The Internal Monologue

It Will Take Whatever It Wants. The price is always different, mainly because of our virtues, cultures, DNA, religions, and simple basic behaviours. For example, what it cost me to get a BIng didn't cost some of my mates/peers. Those who were in a class with me knew there was a guy who used to come to class with a blue cooler box full of goodies. He was the best 1st year Engineering student, and I think he later got the degree with Cum Laude. Me! I had a lot of non-school-related issues to manage, e.g., cooking, making new friends, and other village-to-city adaptations. But in the end, we all got BIng degrees after paying incurring different costs. To get where you want to go, it will cost you whatever it wants. You have to pay the price that is on your quote/bill. We are all dealt different hands by nature. It is just that it tends to take more than you initially imagined, and even more the older we get. There's just too much stuff to lose as we become risk-averse. Changing co...

My Life Outlook I'm not the first and not the last to write on this. They have written and will continue writing on this subject. Life is what you make of it. John Milton once said, " The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. " This leads me straight to what Kendrick recently said when he said that " As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective. And my perspective may differ from yours. " I mean, my perspective may differ from my perspective next year. Hence, the disclaimer that this is "Not the whole story". Change is a sign that one is thinking and reconsidering his position based on new information/evidence. Change is growth. I will hate to hold the same views I hold today in 5 years. But, if I still have the same opinion, I need to have more evidence than I do today. Life is a perspective. Reality remains objective; we just mess it up when we run it through our mostly subjective interpreter software: the...