Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Please do not use Steve Job’s quote “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. Many people use this quote in an effort to mimic Steve Job’s adresss at the Stanford Commencement Ceremony. Without sufficient intellectual depth, using the quote on a perfunctory level leaves one bewildered. For example, what does “Stay hungry, stay foolish mean?”. Does it mean we are to always keep wanting to be hungry even when we are full? Does it mean we shall always be on the lookout without being contented? And as for foolish, I highly advise people not to be foolish. Imagine your parents telling you, “Be foolish today!” Well, that is sure useful if you are an avid risk-taker. And risk-taking is not that bad after all. But please, do not be foolish. It is a derogatory term. In entrepreneurial circles, foolishness may be a beneficial characteristic. But honestly, great entrepreneurs would know that it takes great execution in their plans, not foolishness in their plans. Of course, a daredevil mentality helps. And thus using a word like “Dare” or “Courage” would suffice in a better way than “foolish. So please, do not use this cliche phrase of Steve Jobs for a long time, else you will only appear to be a very hungry and foolish man.

Cougar

Enough said. Cougar describes women past their prime. It appears that these women take pride in being a cougar. Sadly, it is actually a derogratory term. Thus, if someone takes pride in being a cougar, it is very sad. Just look at the girls from Sex and the City 2. Old. But trying to act young. Sad, because those things they seek were what they should have sought when they were young. No, it is not about empowerment. empowerment is when they are free of the desire for their Blahnik shoes, their Gucci bags and their consumerist mindset. Thus, I think they are more enslaved by their ideals of trying to appear “empowered” by being sexually liberal and having lots of best friends (BFF’s), but end up being enslaved in the whole vicious cycle of greed in the process.

And can someone tell me what is the male equivalent of a cougar please?

Pay it Forward

Please, if I ever do something nice for you, and you do feel indebted out of your own will, do not repay the debt to someone else, but repay it back to me. Let us examine why you would not want to repay the debt to me, but instead repay it to someone else: I am very wealthy, very resourceful, and very successful, thus I do not need your help at all.
It seems proud and pompous to say pay it forward. It is as though you are telling someone this “Dude, I am lending you 500 bucks now, when you get enough cash, do not repay it to me, give it to someone else.” Sounds noble right? But it actually undermines the receiving person’s ability to give.

I mean, when someone actually tells me to “pay it forward”, what comes up in my mind is, “Dude, you don’t have to tell me that. You did a kind deed, and I am going to repay you for doing this kind deed to me. But, you do not have to tell me to do a kind deed to someone else. That will be a matter of my own volition.”

Worse, this pay it forward phrase seems to demolish the idea of gratefulness to the giver. In effect, when the giver says “pay it forward” to the receiver, the giver is trying to say, “do not feel grateful to me, i do not need your gratefulness, instead, i will prefer if you feel grateful to the overall society and some anonymous person”.

And that is where there is no sense. This is because of the giver wants me to return to some anonymous person I am about to meet in the future who might need my help, instead of being grateful to the giver, that really destroys my concept of basic human reciprocity.

Just like the relationships between parent and child, teacher and student, best friends, and benefactor and receiver, when you have received something good from them, hastily seek to repay it to the giver. This will serve to strengthen the bond between the giver and receiver, and lead to stronger relationships.

In conclusion, see things as they really are. Do not help a person because you feel obliged to “pay it forward”, help because this person deserves your sympathy, reward, or friendship.

They are: PORKY PIG and DAFFY DUCK.

Okay, if anyone wants to get serious with you today, whether at work, on the street, or online chat, muster up your courage and say,

PORKY PIG and DAFFY DUCK

They are hilarious.

Funny. This makes my blog a humorous blog now.

A game of laser tag? A game of paintball? A hearty meal?

a good tv show? a heart to heart chat? a skydive?

fun…

a word to ponder upon in our meaningless world.