Tip

There's one book i read in my holiday that stands out differently from the other books I used to read before. I was holding "The Tipping Point" the other day but just couldn't make myself turn to the other page. Normally this happens on boring textbooks where I can stare at the first page for hours. Engaging books are page turners where I love to read as quickly as possible to get to the next story scene or ideas. However, this one is really different, outstanding I should say. I kept pondering a trivial idea from what I read.

Do you know about the equation y=mx+c? This is the straight-lined slope which always depicting gradual progress on the dependent variable as the independent variable increases. That's how most people view life to be as: Don't you agree that things develop at a gradual pace rather than...

Rather than steadily changes over time, most things in life happens strikingly so that you'd notice them. It's like the story of cooking a frog. A frog is placed on a pan. If hot water is poured into the pan, the frog will most likely jump out of it. Nevertheless, if you heat the pan slowly, the frog will also adapt to the heat until a point when it is totally cooked. Now, most of us are complacent to things happening around us, like it's okay to throw rubbish outside your moving car, it's alright to drink another can of beer at the party. Disaster won't usually happen because people did something radical, instead, it happens because of gradual taken for granted actions that silently lead to chaos. That's how pollution happens, that's how obesity-related illness happen, that's how undesired things happen as a result of continual misdeeds.

Well, think it like a logic karma, when a small good deed is performed over time, it'll lead to fruitful return, and vice versa. Normally people won't be bothered to change a petty but harmful behavior, they're more likely to concern the visible, loud happenings. And yet the silent one normally speaks louder and frightens the hell outta you!