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We are Afraid of Uncertainties

Imagine you are alone in an abandoned house. Just imagine it, don't ask me how did you end up there -.- you realized that all your clothes are dirty as h*ll and you are starving. Somehow time feels so slow there, it's so dark. You feel the breeze of the wind but it doesn't seem to have any window near where you stand now. Strange as it may sound. You didn't find anything there but a big, empty, dark room in front of your very eye. The wind suddenly started to feel cold and colder each second, there was no other choice but to pass through that only door.      There is a quote which I forgot who and where did I read that saying,  nothing is certain except the uncertainty itself.      A dark room is something that most of us are afraid of. It's because our perception that we dislike uncertainty . From the day we were born, we have been taught that there are ghosts living with us, crimes that cannot be seen using our not-so-used-to-crime-investigation eye, aliens living

Paradox of Reading

Now some of you may know what a paradox is. To equate our understanding, let me rephrase it. Paradox is a contradictory statement between the words while still makes sense to the meaning as a whole. A commonly used paradox for example is "less is more". Less and more is a completely different word and meaning where less means a lesser amount or quantity, contradicting more which means a greater or additional amount. An easy way to understand this sentence is, for example, when you procrastinate less, you will have more free time, thus resulting in more time for working. Something like that. Next is reading, which I don't think I need to rephrase it.      Enough of the introduction, now onto the main topic. We all, or at least some of us, agree that reading is one of the most entertaining activity to do in our free or full time. Whether you are reading fiction books, research-based books, journals, or blogs and websites like this depending on your purpose. To broaden your