Loss is Gain

A lot of people think that loss is a failure to keep or to continue to have something. It might also be the experience of having something taken from you or destroyed. In fact, most of us will feel sad and disappointed for the second occasion.

For the last piece of blog in CTIG class, I am going to write about my perception related to this topic.

I am a student now, and I need to sit for exam in every semester. Before the examination begins, everyone is given 14 weeks to learn, revise and prepare for the exam. This is to ensure everyone is starting from the same line and to see who is the fastest runner at the end of the day. So, I am the one who always stuck at the middle. I lost to the people who were always in front of me and won the people who were behind of me. 

I always think that how good would it be if the people who always got better results than me is not existed in my freaking world. Then, I would not loss my position in the class, my self-esteem, my EQ and etc. I felt angry, sad, disappointed when there is someone perform better than me. We were once on the same starting line but I lost at the finished line. How good can it be to me?

So what do those elders words mean to be then? Loss is gain? I loss my position and GPA right now, so what did I gain? 

I have come out a conclusion for this so call of proverb, I loss something in the process and others gained it from me. That's what happening in this world now and accept it because I am living in it. 

Help yourself

Recently, there is an open burning has been carried out around my housing area. It is done by an refuse collection center who has been irresponsibility to the environment. I strongly believe that the owner of the refuse collection center has the knowledge about the effect of open burning but why the owner still does it? 

Imagine if one day I am the leader of a government in a country, I will persuade my cabinet to support my idea  in allocating budget to the research department. Nothing much but this budget is to invent a chips and put a human body to remind them what is bad. This chips are not going to control you but just remind you by alarming you with the words " This is a bad idea". 

If you ignored the suggestion that the chip had sent to you, data will be send to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE)。 Then, further law action will be taken by them to the offenders to make sure our mother Earth is protected. I have to emphasize that chance is given to the offenders when the chip reminded you once. No second nor third, because our mother Earth would not give us any chance anymore once she is gone. 

Kindly assumed yourself being someone who keep get stabbed by people you helped, sparing your life to them to live, but almost all of them are stabbing you again and again, will you give up on helping them before you die? or you'll be like our mother Earth, still doing what she can and gives us the best?

 

A device

Have you ever imagine when the Earth is totally polluted, and the natural resources that human needs are unable to be use anymore. Are we able to survive? Based on the technology that human possess now, sadly to say the answer is NO.

Most of the living things in the Earth need water to survive, especially human who relies on water so much. Human will die if we do not consume any water in 3 days. After 3 days, we will be perish. Are you willing to drink polluted water in the future? Maybe you can choose to die in 3 days or drink that polluted water and die slowly. 

Air allows us to carry out our respiration process. However, if the air now is polluted. Do you know that how many minutes can you survived without air? The answer is 3 minutes. Only 3 minutes.

Then is about the polluted food. Without food, human is able to live for only 3 weeks if water and air are provided. 

 

 And now, everyone know that pollution is bad to the environment and to the mother Earth but why we are keep carrying out the activities which bring a lot of negative impact to our planet. Personally, I feel that human is ignorant if they don't taste or experience something bad to themselves. When we don't see the impact, we are not afraid of it but once the consequences has shown up, we will be praying and begging for help when everything is too late and nothing can be done to save our Earth. 

 If there is a device that allows human to try the feeling of suffocate, to have a feeling of not drinking any water for 3 days and not eating any food for 7 days, will this phenomena change? 

If there is such a device, this technology must able to let human able to use their five senses when it connected to your brain. Then, the pulses that send out from the device able to stimulate our nerve cell and allows to taste the three situation that I have mentioned earlier just now. And to more extreme, the feeling of before being dead is able to be created.

Besides that, this device is use in education field to educate the youth the importance of natural resources and environment to us. Personally, I think that through education, awareness towards a certain issue will always be there. Therefore, to prevent human from destroying their home, this device must not has any side effects to the human body because it is about our life and future. 

But everything that our brain and body feel must be exactly 100% same as the situations of lacking of air, water and food when the device is connected. This is to warn the human for their ignorant and innocent. Once human has the 'real' experiences on such situation, then we will only appreciate and be grateful for what we are having now.

If you and I have the chance to try this device, I believe we will feel ashamed to ourselves because we are killing our mom with our own hands. I believe no one will not afraid of death if  they try the device.