Life is a ride yo

Sharing something I read at a hostel in Phnom Penh while I was spacing out on a beanbag. Sounds trippy but it's got some great points.

Here's the text:

The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when

you choose to go on it you think it's real because

that's how powerful our minds are and the ride

goes up and down and round and round. And it has

thrills and chills and it is very brightly colored, and it's

very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and

they've begun to question, "Is this real or is this just a ride?"

and other people have remembered and they've come back to us

and they say, "Hey don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because

THIS IS JUST A RIDE." And WE KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up!"

"Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and

my family. This just has to be real."

IT'S JUST A RIDE

But we will always kill those good guys who try and tell us that.

You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it

doesn't matter because it's just a ride.

And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice.

No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now,

between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger

locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love 

instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do right now to change the world, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense

each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating

the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one

human being excluded, and we can explore space, together, both

inner and outer, forever... In peace...

From: WISDOMLOVER

BRB GUYS - I'm travelling

So I finally did it. I took the leap. I quit my job and decided to take a break to travel around before re-entering the workforce. People have asked me time and time again why I quit and why I decided to leave a place I have made home for the past two years. Sure, I did not live a life of luxury in the most expensive city in the world, but I had a job, shared a nice private flat in a quiet neighbourhood, a good handful of friends, and a happy and fulfilling relationship. Why abandon it all for unemployment and travelling on a budget?

Isn't Singapore just so purdy?

As I’ve begun to embark on my travels and tell more and more people why, the more I look into my choice. It all boils down to a conversation I was having with my cousin. As is normal for yuppies in their mid-20s, we were having wine and discussing the woes of work. It was then when my cousin told me something I would never forget: “You know what cousin? There is a difference between being comfortable and being happy.” It dawned on me that although I had friends, a relationship, and a career, the feeling in my gut still told me this wasn’t the right city, the right career path, and that I deserve to chase after something that would make me happy.

Fearful of remaining a bum after graduating high school and university, I rushed into my career choice. Jobs are few and far between right? So I had to take what was available. At least that was my opinion in the past.

It seems, like myself, a lot of other 20-somethings think of their twenties as a time to keep mucking around until reality smacks them in the face. Sure, there are the ambitious and the successful, but there are also those who are either stuck in a dead-end job, a career path they hate, or doing nothing at all. We are happy to be comfortable. Being happy is too risky. In a day and age where the economic climate has all of us recent graduates struggling for a foot in the door in the workforce, we seem to approach life with an unnecessary averseness to risk.

I was stuck in a job that had no prospects, no challenges, and pretty much no promise. So I did it. I quit my job without any idea of what the future holds. I will go and travel around Asia, meet new friends and old, splurge on holidays, budget on others, and explore my career choices, but most importantly I will do this because it makes me happy.

So I urge others who are not yet happy: don’t be afraid to pursue it because comfortable is not good enough.