rekindling...

It has been a long time since my post.

Nowadays, it seems as though people have grown out of blogging (although I have posted something up in my study blog), and people seem to have very little time to actually write something down.

I still do write down some things I feel or think about though - only through e-mails, to my mentor in my university, who is truly a great man, devoted to education. He reads through every single mails I have sent to him, and gives relevant feedbacks... which is always welcome.

 My life is Still great, and becoming even better every day, it seems.

Now, I have been reading some stuff lately, and also noticing nobody blogs nowadays, it has inspired to write a post here.

I have made a post on Facebook - "what is your impression of the world around you?" which was a small social experiment - but I didn't say that in my post, because its rather nasty - making people my test-subjects aren't really the nicest thing I can do.

To my great surprise, most people responded negatively - it was surprising because my impression of the world was on the good side - although the news of people killing people, down-trend of financial situation, and people getting stressed out about their workload, commitments and everything else.

okay, maybe my tone wasn't right. to me, the world is still a bright place, because I can still see compassion and people caring for each other in the world around me. and I hope I do contribute to that circle of compassion of empathy - although I am not inherently good at those things, I can always make an effort.

I have once read that the world you see is a reflection of yourself - so I guess when people are negative about the world, they are negative towards themselves. when people say the world is a cold dry place, they may be secretly guilty of being cold and dry themselves.

I guess when you try your best to treat people as you would like to be treated, you have nothing bad to expect from others - and surprisingly, (speaking from experience), people will sometimes surprise you in a nice way. not every old man or lady will thank you for offering your seat - say, but some do, and people will think "I can do that too", and the world might be a slightly better place. (I sure do think "I think I can do that too" when I see the niceties of others.)

I'm getting rather disappointed at myself now because its getting all preachy and stuff. might as well stop haha. the last thing people need, is people giving life advice. I don't believe in that kind of paternalism.