One day (last week) my friend asked us (the hostel gang) a simple question which gave a small bout of debate but it does worth the time talking about it:
Do you...
i) Eat to live or
ii) Live to eat?
Well you see here, I have asked about let's see... 5 of my friends here and only one answered what I answered - Live to eat.
I am just thinking of what I read from Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom (that book made me cry like a baby in the end of the story when the rabbi died) last month; "Do you know why when a baby is born, he grasps his hands like this? Because he wants to grab everything in the world. Do you know why when an old man dies, he loses his grip and opens his hands like this? That's because he knows that he could not take everything with him from the world when he dies." That line struck me deep and it also struck many people when I shared it with.
This have shown a few common psychological facts that I have discovered due to that question.
EAT TO LIVE:
1. Worry more that doing it right
2. Grateful but not that much
3. Bound by many insecurities
4. Think too much of uncertainty
5. Live like they're dying
LIVE TO EAT:
1. Just do it (worrying is later)
2. Grateful and simply thankful of what they have - extra things are unnecessary
3. Feels home in almost any possible place
4. What may be, may be/Let bygone be bygone
5. Happy-go-lucky/live like there's no tomorrow/carpe diem
Kyrie eleison; Supplicanti parce, Deus.
Disclaimer:
Do not read on one section and conclude the other as total opposite. This is not something like Biology for you to compare Mitosis and Meiosis or Economics in comparing Capitalism and Socialism market structures. This is life.
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