Geddit

Empathy is hard. How do you know how another person feels? Towards something, someone or someplace.

Everyone wants to feel that they're understood. That people get them. That they know why it is they do something. Especially when it's something uncommon, a bit off, peculiar, out of the ordinary.

It's frustrating when people don't.

Especially when it's the people around you.

Of course when one points a finger at someone, 4 other fingers point back at you. And I am not immune to this. In fact, a culprit, most of the time.

I am generally oblivious. Selfish.

So maybe this is karma.

I just want people to geddit.

Blast from the past

I've no idea what had gotten into me. But I decided to check out ye 'olde blog. Scrolling to the posts I can't help but remember the music I listened to back then, the feelings I felt while I was writing, my state of mind at the time. Granted, some posts are just cringe-worthy and you kinda wish you didn't write it. lol

I guess that was the whole purpose of having a blog. To go back one day and think about what you've done, how you felt, where you were and where you are now, how much have you changed, have you made a difference..?

Big questions, difficult answers. How does one measure these kind of things? The traditional way would be the typical checkbox: married, kids, house, job? Shouldn't the better form of measurement be how you feel instead? Happy, content, grateful, excited, challenged..?

Then again, why do we have the need to "measure" anyway? To compare with someone else? To compare with your former self?

Why am I suddenly being philosophical is beyond me. Especially when I had just spent 3 hours playing dota. lol

Maybe I'll revisit here every now and then. Putting the proverbial pen to paper is nice sometimes.