The Noodle Bowl Effect

1. With the world economy getting more integrated than ever, more trade agreements, covenants, framework, trade cartels, collusion, unions and etc were formed in the basic of common goods and benefits. FTAs after FTAs and hence the word spaghetti is coined thus resulting the spaghetti bowl effect. One can observed the similarities between the image left and right to have a clear understanding on the economic term widely used recently due to the discussion of TPP in Malaysia. (Enlightened by a journal paper courtesy of Dr. SK Goh from USM)
2. It is all too similar with my current stage of mind, perhaps the only different is the magnitude; the serving of the spaghetti.
3. The intelligence quest is a no brainer, it constituted most of the meaning i found in my life thus far. The creation of knowledge from the process of data collection, information gathering, analysis and finally the distillation to the elixir we called knowledge.
4. On the other side, there is this internal struggle. On staying in the comfort zone or breaking away from it. It is too often we heard about breaking away from it, to embrace growth, to experience the new and to get a re-start. What about staying put? How about giving the new a try ? The fear of loosing or the bravery to embrace a new ? 
5. We are all seeking for the truth about life, hacking into it for a happy and purposeful life. The realm of social norms, or perhaps the need of oneself to please the people around us, shaping our decision and way of life. Living in the human society, under the obscene monitoring of the realistic eyes, and our primitive desire to compare to be better had all shape our beliefs and our do's and don's. 
6. The hardship is on filtering through the noise; listening to the call from the inner self; looking at the gain and loss not as the finality but as the many events of life. After all, how much we can used ( to eat, to stay, to utilize the physical things we owned) is all limited, bounded by the nature cycle of life and death. The very essence of life lies on the very meaning we find, and if we got the higher knowledge of grasping and understand it.