Our society is a society which always asks for more.

• The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius (swifter, higher, stronger)
• You can find 5,620,000,000 results if you google "more"
• McDonald or Burger King or other fast food chains offer you to SuperSize your "value" meal (the word value is debatable actually, but let's discuss about that later on)
• Our children are told to have better grades, to achieve more and more and more

My question is, is it OK to always have more?

The industrial revolution in 18th century was surely brought a major and significant change in the way human live.
Steam machines, railways, textile industry mechanization, have improved the productivity.
Industrial Revolution also began an era of modern capitalization.
I'm not going to start a debate on economic system. But capitalization was undoubtedly asked for more. You need more capital to obtain more profit. Is it a problem? No! Why? Because everybody loves moolah!

Again, is it OK to always have more?

The global financial crisis we are facing right now is an example of the damage more can cause.
Those big cats at Wallstreet are wanting more and more. In the end, they end up having much less.

If you are not a "more" person, this economic recession is not a big deal actually.
Most of the people are still employed, people can still buy thing.
But people cannot buy more.
The main problem with a recession is trade and industrial activities are temporarily reduced, and for people who are asking for more, that's one hell of a problem.
Instead of looking at how much do we get this year, they ask how growth do we obtain this year?
There's nothing with growth. There's nothing wrong with improvement.
Change is a must, so is growth.
BUT, you should know the limit of your growth.
How much do you expect to get.
Be realistic, be modest, that's the key.
It's not the era of jeunesse dorée or haute couture anymore.

I'm not against capitalism or embrace Marxism.
I'm just reminding people of a principle they often forget.
The principle of equilibrium.
In order to get something you have to lose something.

Asking for more in the name of progress is not a wise move.
Sometimes having less will give you more.

For conclusion, I'm going to remind y'all what George Soros once told us about the importance of equilibrium.

"Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. The concept of equilibrium is very useful. It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it. But the concept is also very deceptive. It has the aura of something empirical: since the adjustment process is supposed to lead to an equilibrium, an equilibrium position seems somehow implicit in our observations. That is not true. Equilibrium itself has rarely been observed in real life — market prices have a notorious habit of fluctuating.
The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (1987)"

"Everything happens for a reason and everything starts from a reason"

Kepoyon 1:1 In the beginning, was the reason.

According to good, old, Mirriam-Webster, reason can be defined as:
1 a: a statement offered in explanation or justification reasons that were quite satisfactory
b: a rational ground or motive
c: a sufficient ground of explanation or of logical defense; especially: something (as a principle or law) that supports a conclusion or explains a fact.
d: the thing that makes some fact intelligible : cause

OK, I'm not going to start a philosophical/logical discourse on reason, so let's make an agreement on the definition of reason.
Reason is a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, etc.

And since everything starts from a reason, what are the reasons I make this blog?
There are some viable reasons why I make this blog:
1. I'm unemployed and I need to do something. (Deus te benedicas, God bless the unemployed ones, and let those who make fun of the unemployed be damned)
2. I want to share my idea and discuss it with other people.
3. Some people think that a Blogger is somehow cool (at least some people in Indonesia think so, geeks and nerds are not included)

Pretty easy to answer, right?
Now let’s go to a bigger scope.
What is the reason to live?

Reason to Live

Let's try to incorporate a little bit of logic to squeeze something interesting between the reasons to live and the reasons to make this blog.

Logic assumes reason as a premise of an argument.
Without a premise there would be no argument. (It's not really true, you can still make an argument, but that would be a senseless argument without any basis)
That's the same thing happened in the argument "Kepoyon created his blog"
If Kepoyon was employed, there is a probability that he would not make this blog.
If Kepoyon was such an egoistic who doesn't care with other people there is a probability that he would not make this blog
If people think that a Blogger is such a jerk than there is a probability that he would not make this blog
Without the reasons Kepoyon mentioned above, this blog may never be created.

Now let's take a look at the argument "God created Kepoyon"
What are the premises of this argument?
Why did God create Kepoyon?
Only God knows.


The End
Ad finem
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."






So, Is this the end?
Should we stop living because we don't know why were we created?

No it's not!
The reason to live is not something predetermined.

Some people search for it their entire life and still couldn’t find one.
Some people find it at the early years of their life.
Some people find it at the later years of their life.

Some say that they live to love somebody
Some say that they live to get rich
Some say that they live to help the needy

Ok, I'm not getting emo here, but my point is: never stop living because you thought you lose your reason to live.

You don't even know what your real reason is. Only God knows.
Just get busy living or keep busy dying.

Someday, somehow, you will truly find your own reason to love live