How NOT to Write a Blog Post (and the best way to Procrastinate)

My hilarious love and hate towards my passion in life (yes, that's writing. Duh)

So here's my best list of How NOT to Write the Best Blog Post Ever :

1. Stop writing what matters and start doing what doesn't (Yes, like this one. Wow, You are a genius, hi-five) ✋👋

2. Because you're bored and hate researching, open your e-mail for the nth time. Of course, there's nothing important in there, so you just close the tab. 👤

3. Because you are still bored, browse Reddit and act like a cool keyboard warrior that you really are and aim for those karma points! 😎😎😎

4. You're feeling lonely and alone and isolated. Because you are a geek (or whatever or whoever you are) you must have that "must-have" action figure to talk to. But I'm not a geek. I'm a perfectly normal person. 👧 So I've got a ceramic green turtle. To talk to. Mind you, this is my second one because my bruha cat broke my first one. 😿

5. Stare at nothingness. Zoning out is the key to freedomhood. Freedom from this suffering that writing has to offer. Freedommmmmm!!!! 💣

6. Thanks to zoning out, you remembered something crucial for your survival. 💥 So armed with sticky notes and a pen, you write down 1.) noodles and 2.) water because you know yourself too much. You always forget things.  💪

7. Now you are happy. Go to Youtube, search Conan O'Brien and laugh at his dank jokes. 🙉

8. Then worry a little bit that this list might reach up to ten. 💬 😓

9. Apathy sinks in. You don't care anymore. 😑 You claim to be a Stoic. And Stoics know how to respond to negative things. They turn it into positive things. Now you're happy again. 😁

10. Continue the pursuit of "happy-ness." 😄

Okay, back to work. 😒

Religion and Philosophy: Then and Now

I am reading the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and it strikes me how ancient people regard Philosophy as modern people regard Religion.

Before, religion is all about rituals and sacrifices, prayers and winning favors of gods.

In ancient times, philosophy provides a "design for living" with coherent and logical belief systems. It involves answering mortal and existential questions. It also provides answers to problems in making ethical choices and creating an equal and just society.

Back then, you only pray to god to win a war, for a good harvest, and for a good weather.

Back then, moral and ethical decisions are man's personal responsibility.

Now, philosophy is just an academic discipline.

Now, people rely their actions based on a god's commandments.

Modern religion integrated selected "philosophical ideologies" that serve religious dogmas.

Does that mean that the ancient society had better belief system than now?

What do you think?

Blue Pill or Red Pill?

A stranger approaches you and asks you, "Blue Pill or Red Pill?"

A blue pill will give you a chance to go back in time and reset everything. You still retain all the memories and knowledge that you have accumulated until now. 

A red pill will make you an instant ultra-rich person. 

So, you were given a chance to choose. 

What is your choice?

My choice is to take the red pill.

Okay, first, why not the blue pill?

Because no matter how we reset our lives, how we go back in time, we are all still the same human beings capable of making mistakes. Over and over again. Because that's what we are. To err is human. As love and kindness make us human, too. 

Most people want to go back in time to undo those mistakes that they've done. They want to undo those regretful moments. 

But in our most difficult journey in life, there are good circumstances that come out of it.

The sweet serendipity. 

The good accidents. 

And undoing our mistakes will undo those good things, too. 

Owning your own failures, mistakes, and regrets make you a stronger person. It also prevents us from making the same mistakes all over again. 


Well, unless you are potato- head and cabbage-head. No offence to potatoes and cabbages.

Now, why red pill? They say that money is the root of all evil.

Yes, it is. If it's in the wrong hands. 

But then, if I'm financially independent, I can do anything good that I want to do. 

 I can help a lot of people because I love helping people. I love the act of giving so much that it warmths my entire soul.

I can also travel anywhere. Seeing all of the great places in the world will open up my eyes to what beauty this planet of ours have. Meeting and befriending strangers will make you see an entirely different perspective of humanity. That there may be cultural differences, we can still find a lot of similarities. 


So, how about you?  Blue Pill or Red Pill?