Too Much is Never Good at All

I learned something, that human will just never have enough for themselves. That the grass is always greener on the other side, that human will never be thankful enough of whatever they have. Everybody might say that it is lucky to be you, but human will always look at the negatives, trying to compare oneself to others, and say, "I want that, too." While in fact, he might have things just much better. Basically, human wants to have just everything. Human will never have enough.

So we live in this realm of the unreal, where we pretend that everything can be done without concerning anyone, anything, any limits. Where everything can go on just the way we want it. Where we can just switch to anybody we'd like to be at that very moment, where we can just throw away what we have right now and replace it to another stuff, and take it back again whenever we want it. Where we don't need to have any regrets because of any reason whatsoever, because everything can be played back and forward. As easy as pressing the button 'stop', 'reverse', 'fast forward', 'pause', 'eject', 'power' on the radio. This is the ideal, the unreal; where you are daydreaming.

But then I have also learned, that you can always choose how you are going to live. Whether you want to live in reality, or you want to live in daydreaming. The later, I admit, is addictive. And though many of us know the inevitable risks of it, many of us enjoy it. Many of us fall into this thinking that we are saving the best for the last, that is sometimes pain in disguise. Daydream is always tempting; it is always luring, it is always relieving. But too much is never good at all.

I've heard a story before. There is one guy, having a monkey with a very long tail. He loves the monkey so much, but he feels irritated, too, because everytime the monkey jumping around the house, the tail will keep smashing everything that is in the house. So he knew that he needed to take an action. If he is to keep the monkey with him, then he'd better cut the long tail of the monkey. If not, this problem will keep going on. But by the time he is to cut the long tail, he felt so bad. He didn't have heart to cut the long tail. "It must be very painful for the monkey!" So he decided, "I will not cut the long tail at one shot. NO! It must be very painful! The monkey will not be able to bear it. I will just cut little by little."

Stop daydreaming. Now or later, the pain will be the same. Even, the pain may be greater if we keep postponing and cut it off little by little. I learned that too much daydreaming is never good at all. We are alive, so just be real.