“This place is filled with cockroaches and the biggest one is standing in front of me.”
- PinknPurpleLizard (intending to say to a certain F&B manager)
p/s – Please use this phrase with discretion or else u may get into LOADS of TROUBLE.
“I applied to major in nonsense-ology and minor in crappyness but no university offered the courses. My natural talent and skills have gone to waste.”
- by PinknPurpleLizard to Kadazan Bonita
There are days when we are just plain tired. And there are days we’re super tired. But there are days when we’re just dog tired.
“A lot of people are tired around here, but I’m not sure they’re ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.” Jim Jones
Soon we’ll all have to retire from something to another; be it work, interests or life. We retire on a daily basis when we retire to sleep. We need our luxurious, energizing sleep to ease our tired bodies for the next day’s onslaught. We need to have temporary retirements (termed short breaks) to rejuvenate our minds.
“I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn’t do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.” Jana Novotna – Tennis Player
It does get tiresome to get back into the cyclical lives we lead. Things going around in circles day-in and day-out without much change. We get mired into the soothing familiarity of routines. But do you realise that we are in dire need of a change? That little voice at the back of your head crying out for that change. It’s tired of the daily drawl of being a drone.
“If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…. But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.” Ursula K. Le Guin
At times, we sit down and wonder, “Why am I so tired?”. The true answer does not come easy that’s why it’s better to speak/tell someone how you feel. Surprisingly there are many who are willing to lend an ear to listen to the rant of the tired soul. One can do it with family, friends, colleagues, professionals like psychiatrists and even websites such as tired.com.
“All parts of the human body get tired eventually – except the tongue.” Konrad Adenauer
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” Mother Teresa
When you start to feel tired, do something out of the norm! It may make your day fun and happier once in a while. If something makes you tired all the time (but unhappy), try finding another alternative to get out of the tiresome routine.
“I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.” Nana Mouskouri – Greek Singer
If you’re too tired, try letting someone help take the load off your tired shoulders for a while. Who would do that? A true concerned person would. 
Perhaps, your feeling tired is just your body/brain telling you to just kickback and relax for a while.
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.” Dorothy Thompson
Have a good rest this weekend!
If there’s anyone out there who has never felt frustration, let the person stand up and be called a liar. Even God gets frustrated with us as we are all so demanding and do not heed His ways. Even animals and babies get frustrated so who are we adult humans to say we do not feel this emotion?
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” Leon Tronsky
Frustration is part of life. As said in the first paragraph, everyone gets frustrated. Through frustration can we only obtain perserverance, patience, sympathy, pity, empathy and unconditional love. Frustration also helps us master skills and learn new things.
“People need trouble — a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” William Faulkner
Imagine how many things were created out of frustration. Take for example mechanised harvesting of grapes (for wine). It must have been that an enologist (wine maker) was frutstrated that hand picking took too long and the desired ripeness of the grape had passed when it had reached him for crushing. Mechanised harvesting helped the enologist be rid one frustration.
“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.” David Abrahansen
How does frustration come about? To me, I understand that frustration occurs when one is hindered. When we are unable to do, get or understand something, be it tangible or intangible, ppl get frustrated. The inability to obtain, perform or understand acts as a hindering barrier to a person, be it physical or mental. In other words, frustration does also come about when we feel inadequate and at times useless to over come the situation or task. Frustration may lead to many other strong emotions such as anger, sadness, irritation and violence which may eventually lead to heinous crimes. On this note, frustration can be dangerous on extreme levels.
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion… I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Frustration exists in all our beings but to what extent does this frustration exist in us is an important matter. Like a soda can or bottle, frustration is the pressure in us that can make us explode like a shaken soda can or bottle when opened. How we curb and overcome it or how we let it out is also rather important. Some ppl require time, some laugh, some exercise, some eat, some drink, some cry, etc. Different ppl deal differently from others. In the end, we just have to be respective of the person’s choice panacea.
“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than we seem to lack but one thing.” Eric Hoffer
Sometimes we feel this emotion because we want something better for us and/or our loved ones. For example – It is not wrong for parents to feel frustrated because they’re unable to better understand their child. Often it is the ppl we know who cause us to feel frustration rather than our enemies or ppl we dispise. It is a funny thought at that but I guess there’s a price to pay for allowing someone to share your circle.
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Jacob Braude
Perhaps we should look upon ourselves when we feel frustration. We should not always look to blame others for making us feel frustrated. Perhaps we misunderstand something of the situation or are unable to empathise. Whatever the reason it maybe, we should self-analyse of how could we avoid frustration when next we encounter it. Try a different approach to the situation or talk things out. When all else fails… Either pray or walk away or let sleeping dogs lie for the moment before readdressing the issue.
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to — act as if it were impossible to fail.” Dorothy Brande
Common sense isn’t common property although the word common denotes that we should all have this in us.
“Common sense ain’t common.” Will Rogers
But without common sense, knowledge would be quite redundant as one wouldn’t know how to really apply it effectively.
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!” Goethe
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert Green Ingersoll
So before you say to your friends,”Its common sense la…” Pls empathise coz they may not know it. UNLESS its something really dumb-ass then feel free to take the liberty to make fun of your friends and quash their ego a little. 