Tuesday, May 17, 2005
inordinately serious thoughts
i've been spending so much time blogging on behalf of Amy Lim Ai Mee that I've hardly had any time to document my own life. which is something of a pity, because so many more things have been happening to me in the past few days than to her. all she's done is create alot, alot of accounts on places like flickr, asiansinglesconnect, icq lite, limewire, ebay, sms ac. and all sorts of other bewildering virtual locations. its quite funny that a techie idiot like me is being made to act as a total tech guru, and under a false identity too, but it all goes to show how easy it is to be someone totally different online. imaginary friends. faceless dates. the whole dodgy yet intriguing array. its kinda fun, in a way. there are no stakes, no opportunity costs, and as long as you don't involve any part of the real you in it ( that's the hard part), no risks.unlike real life, which, for me at least, is totally shot through with opportunity costs. happy problems, i would call them on happy days. but on normal days they are just problems. i always knew that it's not a wise idea to go throwing your time and money and worst of all, thought, at things you don't really want, just so you'll have the biggest possible spread at the end of the day. but greed always wins over. it gets almost depressing, the more i think about it.
and i think about it alot. or rather, i spend an inordinate amount of time with it on my mind, but not neccessarily thinking productively about it. most of the time i'm just wallowing in what a big problem i have and how i'll never solve it. the de bono thing is right. the intelligence trap. even though i;m not that intelligent, i'm exasperatingly good at convincing myself and everyone around me about what i think at the moment. and so every argument in every single direction makes so much sense that i don't know which one to choose.
the answer, of course, is to just stop thinking and do. since every argument makes sense then it means that every argument has its good points and hence there is little to lose. i find it hard to compare opportunity costs because the conditions are simply so different. maybe the thing to consider is the TIMING of the opp cost. what is the next best alternative that i am sacrificing, which i will NEVER AT ANY POINT IN THE FUTURE be in similar or better position to enjoy?
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