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Craziness Around Us


Thinking back, luckily the incident in the previous post involved drunk. It would be a different case altogether if it involved crazy people.

Today's post is dedicated to define the word "crazy". I'm not referring to the people who talks to himself, or those in the Hospital Bahagia. I am actually more interested in the crazy things we, normal people, do everyday.

The best definition of "crazy" in my opinion is "To do the same thing but expecting different results from it".

One good example to illustrate is hoping to wake up at 6 am when we sleep very late in the morning, obviously we will be late to work, waking up at 7am. Tomorrow.. we do it again, going to bed very late, and we expect to wake up at 6am? That is just crazy.

I guess, we always hope that luck will be on our side once in a while. Doing the same thing, and maybe with luck.. we get up at 6am.

The thing is, depending on luck is a very inefficient way of doing things. When you want to wake up at 6am, you must try sleeping a bit earlier. If that still doesn't work, maybe you can get a louder alarm clock. or ask someone who do wake up at 6am and wake you up.

The same goes to other things in life
  • Relationship - you irritate your girlfriend when you smoke, and you don't want to. just quit smoking.. don't expect your girlfriend by luck will change and accept it
  • Health - you gain weight and you want to lose some. you must then control your diet and exercise. There is no way you can lose weight if you doesn't change anything in your lifestyle.
  • Material - your computer always hang when you swith it on and you wish this wouldn't happen. Send the computer for repair. The problem will always be there if you didn't do anything.
Imagine those who gamble at Genting with no particular strategy to win, spending hundreds on their luck. Repeating the same methods of throwing dice, expecting to win. Don't you think that's crazy? Or maybe you can share other craziness happening everyday in front of you?

--------------- Personal Note --------------------------
I have had the opportunity to go inside the Genting Casino one time I went there for a seminar. No I dont gamble. I will never bank in my hard-earned money there. I just went there to see what's it like. And from the way I see it, psychologist will make a fortune there :)

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Friday, June 22, 2007 additional ideas