Sunday, February 1, 2009
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On any given Sunday, the trophy doesn’t go to the team that gives a hundred and ten percents. At the top of their games, professional football players spend their whole lives training to be the best at their positions. Exposure to impossible expectation starting in high school calms the quarterback at fourth-and-17, so he can pass to his receiver with grace. Yet one out of every two teams must lose, on any given Sunday.
The world order—insomuch taught by our schools and parents—is based on the noble belief of meritocracy. Conditioned as such, I think all of us could spew lengthy gripe for the unfairness done onto us. After a closer look, it is not any noble belief, but greed, hypocrisy, selfness, and narcissism governing the world order.
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The wise man who has seen through the pretentious vanity of it all, is wise to become a predatory opportunist—an opportunist actively seeks out opportunity to exploit without regard to consequence or principles. The wisest man however, stays foolish and places his hope somewhere else, for he knows the foolishness of this world is wisdom. He knows the world is a perpetual and universal container of broken dreams and unmended wounds, a collection of unjust ironies and subtle betrayals. In that unsatisfied longings, we find our true home in heaven, where every tear is wiped away, every unjust undone, every wrong made right.
The world order—insomuch taught by our schools and parents—is based on the noble belief of meritocracy. Conditioned as such, I think all of us could spew lengthy gripe for the unfairness done onto us. After a closer look, it is not any noble belief, but greed, hypocrisy, selfness, and narcissism governing the world order.
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The wise man who has seen through the pretentious vanity of it all, is wise to become a predatory opportunist—an opportunist actively seeks out opportunity to exploit without regard to consequence or principles. The wisest man however, stays foolish and places his hope somewhere else, for he knows the foolishness of this world is wisdom. He knows the world is a perpetual and universal container of broken dreams and unmended wounds, a collection of unjust ironies and subtle betrayals. In that unsatisfied longings, we find our true home in heaven, where every tear is wiped away, every unjust undone, every wrong made right.
# posted by Gary Chou @ 2:22 AM 
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