Alam Kekal

Status: Draft 1, very early impression stage.. bordering rambling or perhaps is already one.. :p

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If one's job is not at no. 1, than what is the no. 1?

Well, that is entirely up to you. Some might say that family is no. 1. Or kids. Or wive (wives? :p). Or God. Or religion. Or happiness. Or marriage. It can be anything but it can never be what you do for a living. Your job can never and should never be no. 1.

A bold statement, yes, but with reasons.

The positioning of an object of life at the end of an upward spectrum entails the acceptance that the said object is of the highest. Note that, initially, it is the highest of order. Not necessarily the best or the most ideal. That is logical. For example, imagine a vertical line representing your priorities in life (some may ask, why not horizontal? we'll get to that, later.) If there are 5 objects of life that are of immediate concern for you, than logically each of them must have a unique position in that vertical line. Again, why vertical? The answer: it is human nature to prioritize. You prioritize bathing before you put on your clothes as it is the most logical order. If there is no prioritization there, seemingly to argue that both are just as important, would you then bath and putting on your jeans at the same time? You wouldn't. Why? Because it is not within your capacity to do both at the same time. It will definitely wet the jeans. Therefore, you prioritize. Simply put, it is not feasible (or rather mentally stable) to do both actions simultaneously. Likewise, other objects of life do have their own unique places within your vertical line of actuation. I am arguing that, to say that you consider your job is just as important as your kids would mean that you would be giving the same amount of attention and devotion to both! Have you been doing that? If you have, how do you measure that? Based on the amount of time of 8 hours of accompaniment for each? Clearly it is hard to measure since both of them carry elements that are incompatible with one another. Some will argue that it is not fair to compare the two. If so, are they then placed on a horizontal plane and moving forward together with your determination? How do you prove that? How do you prove (most importantly to yourself) that each and every one of the objects of life is of the same calibre? Wouldn't it be more plausible to accept the fact that one object of life is and will always be higher than the other and so on and so forth? If an actuation of actions towards an object of life is being used to measure prioritization, it is rather apparent that we, as humans, do not have the capacity to actuate all of them all at the same time. Therefore, is it acceptable that the degree of actuation of actions of a certain object of life determines its order in the vertical line?

To be continued..