Brace yourself. I've finally got into a blogging mood and this shall be a preachy post.
1. Backtracking to a previous post
One good thing about having a blog is that you can type preachy stuffs in it so that next time, maybe one year later, you can go back and read it again. From that, you may learn stuffs that you have forgotten. I wrote a lot of preachy posts last time, one of it is title 'cracks'. I was talking about my previous phone and how there was a crack on the camera. But because there was a crack on the camera, some of my picture look nicer than if the crack wasn't there.
Looking at what I wrote again, I suddenly felt that I had dumbed down as times passed. I had been feeling so ashamed of my flaws that I was trying to kill them off. What I forgot to do was to embrace my flaws (my cracks) and let them bring a new form of beauty into my life.
Maybe a reckless person goes on more fun adventures due to his "flaw". Maybe a low-EQ person is happier because he is less sensitive. Maybe an anti-social can create a more diverse world of imagination with his introverted thoughts.
So maybe there aren't really flaws. Maybe they're cracks, but not flaws, because a crack may not be a flaw. It may hinder, but it may help too.
2. RPG roles and stats
The other day, Joey, Stef, Cx and I were having this really fun discussion about RPG (role-playing games) job/class kind of thing. We were associating people we know with classes. For example, I was associated with swordsman, and Stefanie was associated with Heavy Scout. We associated people based on their real-life "stats". For those of you who are unfamiliar with stats, they are basically a list of attributes of a person associated with a number (the higher the number, the better). For example, one attribute can be 'intelligence'. If your intelligence is 1, it is really bad, but if your intelligence is 100, it is really good.
Anyway, we associated people we knew with classes based on stats. We discussed what each person's highest stat was. Apparently, Cx's was intelligence. Of course, Cx, of course.
So, the point is, every class can do something. A sage can cast super powerful spells whereas a battle-mage can cast so-so spells and fight at the same time. A bard can strengthen his/her teammates and a healer can heal. But a healer cannot fight. He is helpless on his own. But every RPG party wants a healer because, well, he can heal.
There are many of such classes around in real life too - Healers, who are valuable in groups but cannot be alone; assassins, who are meant to be alone; harlequins, who can charm people but can't fight; battle-mage, who can do everything okay but not impressively; swordsman, who can fight close combats but is helpless from afar.
They are all useful and useless at the same time. We are probably all useful and useless at the same time too. Linking it back to part 1 of this post, we all have this crack that we can use to our advantage.
To wrap it up, this quote came to my mind randomly the other time: "This world needs all kinds of people". Personally, I find it true, because I came up with the quote.
Labels: personality, preachy