We live to question. If one day we stop questioning and accept the status quo, we’d be reduced to mere puppets being living in the increasingly uncontrollable reality dominated by the rich and powerful. You lose grip of yourself and become insane. But…what is insanity?

“I don’t know what it means to be mad,” whispered Veronika. “But I’m not. I’m just a failed suicide.”

“Anyone who lives in their own world is mad. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean poeple who are different from others.”

“Like you?”

“On the other hand,” Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, “you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people – and thousands of others – all lived in their own world.”

- Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho

For my friends out there in the working world, never stop questioning, like what we did in every tutorial. We debated with vigour and passion, getting into heated arguments and fist fights, for the sake of defending our stands and getting our points across.

But at work, it’s a taboo to question. It’s always easier to submit to authority because it’s no longer 10% participation points but the paycheck  to support lavish lifestyles at stake. I believe that’s how many people lose themselves and eventually choose to believe in materialism because it’s become pointless to take a stand.

“I choose to live this life because this is what I truly want. I live to be insane because I know I’m brought to this world for a far greater reason than to merely exist.”

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