Sunday, January 15, 2012

Statistics and Hope

I am now fully realized that I do not trust anything unless I experience things myself. I know, this is kinda stubborn, but the truth is, there is NO TRUTH!! For example, this person says I know this place called ____ is the best in the world, and then I asked, have u been to ____? and he/she answered, 'nope, never been there before'. So tell me, honestly, how can I trust that his/her statement is true? This might sounds like a discrimination, but this is from my point of view, so I also realized that there can be no truth because two persons can do the same thing, but can experience it differently. For example, I studied in Sydney and has been to Melbourne before, and I still think Sydney is the best! But some of my friends that studied in Sydney and has been to Melbourne, think that Melbourne is the best! See? If I have not experienced this myself, I might think that Melbourne is the best city in the world til the day I die even though I haven't actually been there. Tricky huh? Well that's why I never trust what people said or what the newspaper wrote or what the statistics told me. Because even if it says 99%, if you are one of the lucky person in the 1% group, this statistic does not apply to you, and hence you can say the statistics is somewhat irrelevant.

Well, the reason I blabbered this much about percentage and statistics, is because I know someone who reads a lot of these knowledgeable (I doubt that now!) articles, and thinks his/her common knowledge is outstanding, and hence he/she has the right to judge other people's personality or mentality or whatever. There will never be two beings that are 100% similar. Someone is calling me. So I'll stop now. Byeee. :)