Point Of View

What does it mean to be original? What makes one certified to be called "original"? Or for that matter why is something called original while another isn't? It's a word we often use to describe something that we've never seen, heard, tasted, or experienced before. Something " new". Sometimes it's used as an adjective to describe someone who goes against the "mainstream" or that did something out of the ordinary, something "amazing" that impresses us. But what is it really? What is original? What does it mean to be original? Is it to simply do something someone has never seen, heard, tasted, or experienced before? Is it a lifestyle of always trying to take risk and do something "unknown"? What about people in the circus then? They can do incredible things with their body that almost no one else can do, yet they're not treated as "original" so much as a "freak". Let's take look then, maybe you...

What is it exactly? It is a term used in psychology that explains what the humans rationalitation process does. It is a type of cognitive function often used by the frontal cortex (a.k.a. the more rational part of our brains) to extract information from memories or things that we learned to confirm what we already and or currently believe in. This is often the case when our brain cannot accept a new information that contradicts what itself truly thinks/believes to be real and comes from facts. This is also one of the many reasons why people tend to believe so much in an information they see on the internet if it somehow suits their conditions or the things they are trying to explain. Now, i am not going to go in depth into the whole explanation of confirmation bias. You can do that on your own time reading in Google or Wikipedia, or whatever other sources you may have at your disposal. But it is really interesting to talk about the implications and what this behaviour of ours bri...

Before we start, let's make it clear first, the Judgement i'm referring to isn't about laws or armageddon, rather it's a psychological action that people use in their daily basis to evaluate another person or an action taken by a anotherperson. This differs in the sense that there is no written rules as boundaries unlike law, nor is it related to anything about Judgement day a.k.a. armageddon. Now with that i hope it clears out any misconception and put us to the same page of context. Some might say it is necessary for survival, some might say it is a way for us to adapt to our environment, some might say it is also a method to quicken our train of thought from previous experience. There's no denying that our acts as human beings to judge others have it's many benefits. as well as it's disadvantages. Who's to say that judging others is wrong? Think about it, there's no telling what those who judge us have experienced. For example, a girl is trau...

Interactions between humans in a world full of society is, in a sense, inevitable. No matter where you go and what you do it is almost impossible to encounter it without interacting with other human beings for whatever reason it may be. Such interactions may or may not have good result, sometimes the results are as satisfying as it gets, but other times it can inflict a "mental injury". It doesn't necessarily means trauma, those "mental injury" is basically just intense moment of displeasing and discomforting situation that you experienced (again doesn't have to be traumatic). To survive, we humans evolved our psychological function to adapt to such situations and thus born the terms "Forgiving". But for some unknown reason, forgiving is now being translated to forgetting your problems, of course the actions of forgiving is way far off from forgetting something. Let us start with forgetting, an action we take to simply disengage our brains fr...

In our current era, where social media are widely used, the hunger for existence are being experienced by many. From the use of facebook to share one's own thought, to instagram to share our photo and experience, even to foursquare to tell people where we are, and other methods are used to prove our existence. Some might argue that those are for fun, but none could truly justify the truth that many people are becoming dependent upon it to prove their existence. Even privacy are being excluded simply to prove that they are there, they are alive, they "exist". This raises a good question, what is existence, truly? Michael from Vsauce did an excellent job at explaining "How people dissappear" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPBJgpK0Ulc ). His video explains, that even in this era of cctv's and continous watch people can still dissappear. Those disappearances could be because of accidents that can't be explained, missing dead body, or a simple mista...

Currently, many people are stating that there are two different generations in exsistence, one is the X generation, the other is the Y generation. In most cases the X generation have a tendency to find it difficult to use and understand newer technology, so they tend to be unable to use their gadgets, pcs, etc. up to their fullest extend. While the Y generation have a tendency to be able to naturally use and master their gadgets, pcs, etc. without having a need to be taught by others', as if it were something they were born with. It matters not which generation you were born into, they all still experienced a certain level of the same education system. Although the system of education differs in each countries, but a lot of it are similar, especially in eastern countries Many of eastern countries' education systems are slave-based and memorization-oriented. No one can be blame for such a system to be born, it was only natural that a country that has so many slaves to come...