belief, to believe

I quote this post from Nazri:

"One day, we'll all take a step back and laugh at how we're taking ourselves too seriously.

It's the same complex that drives our elitist mindsets. We're all trapped in a cycle of tossing away the immature and replacing it with the latest BETA version of what we deem as "higher-order thinking". Out with the old and in with the new. It's the chronic disease of our plasticized generation. We need something that can make all of us realize that who we are, then and now, are essentially different constructions from the same box of Lego. We're only cheating ourselves by not realizing that our derived thoughts are nothing but the same words rephrased in pretentious and obscure structures. Just like how different companies try to market products from the same factory.

We need to realize this, and we need to start laughing at ourselves. Fast."

Quality post, gets my full sincere applause.

But I beg to differ.

It's not our elitist mindsets. We are not trapped in a cycle of tossing away the immature and moving on to a level of higher order thinking. Rather, we are trapping ourselves in our innate need to see something creative, to pretend we can be something that some other person never was before. We need to convince ourselves that our self-entrapment is unconsciously self-voluntary. We do not want to step out of our comfort zone, we do not want to venture anywhere in places and spaces where no one has ever gone, in fear that we will go up against the unknown that will cripple our minds. We are paralyzing ourselves, in order to want to belong, in order to want to know we exist, in order to tell ourselves we are doing something meaningful in life, when the idea of the meaning in life is a severe irony in itself in the first place.

Yes, we can all come from the same box of Lego. But the choice of what you want to be, is infinite. You can choose to use up all the pieces in the Lego set, or you can choose to use only those pieces that you believe would help in the construction of what you dub "identity". Let me tell you what I think, there's no such thing.

But there's one thing I agree with. We need to start laughing at ourselves, fast. But for different reasons from what Nazri had in mind. We need to laugh at ourselves, at our foolishness for ever believing in things that we thought we couldn't achieve, when it was in us all along. We need to laugh at ourselves, that we're idiots that want to trap ourselves in a status quo enclosure and yet blame it on social factors when our innate reluctance to change is the deciding factor in the end.

And we need to laugh at ourselves, because we really do need a laugh.