It's a 1st World Economy side effect. It's a grim statistic but I hope it's not a continuos uphill trend. I believe as our society becomes more modern we forget to indulge in our spiritual needs, only material ones.
That's when one begin to wonder the purpose of life and feels nothing to lose by ending it.
It seems our young ones (the so called "strawberry generation") is destined to slog away their entire life in a never ending cycle of rat races right from the moment the day they are born.poor thing. the stress level in SG is really high. Not only that, there are increases of mental illness. Thats why the government was doing more awareness campaign last year. But the msg was pushed to the public to take responsibility. Gahmen people just warn severe consequences if pace of life is slower... haha... :bsmilie:
It seems our young ones (the so called "strawberry generation") is destined to slog away their entire life in a never ending cycle of rat races right from the moment the day they are born.
These people are smart, they know the cash cow cannot go on producing milk forever thus they go all out, at their best to squeeze the neh neh as hard as they could for every single drop while they still have the oppturnity and time to do so. When the cow runs dry, it will start chewing itself to death from hunger.
It's a 1st World Economy side effect. It's a grim statistic but I hope it's not a continuos uphill trend. I believe as our society becomes more modern we forget to indulge in our spiritual needs, only material ones.
That's when one begin to wonder the purpose of life and feels nothing to lose by ending it.
That's a too simplistic approach to look at it, as per the relations of causality, this is merely the effects of consequences. Scratching beyond the surface and getting to the the root cause, we just have to ask ourselves "What influenced young Singaporeans to behave as such?" and "When do young Singaporeans start behaving as such?"Our root problem is we always have to have it all and be one up on the joneses. Lens must be L or its lousy. Cars must be conti. Homes must come with a security guard and pool. My Kids must be smarter than other kids. And the list goes on. And yet we are not prepared to slog and not mentally strong enough to overcome challenges and emerge the stronger for it. We are diggin our own graves.
You need money to indulge in material needs. No money no honey and spiritually bankrupt. :think:
You are downright wrong.:nono::nono:
You can be poor but spiritually contented. Only those who only seek material wealth will feel empty inside, their material acquisition provide brief happiness at most.
That's a too simplistic approach to look at it, as per the relations of causality, this is merely the effects of consequences. Scratching beyond the surface and getting to the the root cause, we just have to ask ourselves "What influenced young Singaporeans to behave as such?" and "When do young Singaporeans start behaving as such?"
I hope u r not alluding that someone else (or the current govt?) is to be blamed? anyway, What I am saying is, one can take ownership of one's life, choose to do something and rise above, or be stuck in the mud and bitch. As my former discipline master always told me, the choice is yours. What's your choice?
lots of articles have been written in the recent years highlighting that Singaporean society is moving to a trend where people put undue pressure on themselves to "work in an office in shenton way", "drive a posh car", "live in expensive property" and so much more, just because they want "face", "recognition" and "status".
You need money to indulge in material needs. No money no honey and spiritually bankrupt. :think:
I believe that one has to have a certain baseline of affluence to not have to worry about things. By that, I don't mind being able to show off your spanking new condo with nice nice fittings to friends or to drive a loud noisy sports car around town.. After all, people have families, and you also want to have some amount of reassurance that you will be able to provide for them. But that's to do with having a sufficiently sized roof over your head (i.e. no 1 room flat for 5 people), and square meals everyday. Everyone has different dreams in life, but really, at the end of the day, we should take anything else as a bonus. Life becomes a lot simpler that way.
I also believe that poor people can be happy. But it's harder to be happy when your stomach is empty. By poor, of course, I mean the truly poor. Not the people who think they are poor because they had to stick to their iPad 1 and couldn't purchase the new iPad mini because they spent too much on that holiday in Japan last month. :bsmilie:
On a lighter note, why do people want to work in Shenton Way? I just want to know people in Shenton Way so that there's a slight chance that I can borrow their office to shoot views of Singapore. :bsmilie: