The Oil prices are souring, as the straight of Hormuz is still choked by Iran since the US attacked on 28th. I am unable to decide who is the bigger IDIOT. Either It is the guy who wants to make weapons of massive destruction or the Guy who wants to destroy them before Even they are made. The guy Who wants to prioritize making nuclear weapons over hunger, Or the guy who is boasting about everything, from busts in the oval office to grass in the garden. But, as it happened to me, and many other happy consumers of 21st century, every price tag is taking a hike, which they have no intension to return. And WE do not like that. Everlasting Oil There is a saying, that if you are not in the bloodline royal family, do not even wish for the crown, inevitably you would be decapitated unless you are willing to do it to the king by your own hands. Every Mutiny will end up with destruction. Maybe some leaders of the world do not know how to keep their mouths shut and act weak and friendly with others while it is benefiting. Maybe they haven't seen how crows fight against a flock of migrating birds , and learned the lesson, Co-operation would position both parties if done correctly, and it is not a weakness, but bravery to go beyond one's inherent selfishness. It seems there are possible 200 candidate presidents in the whole world who chose war against prosperity. But who am I to judge. I am just a happy consumer of global economy. And only thing that matters to me is the crash in markets, panic sellers have created an unpredictable unpleasant chaos in my consumer sphere. Oil doesn't flow from Gulf. Assembly lines are slowing down in China. Everything that was imported for cheap dollars that gained with "Global Credit" is rising. And I am squeezed in the budget line, like ever decaying exponential function into eternal nothingness. And its been barely 3 weeks since this new chaos, after covid. There is a queue for everything, and my car is just on the verge of dying of thirst, like a stranded man in a dessert, looking at every shed with a greedy thirsty eye. I am getting uncomfortable inside my own skin. Having climbed the hierarchal ladder of society in an accelerated phase, I do not want to go back to my old hard working, sweating young self. Rather I would bribe a couple of them to keep my consumption at a maximum level. Is this the way every consumer think?? We have seen the real motor of the economic machine is Oil. The last couple of weeks have shown us just that. With current consumption rate oil and natural gas supply will run out in 50 years. Well, I will be happy to be dead, by that time. I would be the last one smiling on the face of earth when it happens, yet I can see there is a huge dark cloud appearing around the future world. Unfortunately, I happened to create some offspring, who would face the consequences of my own selfish rate of consumption. There is a pretty good chance they have to go back to sweat for their own food, unless we or someone find solution to this energy crisis. Instead of making nuclear weapons, world leaders should act like fathers of daughters and sons of next generation to come, in every summit. They should gather and discuss about climate change, oil crisis, global debt, in finding practical solutions with experts. I am not sure what stupid game they are playing at each gathering commenting each other's shoes and nuclear powers. Happy consumers of the future. Meeting Happy consumers Unfortunately, I am not there to represent my children in places where it matters. But I chose one to go to the Parliament on behalf of me, an stupid idiot of a consumer culture. Who has no eyes to see that the approaching clouds are so dark no matter how much reserve they accumulate would not last too long for their own children in a future fallen world. When all the consumers in the world go savage, everyone will fight with their neighbor for a drop of water, and saints would perish early in this war when all the Satans will be long lived. As a happy consumer, I am willing to sacrifice my comfort for 50 more years, so our children get just enough time to solve the problems they have to face in the future and put my patriotism into a bucket with a hole. Are these idiotic politicians even know about the intensity of that intension?

