Bimbo note: I am gaining so much weight I'm starting to hate myself. Ugh.
Anyway, there is this one topic I have been talking about for quite some weeks already, about settling down.
Why the phrase -- "Settling Down"?
"It's time you get a wife and settle down..."
"You have to stop playing a fool and start settling down... yada yada..."
We hear these on TV or when grandparents/parents are nagging but do we actually know the real meaning behind "settling-down"?
I pondered for a bit, thinking that it just means that you find a partner and live the rest of your lives together, while your partner guards you with his/her life.
Then I started thinking about the literal connotation - It's about setting a routine for your life and stabilising it by adhering to that same routine. That includes how and when the laundry gets done, at what time do you visit the toilet everyday, your bedtime, and your daily expectations with deliverables everyday.
Life is such that parents think that by getting a job, buy a house, getting married, and having kids - is what life is set out to be, the moment you are born to them.
When life sets into a routine, there's nothing interesting about it anymore. Then, is this a life worth living? Or are you even living life?
It's difficult to get out of this cycle but then, the biggest risk in life - is to not take risks at all.
Anyway, there is this one topic I have been talking about for quite some weeks already, about settling down.
Why the phrase -- "Settling Down"?
"It's time you get a wife and settle down..."
"You have to stop playing a fool and start settling down... yada yada..."
We hear these on TV or when grandparents/parents are nagging but do we actually know the real meaning behind "settling-down"?
I pondered for a bit, thinking that it just means that you find a partner and live the rest of your lives together, while your partner guards you with his/her life.
Then I started thinking about the literal connotation - It's about setting a routine for your life and stabilising it by adhering to that same routine. That includes how and when the laundry gets done, at what time do you visit the toilet everyday, your bedtime, and your daily expectations with deliverables everyday.
Life is such that parents think that by getting a job, buy a house, getting married, and having kids - is what life is set out to be, the moment you are born to them.
When life sets into a routine, there's nothing interesting about it anymore. Then, is this a life worth living? Or are you even living life?
It's difficult to get out of this cycle but then, the biggest risk in life - is to not take risks at all.
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