carry on no matter what - but honestly, are you going to remain silent in the face of obvious incivility? What you do not practice can be lost forever. Time is not like money. There is no return on more time stowed away, it simply passes and that time is literally lost. So value your own time and the people who give up on their time for you. One can be polite, but not at the expense of our integrity. #yongkevthoughts

Apparently Weird

 The Seemingly Weird Things I Observe

Individuals with agitated facial expressions talking loud to themselves in public - as they cleverly hide their ear pods, they are really chatting loud on their mobile phones.

High tech wifi service that breaks down more often than landline telephones from 40 years ago.

So called annual flora breeds that go umderground each cold season and rise again in the warm season.

Prices of shares and other investments which cause a media uproar with a violent rise or fall but really keep on growing in value over the long term.

People who remarkably recall what I uttered many years ago, but in a good way.

To be in the right place at the right moment - and catch up with someone truly missed.

To hear or witness governments or authorities express regret over unresolved matters when any one could already see the proverbial train wreck coming.

To see the delusion of addiction of several things in society being encouraged in media - and to continue to see the spiral such addicts find themselves in without care by society.

To observe the over the top obsession with weather forecasts in some cultures.

To not realise the best things in life are already right infront of us every day.

To not be mindful that when an aircraft crashes, it does not matter which class of seating one is in.

Individuals who emphatically must use a particular seat on public transport.

#yongkevthoughts

The Great Leveller

 Death is the great leveller, the most certain thing for every human being.

The journey of life is littered with distractions.  Ego, addictions, time wasters, expectations of others, society's control and falsities of trickery.   When a human life expires, each of these disappear as if by magic  - but it is not magic, but attachments that have somehow expired with the last breath of life.

To balance up things, it is only fair to remind myself of other matters that go with the end of life.

Memorable character, personal resilience, charming personality, generosity, a loving nature, patience, a broad based mindset and an understanding inner self - these are features we appreciate, admire and adore in any one impressive person we are fortunate to meet up with or come to know.
The passing of such a person leaves a hollow in our hearts when we miss them.

The contemporary world that we live in the 21st century continues to be amplified with negative vibes.  

Self centredness of  politicians are increasing.   The penchant for emphatic argument and articulation of personal views and rights, without considering collective community feelings and togetherness, has significantly risen, eapecially in societies that have enjoyed increased materialistic wealth.

Individuals who come into access and control of huge corporate, financial and material reaources can dive into the most ugly of perceived Little Napoleon powerful behaviours of self entitlement and privilege.

The heightened demand for instant gratification and wanting more and more, than any human being truly requires,  has impacted on a deadly growing spiral of greed, corruption and a conviction of being able to not get penalised.

Road rage is a illustrative example of bad tempered humans being able to bully others in public, with such people really believing that the machines they operate are an extension of their demented and deprived character.

The issue with software and AI operated processes in society, business and community matters is obvious - human beings reduce speaking to each  other, get more influenced by hidden powers behind a screen and interact much less losing human social skills.  

Each of us can spend more time tapping and viewing on screens than talking and facing human beings.

We can successfully undertake work, obtain our food, perform investment or expenditure transactions, chill out or exercise,  more in the presence of machines than with human beings.

Regular transactional episodes increasingly involve us using machines more than interfacing with other human beings.  Checking in to a flight, checking out our groceries, scanning a QR code to order our meal, doing an on line tutorial, making an appointment with our provider and so on - we are encouraged to not see or talk to any human being.

So the chances of each of us to deal with a problematic human being also gets less.

The annoying reality is now when a problem arises, the software we deal with pushes back the responsibiliity to us.

This brings my discussion here to my first point -  whatever bad or good points each of us humans have, death removes all and suddenly provides a clean slate.

Death in software mechanisms and hardware devices also brings things to a stop.  Has anyone not lost photos or documentation files in computers or smart phones?

#yongkevthoughts