People are graduating with Ph.D.s, getting nothing in return.

Either jobless, or landing a postdoc, they seem lost. No one is getting a descent, proper job with their degrees.

Wow.

It’s getting scary. The best years of their lives are gone, for nothing. Almost none has been able to pursue a career with that degree.

I don’t understand the type of the dream they live in. Did they not see this coming?

Yesterday is history,

tomorrow is mystery,

and today, is a gift.

Kung Fu Panda.

The loser, takes nothing.

Old habits, die hard.

Today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapper.

Repeated abuse leads to learned helplessness.

A foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.

A wise man grows it beneath his feet.

An old proverb.

“Torturing and or killing pet animals is an early indicator of an expression of inner hostility. Such an individual, as they grow older, will then extend that very same hostility towards not just animals, but to people around them.”

“It indicates that as an adult, he’s gonna get pleasure out of hurting people, and that basically gives him a sense of power, out of deliberately causing them pain, and making them suffer.”

Tough Nuts, Australian Crime Stories, season 2.

“You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland, or Newcastle like Ridley or Jamie Bell, or the suburbs of anywhere, you know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imagining[s]. And for anybody who’s on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it’s possible. Thanks very much.”

Russell Crowe, Oscar Awards.

Just by looking at Canada’s news, it worries me.

I don’t understand, the urge in people to let things go. I highly doubt that in 10 years, there will be such a thing as “why don’t you move to Canada? It’s a good place to live”.

It scares me that Canadians are indifferent to the streams of changes around them. It’s slow, but gradual.

What are people exactly proud of? Low wages? Traffic? Crime rate? Wild fires? Passive aggressive pressurized behavior?