WAYANG

I realised that we don't need to wait till the Hungry Ghost Festival every year to see wayangs...

We get to see them everyday...

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Scene 1
Human nature abhors work... so to avoid being arrowed more work to do, we begin to act busy in front of the computers...

That's WAYANG...

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Scene 2
Humans are basically lemmings... it's difficult and is often futile to go against the current... there are many different sub-currents in the society... some strong, some not so strong, some currents were there all these while but nobody questions why they are there or are still valid, some currents seems strong and never ceasing and humans have decided to stop going against it since who knows when and the stupid thing is that the current might have ceased but humans still think that it hasn't and therefore don't have the courage to go back upstream...

And in order not to look stupid or offensive going upstream, we WAYANG...

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Scene 3
Sometimes it's funny how humans are not allowed to be happy...

In a work place, when u were allocated lesser work to do, it's sometimes not advisable to show too much happiness because some people may become envious and get offended, and in time to come, u'll be arrowed more work to do... especially work that others do not wish to do...

In personal lives, we sometimes wish to pursue things that we are happy doing for the rest of our lives... but if that's not what the others perceive as alright, they'll make a great hoo-ha over it until u succumb to their craziness...

When the human resolution is not strong enough, we WAYANG our way through just so as to gain some peace of mind (which the others will claim that u gained the peace because you've done the right thing by conforming to common belief)

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This will be a definite paradox...

Sometimes, we are also not allowed to display dissatisfaction, displeasure, suffering, pain or hurt... We will not be seen as 'right' because the others sometimes are not too receptive to us showing such feelings because they too are going through some form of dissatisfaction, displeasure, suffering, pain or hurt... So how could we be released from dissatisfaction, displeasure, suffering, pain or hurt when they are not...

So we learn to WAYANG and appear quite satisfied, pleased, not displaying any suffering, pain or hurt...

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Scene 4
It's interesting how, in the name of Accountability and Professionalism, which are highly regarded in order to portray good intentions and cooperativeness and to appear to be task-focused, we begin to do acts that we grumble over, but yet end up doing...

When we realised that we are rewarded for performing such tasks which we don't quite believe in, we begin to believe that maybe what we were asked to do were worth doing...

That's the final and complete transition into WAYANGism...

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Maybe that's the way it will be... maybe that's the way it should be in order to appear normal in our society... It's normal to wayang... and whoever does it well, gets on well...

It's not easy to tell if it's a good or bad thing to do, because reality is definitely perceived by the 'filters' that we are brought up to carry in our heads... maybe that's the reason we humans PERCEIVE ourselves to be superior beings because we are able to PERCEIVE a certain kind of reality that we choose to PERCEIVE...

Perception vs Deception... such a bloody fine line...