Mind Tricks?
Disclaimer : This article has nothing to do with my faith in Islam. To all muslims…don’t ever have doubt in Islam. These are just the thoughts i have about eveything else in life.
Hmm…mind trick? What the hell am i talking about? Well…we gonna discover it all soon. Actually, i got this idea to write an article bout it in these last 2-3 days. "Make believe"….yupp…i guess these are the words that we don’t hear everday but we encounter almost every single day. In this world we only believe in what we wanna believe…in all matters…love, way of thinking, what ppl think of us, infos we get, etc. It is all true? What we believe in? Hmm…tough one isn’t it? 
We love to think that good things are true and bad things are false. The sentence before is true rite? But do we have the right definition for ‘good things’ and ‘bad things’ ? As for the ‘usual’ things…they might be easier to define. How bout ‘heavier’ things ? As for example…giving out money to the unprivileged. Have u ever ask yourself why u do it? Is it because of a ‘trend’ ? or maybe because we want something back from it? or just simply because of compassion? Alhamdulillah…i don’t know anyone who does the first one (or do i? i would like to think that i don’t know anyone like that…hehehe) The second…this is a tough one…ppl always say "Kalau selalu bagi sedekah…nanti rezeki kite murah". Hmm…what do u think of that? Well…to me the original thought was kind… but this kind of Make believe has left us expecting something in return. This is what that has been set in our mind for a long time and we think it is true…well is it? The third reason…compassion…do we have the rights to be compassionate? Are we on the right track to be compassionate? Think and realise…compassion could lead us to a wrong path…where we’ll feel superior…and the worst part is…we don’t realise it.
There are so many things in this life that we take for granted. These are little things that has created such contradiction in ourselves. We say…we believe in ‘this’ but we do ‘that’…keep doing ‘things’ just because the ppl does it. So…where that leaves us? Are we standing for what we believe or just for what the ppl believes? I’m not saying that we should be different…it’s just that we should question ourselves from time to time… after all… what’s popular is not always right…rite? There are so much taboos in our ppl these days…some of it are just plain sick and some of it have become a part of us. So…becareful of what we choose to say and believe coz it will bite us back in the ass, big time…sooner or later. Put some thoughts in it mates!
Many thanx to Mr John Mayer and Mr Jamie Cullum for the inspiration.
