f.e.a.r. and EXCITEMENT!

I was reading the post by the dearest Mil in down under about fear of the unknown and lost in a T junction. I was touched. How fast the time flies......... Purrrrr and here it is, at the junction of university life graduation stepping into the unknown. Partly sad, partly excited, partly confused and partly fearful. Such a wonderful feeling!

It seems that somehow sooner or later we will be dumbfounded once in a while. It is a mighty feeling, IMHO. Normally, these feeling comes when we reached to a stage of plateau and time for a need of change.

I believe the way to overcome this is to determine the exact cause for this feeling. The root and where does this feeling came from? After that, what we need to do is to be positive and constructive looking pondering into the future of the unknown. For me, reaching for the stars and feeling of the unknown makes my adrenaline goes wild. The risk and the feeling of the excitement NOT knowing how does it ends up to makes it so much more exciting!

Think back. If GOD were to show you a direction everytime and let you know how you are supposed to end up, wheres the beauty in that? Whats the challenge then? Would you still be able to create something new and something exciting in your life?

If you are to know how you will end up, would you still want to work and strive that hard to overcome that difficulty that lies ahead? Or would you just give up and let the path lets you since that you ALREADY know how the future looks like.

You will still want to eat that or smoke that, since that you KNOWS that you will die sooner or later and this and that bla bla bla? Wheres the beauty? Wheres the excitement? What will you become? A robot or a puppet? Being controlled by god or higher being?

I believe the best thing about being yourself is that, you are in control of your own destiny. Its within you and at the grasp of your hand. Let NO 1, i mean, NO ONE influence and control what you wanted to be. *just make sure its within the boundary of karma and being a good person within, causing no harm to anyone else*

Kings and leaders from centuries ago created a mind block for peasants and average person telling them that religion is good and what they are supposed to do! Can you imagine the scenario if everyone is being told from young that they can be the king of all kings? Who want to wash the dishes then? Who wants to herd and farm then? It is supposed to be a balance. And the king wanted all the control by himself. It cruel and its selfish. But, hey! its nature and its life. If not, who wants to cook that indomie goreng for you at Murni SS2?

The reason that you feel FEARFUL is because you are NOT USED to it! Thats all. Theres nothing more to it! Its simple. You feel fear because you have YET TO tried it! You are not used to it!

Imagine this! You are used to the habit of buying COLGATE to brush your teeth for the last 20 years. Today i tell you this. There will be no more COLGATE around. Theres not even DARLIE or other other brands of toothpaste. You can only use coal ashes to brush you teeth. Like ancient times. Using coal ashes to brush your teeth. It might not be safe and its not proven yet.

How would you feel?

1. Would you scream and rants to everyone and blame everyone in the way that COLGATE is no longer available?

2. Would you sit there and do nothing? Just ignore it. Whats the worst case scenario, i just use water to brush la!

3. You don't even notice that you USE COLGATE at all. Did I use toothpaste? *extremely blur case, but it exists*

4. You would jump up and down full of excitement! YES YES! Its coal ashes and its natural! I no longer need to queue up to buy COLGATE at supermarket. I am superly fantastically excited! YES! I am into the unknown!

5. You are cool as ice. You are as steady as a rock. You are optimistic, you are a business-man-minded and you are a natural born enterpreneur! The 1st thing that you do is to find sources to manufacture different brands of COAL-ASH-GATE to sell. You market it through the principles of marketing (4P + 3p + 4P) *Please google it or find the reference here in wikipedia) The breakdown of 11Ps = Product, Pricing, Place, Promotion, People, Process, Physical evidence, Personalization, Participation, Peer to peer and Predictive Modeling. Please go on and read more, you lazy bugger! You think of strategies to market internationally. You talk to investors to raise fund and raise capital. You talk to banks. You recruit a team of super excellent individuals who work as a team. You plan to franchise it overseas. You sign a contract with them to bind them legally. You hire a team of accountant and tax advisors. You consult business lawyers to make sure your business and product is copyrighted. OMG! Can you imagine how excited it is!

I am so excite now even as i write this article. OMG!

So, who are you? Choose the numbers from 1 to 5. Who you want to become? I am definitely a number 5. Your "destiny" lies in YOUR CHOICE!

Don't be afraid of the unknown. Alexander the GREAT would never be GREAT if he had not chartered into the unknown conquering his enemies from Europe to Asia. Napolean Bonaparte would have never be in the history if he sits in his room smoking and having fun all the time. American would belongs to Indian tribes if Christopher Columbus decided to stay at home. We would not have our Portuguese Egg Tart in Macau if Portuguese decided to stay at home. We would starve to death in Guangzhou if not for our ancestors who take the risk into the unknown to come to the place so-called as Malaysia.

See See See! History belongs to the risk takers. There is nothing to be afraid of. Those who are always in the comfort zone will never comes out. Those who calculates too much will ridicule themselves from coming out. Those who are afraid, as some says, NO GUTS!

We must 1st calculate the risks and SEE THE BIG PICTURE! Simple scenario. If the bank officer were to ask you today, how much are you worth? What is your answer? Could you tell me how much you are worth? Are you worth a billion bucks or even worth 1 million bucks in net worth?

If your answer is a million bucks, then think about it? Is it worth losing that million bucks? Of course, there are always intangible worth such as EGO, FACE, FAMILY and etc etc etc. Decide for yourself what is important for you. What you really really REALLY wants for your life! What you will regret if you did not do IT? What you really love the mosts! That you can make yourself to wake up to feeling full of excitement.

As my quote by the side of my blog says. As quoted from Steve Jobs.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO!

DO WHAT YOU LOVE!

LIVE EVERYDAY AS IF OF YOUR LAST DAYS!

Would you still be fearful of the unknown? Would you still be sitting there regretting your choices? Would you still sit there pondering into the unknown? The decision lies with you...... ....... ....... ........ ......... ........

Go on to Youtube.com and search for Steve Jobs Stanford Graduation Speech. Watch it and cry if you have to. Its a bible for success and its absolutely mind-blowing.

Until then, i give you this STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH!