Just do it

I remembered the times when I grew up in a world without internet, youtube and (gasp!) google. If I want to find out about things, we have to listen to parents or teachers, whom we presume to know more about the world that we did. Either that, or we have to visit the library to search for the books and encyclopedias that are found there. They still are, just that these days with google, we tend to search online which is a very fast and efficient way instead of combing the entire encyclopedia starting from 'A' to 'Z' and hope to find a small entry with the information you need.


When I was stuck in playing those notoriously difficult old school RPG (like wizardry, wasteland, might and magic etc, NOT league of legends!) because of some insanely concocted puzzles, I'll come back to it later. Sometimes, you have to restart from a certain save points, fight all the equally insane battles to come to that stage again and then you get stuck again! But I'll remember the puzzles and vow to solve them one day. Often times, I feel that I'm still too immature or lack certain bits of knowledge to solve the puzzles, so after a few years and the itch comes back and so I'll re-play the games again and try to solve the puzzles to complete the game. If I still fail, I can go to sim lim to buy those Questbooks that give hints and tips written like this: Go to Lnqcnq to cdrsqnx the nmd qhmf (see if you can crack the code). I mean, no wonder I'm good at alphabets. They give you hints and guides, never directly, and even if so you have to work hard at it, so that the solution is yours to derive and not theirs to give.

That's important. You don't ever want to deprive someone of the joy of working hard at something, fail, and try again until they succeeded. You don't want to deprive someone of being addicted to success and the hard work that comes before it.


And so when I read this wonderful piece of art, with built in gif so that it actually freaking animates, I was mind blown. It talks about how we live in such an amazing age where the traditional way of doing things had been removed. Obstacles that used to stop someone from expressing themselves has been removed, at least partially. There's really absolutely no reason for someone with the will power and the sheer tenacity not to try and do something about the things that they are passionate about.


Perhaps the only obstacle left is yourself. Your nagging self doubts. Your lack of actions despite the lofty dreams that you constantly talk about. You.


We have met the enemy and he is us.