bye bye bubble

I am so not in the creative mood but a very good advice from a professor in my college years suddenly submerge from my subconscious so I decided to share it here. The advice is simple:

- break the bubble -

We all live inside our bubbles. It's our comfort zone. If we insist on safely staying inside the bubble all the time, not only will we become boring motherfuckers, we will also develop narrow mindedness, chronic stupidity and in time we will turn into full-blown judgmental, non-creative, incompetent assholes.

So break the bubble. Do things that you're not used to. See what it's like for other people.

Bookworms, ditch your books and take drugs.
Sluts, celibate.

You get the picture.

For me, I found the exercise liberating. Granted it was risky at times but it helped me survive even the toughest challenge in life. And the good thing was, it helped me to empathize more and eventually I stopped hating people so much. Except for, well, people who take advantage of others and people who judge. Most amazingly, it turned on a switch in my brain which enables me to grasp a better understanding of things.

So it's one of the few things I promise I will keep on doing to my self. I'll keep on breaking the bubble.