~ Time Travel ~

Since ages ago, time travelling has been a hot topic for many movies, novels and even cartoons or comics. Why? It is because people wants to have the second chance to redo. For example, in Harry Potter, Harry travel back in time to save his godfather, Sirius, or in Mr. Peabody and Sherman, they travel through time to learn history, then uses the time machine to fix things back.

I believe that, if given chance, everyone of us would want to return to the past to make the right choice.

But, we are humans. By doing the wrong choice is what make us humans.

It is not saying that we must do the wrong thing. However, by taking the wrong path, it makes us vulnerable. It makes us learn and change. Each and one of us is not perfect, and that is what make humans to have humanity. It is what make human to improve.

Thomas Edison did over hundreds of experiments in order to find how to create a lightbulb. If he got the formula at the start, people would not know what other materials are not usable for conducting electricity. And he did not regret the numerous experiments.

If a person had his life sailing smoothly since the start, would he had the chance to regret? Or become better? If the person did something wrong and have the opportunity to change it, would he be the same as before or the changed one after?

For example, a rich person drinks while driving. It cause him to have an accident which him to stay in hospital for weeks. He found out that his family cares about him, but not his girlfriend. It made him to be more responsible to himself and his family. However, if he went back in time and stops himself from having the accident, would the past him still finds out the truth about his partner and family? Would he learn to be more responsible?

Therefore, I don't believe in changing the past would make you a better person, because how would you learn without mistakes?

~ Cars ~

In my opinion, cars should not exist in the first place. 

Yes~

It is the main transport that people use currently on Earth. 

It is useful to travel for long distance.

It is a way of relaxing. (travelling trips.)

It is helpful for showing off to other people. (Volvo, Volkswagen, Audi, Mazda....)

But~

It is a troublesome. (The maintenance, the learning, and the...)

It is causing more deaths than a airplane.

It is making people to be more lazy. (People is not working out but sitting in the car just for 5 mins distance.)

It is occupying more space than a human does. 

It costs more than it is worth most of the time.

It is another reason for people to skip classes, late for work and something that they use as an excuse. (Traffic jam, broke down, send for the service...)

If cars were taken away from this world, the society might collapse. The economy will be disrupted, people will be screaming and shouting (not really), people will be shut out from the outer world. They will be crying because they have to walk instead of taking the easy way.

However, cars is a proof that people is moving towards the future. Even though it might cause more trouble than it should be, it is helping us now. Everyone now is taking the car as a requirement for their daily life.

So, when people think that plane is dangerous, cars are more. It is hard to determine what humans are creating is good or bad. They have their benefits and also they are nurturing people to become more dependable towards technology gadgets (making people lazy.).

Thus, for you, is what people are making worth the it?

~ Lying ~

When the elders said "we should not lie", that is a lie.

People should lie instead of telling the truth. Lying is not a bad thing. I lied so much in my life that I got sick of lying, so, I just tell the truth. It's not like anyone could tell it is the truth or not, or is it a lie.

What is a lie? People uses it to cover up the truth. They used it to avoid conflict. They used it to prevent troubles. No one can accept the total truth for the whole time. Even when a person says "if you tell me the truth, I won't ...(action, emotions or anything)...", that is a lie.

In the study of Malaysians, we are considered as collectivist. That means that Malaysians would prefer to be in "WE" and "US" rather than "I", "ME" and "MYSELF". (It also means that my best friends are not "I", "ME" and "MYSELF".) We are not selfish pricks that would only walk, talk, eat, drink, play or study alone. We must be in a group when we are doing something. Therefore, as collectivists, it is important that we Malaysians, in Chinese context, need to "give face" or avoid any moments that would caused other people feel awkward or embarrassing. To keep the interpersonal harmony, we would even consider telling a lie if the lie helps more than the truth. Thus, for Malaysians, lying is not a biggie.

A lie can be major or minor. For a major issue, it would be like a person did something illegal then uses lies to cover it up and avoid being caught. Meanwhile, a simple lie, a white lie of "I'm alright" when people asks you even though it is so obvious that you are not okay or in a bad mood. It is just depending on when did you used it for and why.

So, how did all of this started? I believe that a person started to lie when they are young, when they have learn the technique to talk. Children cries, screams, and shouts because they know that, by doing all those things, they could get what they wanted. At the same time, they also learn about good and bad things, like they should not eat candy before dinner. So, after learning that having candy before dinner would lead to scoldings and punishments, the children will know that what they had done is actually bad. Then if the parents starts to question and if the child really had done the wrong act, they would try to say they didn't do it, which means they have already started to lie. It is about the self-preservatives instinct in everyone. If people know and understand what danger is, then they would do anything to avoid it. It does not matter whether the danger is physical, emotional, psychological or relationship. As long as it would do some damage, people have the tendency of avoiding it, until it hits them in the face.

We can say that lying is a human nature because they would prefer to show the better side only. By lying, people could hide the unpleasant facts of oneself or surrounding. It would help the person to have a better life sometimes or easier chances. That is due to the fact that, we are collectivists. We want to care for the feelings of other people.

Therefore, lying is not a bad thing. It is a common thing that would occur in our daily life. However, people receive lies as something bad or negative. That is because by lying, people would think you are covering something, which made people think that they are not worth your time or your trust. It's like you are abandoning your relationship, your privacy is more important.

Despite that, even though we are collectivists, we are not nudists. We do not have to reveal everything to the public. We also need some "I", "ME" and "MYSELF" time too.

So, people, don't think that lying is equal to bad.

~ Technology ~

Few years back, there was an animation named "Wall-E". It was about a cleaning robot that have human emotions which still works on Earth after everyone abandoned it. The Earth is filled up with rubbishes that can be made into a skyscraper. In the mean time, the humans are living in their space ship. With the help of technology, they have become obesity, lazy, and addicted to their gadgets.

Why the Earth was corrupted in the first place?

Is it because of the convenience of technology? Or the wasting habit of human? Or the human nature for destruction?

Yes to the first two, not sure to the last. Actually all of those are interrelated.

Try to think this. Human created gadgets to have a easier life, like phones. Decades ago, people uses letters to send messages, then phones to call each other. Moving on is the internet. But then, how often do you change these gadgets? People nowadays is switching their phones every few months, some even when the newest model is out.

Then what happens to the old ones?

They will be throw into garbage bins. That's the answer.

Destroying a tower needs less time than building one.

To buy a phone, for some people, they need months to earn the money and days to months for creating one. However, to destroy the phone or throwing it away, we just need one second.

This made people to think "it is okay to throw away things because I can have new ones and they are better than that."

That is bad.

We always says it is important to appreciate things. But that is just as easy as for a person to change their habits, which would happen in once in a blue moon.

So, to change immediately is not possible, but having second or third thoughts would might help you to be a little more appreciating for what you have. 

Think before you do.