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Every morning I wake up to the rich aroma taste of the instant coffee. Packed in 3-in-1 regular Nescafe classic, a cup of it jump start the day with extra excitement. In this fast paced world, everything has to be fast. The window of opportunity comes and goes in split of seconds. Like the other day when I passed by MRR2 on my way home, which the route that I often use. I came across a large billboard displaying 2 cups of coffee and a saucer. It forms a smiley face. It was an advertisement of a instant coffee. A 3-in-1 coffee.

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Our lives had become instant society. We had instant noodles. Instant coffee. Instant messaging. Instant picture. Instant this and instant that. Everything seems come with a shortcut. 3 minutes ready instant noodle. You no longer need to wait for another day just to get your noodle. Omit the hassle to get the ingredients to prepare a meal. Just add hot water. The instant mentality that caused us to be fast, immediate effect. Like cooking. To shorten the time, we use microwave. Instant. The next minute the food is ready to be served.

We are like chasing the time. Endlessly. Even in the relationship that is has been shortcut in a way. Instant relationship. The transition between the unknown – to friend and then to couple is instant. People take the form of instant mentality. No longer being patience with the things we do. Either in every single aspect of our lives. So, what does that makes us? We enjoy instant gratification instead of the delay gratification. Like the old sayings “Susah susah dahulu, senang senang kemudian” – let there be trials and tribulations so we could enjoy the fruit of labor in the later days.

To borrow the excerpt from the site here:-

“The ‘instant’ mentality is problematic. When you don’t get instant satisfaction, many people give up and turn away, creating a lot of instability in their lives.” For Gouder, marriage here is on a losing end as the ‘instant’ mentality gains ground:

“Around 20 per cent of people change their jobs. The politicians on one side say this is positive, others negative, but what could be really happening? The truth is that today’s mentality is that ‘nothing is permanent.’ This affects marriage as well, when people start doubting whether the word they gave their wife was permanent.

How we are going to address such issue in our society….

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There were two guys living together. One of them lacked chest
hair and it seemed to become a real problem for him.

So, one day he decided to visit the doctor to see why he had no
chest hair and if there was anything he could do about it.

Well, the doctor said there was nothing wrong with the guy, and
really the only thing he could do to try and stimulate hair
growth was to smother Vaseline all over his chest daily.

The guy was elated. He went home and immediately smothered his
chest in Vaseline.

When his partner came home and jumped into bed with him, he felt
the Vaseline and asked, “What in the hell are you doing?”

“The doctor said if I put Vaseline on my chest I might be able to
grow some hair”

“You idiot,” said his partner, “Think about it. If that were true
you’d have a pony tail coming out of your ass by now”

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by: Author Unknown, Aspiring to Greatness

How a person reacts to criticism often means the difference between success and failure. Take the case of Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist of the past century.

His practical father, a chemist, sent him to the University of Christiania to study for the ministry and forbade him to play his beloved violin. He promptly flunked out and, defying his father, devoted all his time and energy to the violin. Unfortunately, though he had great ability, his teachers were relatively unskilled, so that by the time he was ready to start his concert tour he wasn’t prepared.

In Italy a Milan newspaper critic wrote: “He is an untrained musician. If he be a diamond, he is certainly in the rough and unpolished.”

There were two ways Ole Bull could have reacted to that criticism. He could have let it make him angry, or he could learn from it. Fortunately he chose the latter. He went to the newspaper office and asked to see the critic. The astounded editor introduced him. Ole spent the evening with the 70-year-old critic, asked about his faults, and sought the older man’s advice on how to correct them.

Then he canceled the rest of his tour, returned home, and spent the next six months studying under really able teachers. He practiced hours upon hours to overcome his faults. Finally, he returned to his concerts and, when only 26, became the sensation of Europe.

Am i too old to learn a few tricks of those?

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