Is it true? Is life really what happens, while we are making some other plans? Just look at yourself and ask the question, what you interpret what life is? And It appears to me this is one of the best ways to say it, so we never forget. You can be a child, or a teenager, or an adult even elderly person. When we look at life as this one-way journey from birth to death, we tend to focus more on future, than anything else. When you were a child, you dream of becoming a teenager, going to a college, having freedom to drive a car. Maybe even doing a job and making money. Maybe ambitious dreams about future. And while all these day-to-day plannings and weeks to months plannings are executed, you become a teenager. What did you miss? When you are a teenager, you dream of being in university, getting higher education. Meeting new people. If you are already in a career pathway, maybe you are seeking promotion, some romance. Each and every aspect your life, you plan for the progress, financially, emotionally, socially you want to become a better person. And while all these plans are being executed you become an adult. What did you miss during this period? City you live in. By this time, the plans you made in earlier decades of life have taken place. Now, it is time to relax. Is it? maybe just not yet. The Middle Ages produces its own challenges. Some just bounce between teenage dreams and realistic revelations. Some might struggle with relationships, maybe its just neighbors. Sometimes, there are new people, and few old people. And new challenges need new plans. And you keep planning your retirement. But, would you be bothered to ask, wise enough to ask, what would you miss if you keep on doing this for the rest of your life? It clearly doesn't suggest that planning is bad. And you will just lose life if you do this. Planning is great, and only great if you know life still happens even if you plan or not. Life is planning. If you want to live a life, it will never occur in the future, at the time of results of your plan. Life happens during your dreaming, during your planning, and during your execution of the plan. So, it is better to choose your dreams, and plans carefully, as life is what happens during all this time. If you understand this concept, which is just two opposing facts about planning and living, then you might not miss the next decade in life, as it is not in the future but now. Practice Mindfulness! as there is no other way of living.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." This perhaps is the most well-known quote of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famous American author. He is famous for his fiction, The Great Gatsby novel. Above quote appeared in one of his biographical essays, and it seems to capture some essence of life, not only intelligence. The first question I would like to ask is what are the two opposing ideas? And he himself have given the first example. Sandcastle with low entropy. Examples of two opposing ideas. Things are hopeless -> yet there is hope. (Life seems to end at death -> yet there is hope that one would lead a successful life) This seems to be the modern way of thinking about life. I would like to ask are there any more examples to two opposing ideas that we have to live with? How about following list of examples. For an investor ->Higher expected return means more risk. It seems not many people are able to handle these two opposing ideas in a meaningful way to come out unbroken. Hard work/smart work now will pay more in the future -> But there is an opportunity cost as it seems future never seems to be a thing which is Present. To some it may even look like an illusion. To achieve world peace and equality, one has to bring all the humans under one nation, one rule and one mission, but this mission itself seems to be asking for a world war. "Be careful what you wish for" as sacrifices of human life in the name of peace cannot be justified. Then again are we aiming for eternal clash and discrimination? The universe is flowing from lower entropy to higher entropy. Yet, humans by development is trying to force it towards order. Will this ever work? Entropy. Let's focus on the last of the example. If you ask me to summaries the meaning of it, I would say, entropy is the one which makes things hopeless. I am not sure Fitzgerald himself, would coin that term, or agree if he was to read this article. I am sure, he had understood the hopelessness by other names than entropy. Disease, old age and death, wars, poverty can be some indicators to his understanding of hopelessness. But, if you want to point at some background universal force which brings out all this chaos, I will point out to entropy. So, what is entropy anyway? Entropy is a meassure of disorder or chaos, or randomness in a system. If a system is more disordered it has high entropy, and if it has few variability and more predictability it has low entropy. As a rule the universe loves to move from low entropy to high entropy. The best example is a sand castle vs a pile of sand as Mr. Brain Cox explains. The sand castle which has low entropy will eventually will become a pile of sand. It just need time and natural forces as a factor. However, the sand pile will never become a sand castle on its own. Although no natural low stops from just doing that. As the sand pile has many stable forms, but the sand castle does have only one form. This truth apply not only to sand castles, but also real castles as well. Sand dunes with high entropy If you have built anything, you may have noticed this tendency of things to decay. As an example, a perfectly arranged bed linnon would tend to move towards disorder at the end of the day, hence need remaking everyday. So is everything inside a room. Job of a librarian is to make order, after each student make little chaos inside the library by moving things. A house when abandoned will eventually degrade into a pile of rumble. Similarly a city, like chernobyl. Will eventually find its way into a higher entropy system with much more biodiversity. First-rate intelligence I am sure given enough time the even the earth would become dust and sucked into a black hole. So, is there any point all our struggles in everyday, trying to keep order? And this is where the importance of Fitzgerald's little intelligence trick comes handy. Living is not getting hopeless knowing the facts, it's just living hopefully knowing its hopeless.