Andy Warhol said, “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” You can’t choose the 15 minutes but why would you be world famous?

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What he said fits into our current world exactly. We can inform people of our opinions or suggestions through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or personal blogs. But, in this post, I would like to discuss how he foresees the future.

Just before the advent of the internet, we were happy if some of our acquaintances or friends appeared on TV. But nowadays it is not like that - we are not happy about such an occurance in the same way. We just upload our stuff onto the web. Once one of our uploaded things attracts a great deal of attention among people, you can be famous through whatever you choose to display; just like Warhol said in the past. Maybe he was only one of the famous painters. But he was interested in movies, business, and relationships among people. I think the variety in his point of views made him say something profound like that.

Like someone else once said, “Stretch your ideas and thoughts”, if we put our efforts into researching that which we are interested in, I think we can predict the future and prepare something for it..

Time never waits for you.

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I like to listen to music, especially old pop songs such as the Beatles’ classy songs, Queens’ rock numbers, or The Rolling Stones’ active rockn’roll. While listening to them, I enjoy both the melodies and the lyrics. But one song catches my mind. That is “Yesterday”.

That song is very famous to people, and has beautiful melodies and emotional lyrics. And I think everybody loves that song. But what I see in the song is that it is just about the obsessions of the past. The contents of that song are saying that the days spent with a loved one are so beautiful that I cannot lose sight of those days with 'you'. Even though there is no word of “IF” in past history, what if the songwriter changes the lyrics into a future-oriented tune? Then I would love that song much more.

In short, time never waits for us. So I do what I have to do now in order to prevent me from regretting and lamenting my springtime of golden life in the future.

God knows

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Before I begin with this topic, I notice that it is not related to any specific religions.

Did you expect to be where you are now, or do what you do now, 10 years ago? Maybe some of us had plans and are maintaining these plans. But life is not fair - as you well know by now. Only God knows; which means no one knows.

I sometimes think of my past 4 years living in Cape Town. There were happy and funny occasions; and quite frustrated ones. Most of things that I remember at the moment are (alas) the latter - because living in a foreign country is not easy. Whenever I had problems, such as school work or private things, I deeply contemplated going back to my home country; also, people I knew and spoke to recommended that too. But, as I was bearing the difficult times, I realised, “No one knows”. No one expected me to be where I am now; studying what I'm studying..

In conclusion, life is a long run. No one knows or can predict where you are, what you do, and how you will be changed in the future, so, only God knows that.

A skill set called leadership

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As most of us know, leadership is about leading people. There are lots of qualities found in good leadership; such as ambition, patience, or humbleness. Anything that you choose could be your skill set, but your skill set is only as good as you can say for yourself.

As I state above, there are many skills required for leadership. But I would like talk about how to collect and keep them. For example: in a pencil case, there is a pen, eraser, blue and red pens. Each of these items is used in different ways. No one carries a pencil case for just one pen. Leadership is a set of tools.

 And, in short, I think if you collect them now, you should be like a pencil bag with a strong zip. Then you will be able to hold onto a perfect leadership set.

Media destroys our relationship?

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The question of how much media influences our relationship is known as an old one. It has been the topic of conversation in many ways; like school work, family, or communities. Media has brought lots of conveniences and novelties to us. It is a fact that we not only have benefits from it but also enjoy it.

However, I think we sometimes overlook the side effects of it. We just use it as our benefit. If you have a smartphone, I would like to recommend you “watch yourself during supper with your family”; or ask yourself, “how many times do you talk to your lovely phone without speaking?”

Maybe this topic would not be a good question or perhaps my arguments are not applicable to everybody. But I just want to ask you to switch to vibrate during supper with people or while you are in class. Then you can keep at least a piece of your relationship with your lovely family.

Success

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I cannot say what success is because I have not had such a big one (like winning the lotto). But I can say it is almost impossible to succeed without hard work. Those who are successful, like millionaires, are always diligent and determined.

I so badly want to express my experiences but, as I stated above, I have not got any that meet up to what I imagine true success to be. However, money or physical stuff is not everything for success to exist. Let me ask you something true. Where are you now? What do you do? How is  your plan going? I think most of you may answer like I do with my family: I've been studying at CPUT for 4 years; studying for my life. 

Now, 4 years means you have been successfully survived for 4 years, and that you've got people who can support you in your goal. We just ignore that truth and do not have grateful minds for them.

Maybe that you were even born itself is success. Don’t you think so?

Pains in the ass

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I woke up in the morning, boiled water for coffee, sat in my chair, turned on my laptop and hopped onto the internet as usual. I read an article about Steven Jobs. Actually, the article is for the management and business community. What the article most attacked was one of the sub topics; Pains in the ass.

In fact, in the sub topic, it just explains Steve Jobs’s careers; and to be honest, I am not interested in his features and the article. I only focused on that topic. How long people can sit in a chair per a day? Is it possible to keep sitting in a chair 10 or 15 hours only focus on work? And can it be achieved by sitting in a chair? Some people preach about effectiveness and others preach patience as a means to achieve a goal.

Which one do you prefer or belong to?

If I have a specific mission and belief to achieve a goal, I am definitely willing to do so too. But the problem is that I have not tried to do so today. Tomorrow…..should I do that?