One Friday morning, after two examinable chapters revised, three cups of coffee groaning in my tummy (refillable at Mcdonald), I got foretold by my stomach, on the fifth floor to my house at sixth, that I got a severe psychological need. So hungry was I to plumage Maslow pyramid of needs to the base, to rummage my house till the last bread crumb I could gather. Forget about Nirvana, since I am no Buddha, I am just a typical, one out of 6.5 billion Homo Sapiens who need to eat to think. Trust me, gastric pain is no joke, my out-of-cabinet flurry friend can validate this. Taking pity on me, he sprung down from the ceiling-high cabinet to my study table with two canisters of Mister Potato Rice Crisp, a tremendous feat of courage (considering his size!) that is no potato chip
One bite didn’t satisfy my protesting stomach, but it brought down tears to my cheeks. My fluffy cuddle-able friend comforted me by imitation, and it became a crying-makan sessions all together. Sharing good things and answer to the people in need, he masters the skill of empathy – thinking from the shoes of others. In this case, he is thinking about my Adidas.
As I place a stack of chips on post-it notes, I found something phenomenal and enlightening but not quite. The uniqueness of these chips can only be explained by quantum physics, sameness (shape, size and colour) and repetitions (slight wedge on the middle, seasoning) make them all appear alike. To prove my point, an experiment was conducted. On my study table, five samples, randomly selected from the two cans (Original and Sour Cream & Onion) were separated and placed on five post-it notes.
While it didn’t look special because it doesn’t, by applying the same pressure at the same velocity, my Itouch broke these crispy rice chips into many different fragments, breaking them into little crumbs. Obviously, I put on my goggle for any experiments I did.
This is a perfect demonstration of what I called irrelevant coherence. Without impact, they appear utterly consistent, with sufficient impact, discrepancies and differences emerged. Similarly, societies, families and friends are like thin rice crisp, they become disengaged when an issue kicks in. The issue, ranging from racial, religion, gender, language and sexual differences to a microscopic problem like ‘how dare you buy Original flavour?’ or ‘I told you Barbecue taste better than any other flavour,’ if handled improper, they could break into many different factions.
Though it is uncontrollable for fragmentalization to occur, since people are culturally diverse in nature on acquiring perspectives, preferences and tastes, it is controllable for one fragment to acquire an ‘within the post-it notes’ outlook to embrace other fragments, the integrative whole as what Gestalt psychology suggest, the ‘putting oneself in other people shoes’ my Hamtaro had exemplified.
Another way to avoid being radicalized and isolated from the interrelated world is to travel abroad to learn other nation cultures, read books and videos out of your own favorite genres, or simply acquire new tastes beyond personal preferences.
Well done, I patted Hamtaro on the back, making it bounce back and forth while I did my desperately needed cardios to cut away the carbos I consumed. Unfortunately, I seem to overeat too much. Fortunately, I am no longer depress like a hungry cookie-monster, so...
...There’s no need to act like a madman because there is Mister Rice Crisps for you to munch on, anytime, anywhere.
...There’s no need to act like a madman because there is Mister Rice Crisps for you to munch on, anytime, anywhere.
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