Learning from nothing

Posible nga kayang matuto tayo sa wala?

If we don't have what we should have, can we get something from it?

Ang gulo ano? Naisip ko lang, ano bang mapapala natin kung wala tayo nang dapat sa tingin natin eh meron tayo?

Is this a sign that people are really dissatisfied in life no matter what comes to them? when we get what we wanted, we wanted more. Can we call that dissatisfaction or just simply being voracious? Is that a form of greed?

But then, if we don't have what we think we should, what can this teach us?

> LOOKS.
Kung wala tayong kagandahang anyo, anong mapapala ba natin? I have noticed that most of the people nowadys are being very conscious, if not paranoid about how they looks. Sometimes, I get to know some people who are obnoxious about their looks and belittle those who they think are not as good-looking as them. Those people comprises the society that dictates what and how a person should look.

It is ok to be conscious on how we look outside--how we present ourselves to others. Why not, right? Pero hindi naman siguro tama na magpadikta tayo sa alingasngas ng hangin para lang masabing may kagandahang anyo tayo. I think beauty is relative. Relative to the point of the person viewing. I can say na pangit ang paiting ni Picasso pero para sa kanya at sa mga taong nakaka-appreciate ng Abstract painting, aba, it was more than beautiful, if not, marvelous.

Kung sa tingin natin we lack possession of the looks the society is looking, wouldn't it be much better if we change our perspective? Look at yourself as beautiful. Create your own criteria. Bakit sila lang ba ang pwedeng gumawa ng criteria to say that a person has the head-turning looks? Instead of being a sober, why not change everything upside-down? Well, I may not have the good-looks the society is looking but I have the good looks I am wanting.

But the other catch is this--
Im not saying na kahit magmukha kang basahang nilamutak lamutak sa harap ng iba eh OK na as long as you feel good about yourself. Seing yourself good means also you have to present your own product to others. Its not enough to just perceive your good-looking yourself. You have to express it to others. Who knows, yung ibang tao na yun eh makita yung good-looking perception na nakikita mo rin sa sarili mo.

Again, its a matter of perspective and attitude. Kung wala tayong good-looks, concieve that you have and let your actions achieve it. So kahit na wala tayo, hindi tayo talunan.

>(Lack of) INTELLIGENCE
I have met a lot of people on the streets. But I cannot even tell myself who's brainy and who's not. I think anyone can say that its almost impossible to know an intelligent person by just simply looking at them. Hindi natin malalaman ang laman ng utak nila until they begin to speak (well, for the benefit of a mute and deaf--begin their actions). Tama ba ako or tama ako? hehehe

I have also met and had a chance to talk with a lot of people. People, whom I fell in awe because of their wit, intelligence, and wisdom. People, whom I felt boredom while listening to their i-dont-know-if-true stories or lines. Some people who pretend they know something about the matter when in fact, not a single detail of what they say is true. But I really have to applaud them due to their persuasive powers to convince the inoccent people they are talking to (well, sometimes that includes me).

Until now, I haven't got any conclusion if intelligence is inherited (born) or acquired (made). Many people also did those kind of realization. In 1920's, Harvard University psychologist William McDougall did experiments for 15 years in which rats learned to escape from a tank. The first generation of rats averaged 200 mistakes before they learned the right way out; the last generation 20 mistakes. McDougall concluded that, contrary to accepted genetic science, such acquired knowledge could be inherited.

Pero mga daga yun and that was long long time ago.

Some people pretend they know everything--which I find it irritating. As they pressumed they are the so-called intelligent, they make a fool out of themselves.

Why is it so hard to admit our weakness? Is it just because were afraid to be a laughing stock? Alin ba ang mas katawa-tawa, ang magpanggap na may alam ka hanggang sa lumabas na hunghang ang laman ng utak or ang amining hindi mo nalalaman ang isang bagay at handang matuto mula sa may mga alam?

The problem I can see is that as we grow up, we become self-reliant to the extent that we sometimes don't need the help of others to teach us what we don't know. We become self reliant just to listen to anybody without even bothering to check what comes in to our mind. Self-reliancy to the extent na "uy, Ok ito ah, maipasok ko nga sa isip ko". Too much self-reliant that we think na tama na yung laman ng utak ko kaya dependent na ako sa sarili ko.

Because of this too much self-dependency nature, we become to confident with who we are intellectually. Tama na yung alam natin without verifying the truth; without realizing the essence of the fact. Hindi natin inaalam kung kulang or sobra or tama lang yung hawak natin. DAhil mabilis tayong maging kampante.

Bakit nga ba mayroong matatalinong tao tayong kinikilala? Dahil ginamit nila mabuti ang lamang ng utak nila. Binase nila ang kanilang nalalaman sa mga kaisipan na alam nila ay tamang pagkunan ng verification. Kung naging duda man siya sa kaisipan na dapat nyang pagbasehan, gumagawa sya ng paraan na i-verify ito sa kanyang paraan, at tamang usisain ang ibat ibang pananaw ng ibat ibang individual hanggang sa makabuo ng kanyang sariling pananaw. Research....research. Im not saying maging researcher na tayong lahat but in our own ways, alamin natin kung ano ang ipinapasok natin sa ating kukute. Kanino ka dapat maniwala pagdating sa mga sakit o karamdaman? Sa isang professional civil engineer or sa isang doktor? Magpapatayo ka ng bahay, kanino ka dapat maniwala sa mga pagpapatayo, sa isang professional banker or sa isang karpintero?

Being intelligent doesn't mean we know all. Being intelligent is how you face that you are lacking it to gain more. I think it's more of how your treat the knowledge that there is. Should you just talk and talk ? Or think and talk? Being intelligent is not how many words you said to convience an ignorant. It is how you make the most out of it.

If you dont have enough intelligence, hindi nakakahiya yun. All you have to do is acquire. Wake up to the realization that walang taong mang-mang (ENGOT meron!). Kaya its not right to say you dont have any intelligence.. just deficient. And even na kulang ka nun, sometimes, it is much safer to know little than to know everything. Even King Solomon, the once ever wise and intelligent person ever lived on earth, says, everything is MEANINGLESS. Yes, you have everything, but you will die soon. But the key here is, its meaningless if you just keep it yourself. Let other people use that to prosper. And since that knowledge will be useful for others, it is your/our duty to enhance it.

While there's time, enhace the knowledge God has given us so that we will not look like a puppet who has a voice with convincing power yet without a brain that verifies what it says.

---ANG GULO NO??

anyways... yan ang gustong sabihin ng utak ko eh...