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watching your kids grow

when you have kids, you gave dilemma  Why With the ease of digital media, parents have easy access to all the videos and photos of their kids since the day they were born.  This is double edged Yes, the ease of retrieval of old photos and videos is nice, especially when you want to reminisce the cute times. But have we thought about the impact of our behaviour on our still growing kids? How do they actually feel when their parents keep showing them their cute photos as babies and toddlers? Will they feel that their present form is no longer as appealing to their parents? Will they think their parents are just happy when they were babies? As parents, the time and energy we expend on looking at old media meant we lose time and energy to appreciate the "present" form of our kids. its ironic, but we end up taking lesser and lesser videos and photos.  Yes, babies and toddlers are cute, but so are teens and young adults kids! Let's not abuse the tech we have at the detriment of...

poor and rich vs happy and unhappy

Now, if someone who has no worries whatsoever on their living expenses and material life, comes and tell me they are unhappy with life and has so many issues and feel so down...I cannot understand it on surface.  But I can also understand it. Why? We all need our basic needs, think safe home, food, clothes, internet, entertainment.  If you don't have basic needs, you will be miserable most of the time, but you can try keep your mood up sometimes with positive thinking. But you will generally still be unhappy. Once you have your basic needs (so some) covered, you have a baseline of happiness that you can hit easily. But the human mind is never satisfied. You will now have time and energy to find faults with things. The food isn't so good, your home isn't that nice, your spouse isn't good enough etc etc. So, to the unhappy and miserable rich man....how about you give away all your riches and go back to working for others? And then find happiness from that position?  Or yo...