who knows?

you get into fights with your parents about what to wear, what to say and how to act. they think one way and you think another way. it's something that we're all familiar with. most of the time, we don't have the same opinion and fight about it.

but sometimes, i wonder, do parents know what's right for us all the time?

yes experience is there. yes they have been through life. but then again, times have changed. what our parents think about things is not the way we think about it. even though parents don't want to admit it, there is a generation gap.

the way we think is different from the way they think and that's a fact. until all of us realise this and accept this, then everything will be a lot easier. sometimes, we happen to have a better idea of what's better for us than they do.

sometimes, we know what's better for us than they do. sometimes we've had more experience than they have. sometimes we just follow our gut feeling.

for example, our majors. i know some indian parents who have forced their kids into doing medicine or engineering. but what if you didn't want to do that? what if you wanted to do something more creative? what if you were better at psychology? then what?

are you going to continue to do what your parents are going to say? or are you going to do what you want to do and are good at?

are you going to spend the rest of your life hating your life and blaming your parents because you ended up doing something you didn't want to do? or are you going to stick up for yourself, do what you want and be happy with your life?

sometimes parents do know what is right for us. they do have experience and they want what's best for us. but sometimes, they don't know what we want to do and what'll make us happy. so stick up for yourself, voice your opinion. and eventually, they will come around. they will realise that you're doing better in what you're dong because you love it.

once in a while, you know what's best for you.

-s-

why paperplanes?

so i never explained why i called this blog paperplanes.

no, it's not because there weren't any other names available, it's because that's what my ideas are.

well not my ideas. ideas float around in the air. they're not a single person's thoughts or ideas. everyone has had them at some point in their lives. they just fly around, hoping that one day someone picks them up and says it out loud.

ideas such as studying, partying, life. everyone says that they've been through it before and they voice their opinion. their thought. their ideas. but that's the thing. it isn't one single person's. the ideas are everyones. the thoughts are everyone's.

and that's what i do.

i try to pick up ideas. pick up thoughts and re-use them. re-invent them. and then throw them back. make someone else use it and throw it back up again.

just like paper planes.

-s-

glass half-full?

half of the time, we think that nothing in our lives goes according to plan. we weren't supposed to fail that exam. we weren't supposed to eat that burrito. we weren't supposed to pass out at the party.

but we can't help it. life doesn't go according to plan sometimes and there's nothing we can do about it. we can't sit around and think "nothing is going right." we can't look at the glass and say it's half-empty all the time.

no one can pick us up and make us walk on our two feet. as children, we were the ones that had to take our first footsteps. no one helped us. and that's what life is about. no one is here to help us back on our own two feet.

no one is there to change the way you think. the way you look at life. the way you want to live it. that's for you to decide. for you to realise that maybe you need to look at things differently. that maybe the glass is actually half-full.

people can and will try to bring you down. to make sure that every step you take is a hurdle in life. we have to make sure that we jump over those and that we look at each day as something new.

look at everything in a different perspective. don't think you failed that exam. think that you aced the other one. don't think you ate that burrito. think that it doesn't matter because you have an amazing body anyways. don't think you passed out at the party. think that you had an amazing night.

if you start looking at things differently, you may just realise, that maybe the glass is half-full.