Living inside airport for 18 years - Sir Alfred's story

 

Beginning in the late 1980s, a man who went by the name “Sir Alfred” lived on a red bench inside a pre-departures terminal of Charles de Gaulle international airport in Paris for eighteen years. To this day, no one is sure why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfXd1YlkS4

Signs that You are living in a Digital world

I know we are living in a digital age, we have arrived at the digital world. But, this serve to remind us how things used to be different, our formal priorities, our formal relationships, mean so much more than the swallow meaningful digital world could bring us.

Sign # 1 You care more about the appearance and tidiness of your blog than your house
You spend more time and resources tidying and sorting on your blog and you actually could tolerate the house to be messy or untidy. You would let the recycle materials pile up in your garage where all passer-by could see. But, you would meticulously tidy and sort out the blog main page and items display in the layout design. You will spend time to download fantastic Java Script to have fanciful icons on your main page to make it look attractive and professional, even though your blog is simply personal and not for marketing or have any commercial value ! 

Sign # 2 You spend more time on facebook, twitter, whatsapp and social media than any other hobby  
Everything that is good must be reposted, twitted, mentioned in your facebook wall or twitter page. Sharing is caring. In fact, you probably spend more time in social media updating than all your other hobbies combined !

Sign # 3 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is knocking at your door and you deny it
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It's also possible to have only obsessions or only compulsions and still have OCD.

With OCD, you may or may not realize that your obsessions aren't reasonable, and you may try to ignore them or stop them. But that only increases your distress and anxiety. Ultimately, you feel driven to perform compulsive acts in an effort to ease your stressful feelings.

OCD often centers around themes, so in this case, it is the fear of not having your social media updated or that the world is left behind of your latest endevour. So to ease your fears, you may compulsively check and recheck your social media (Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Watsapp) page a hundred times until it affected your performance in other works and chores. 

Despite efforts to ignore or get rid of bothersome thoughts, the thoughts or urges keep coming back. This leads to more ritualistic behavior — and a vicious cycle that's characteristic of OCD.

Sign # 4 You would hold up shower and toilet break, just to write a blog post or facebook status update
This is true of today's netizens, social bloggers and alike, we have more important things to do than to visit the toilet. Everyone is trying to leave a mark in the digital world which we live under the illusion that it will outlive us and its permanent and forever. But we have seen many blogs shut down or top Apps just closed down overnight. Most times, they will give you an option to migrate over to another platform before the shut down. But so much  has been blogged about in internet, I do not think its even possible to copy them down for our own records or reading.

Sign # 5 You take Selfie at weird moments (regardless you post or not)
Selfie kings and queens and we take them because we like them, whether we post or not, that is our business. From selfie, we have divert to Eye-fie (taking the eyes part only), Wefie (just us), and many more. 

The King's New Palace

One upon a time, there lived a king in his Palace.
One day, he noticed that the Palace was needing repairs.
He thought to himself, "I have been staying here since my birth and it had not been renovated properly since then ! Do I not deserve a new Palace ?"
That was not a question posted by the King.
That was a decree ordered by the King.
For all his life, whatever he thought to be shall come to be.
Whatever that the King felt he need shall his needs be met.

He decided to go on a long holiday.
He passed the adminsitration works to his dear Prime Minister
together with these instructions:
"Go and build me the King a new Palace in my absence as well as run my kingdom for me !
As for the Treasury, you can have it at your disposal !"

With that, the King left the kingdom for a good two full years !
In his absence, the Prime Minsiter was baffled with lots of problems
to resolve people's disputes and hungry poor people.
There were just one too many !
He felt so helpless and did not feel right to call on the people to build the Palace.
So, the Prime Minister took money out of the Treasury to help the poor.
In no time, the Treasury had been emptied !

One day, the King returned.
He could not believe his ears!
He could not believe his eyes!
For he saw no new Palace however hard he went to look for it~
For he heard that the Treasury was finished !

The King was furious ! He threw the Prime Minister into the jail and was planning how to punish him.
Just a week before that, the King's brother met with an accident while hunting and he went to heaven and he was being shown around the heavens. He saw from afar, a huge new beautiful Palace. The King's brother asked whose Palace was that!

The angel answered,"That one is being built for your brother the King, for all the Treasury money was given to the poor. Everytime, the Prime Minsiter gave money to the poor, a diamond tile will be put up."

The King's brother sobbed uncontrollably until the angel asked him what was wrong. "Oh, you must grant me one wish, to return in a dream to warn my brother not to harm the Prime Minister. He owes it to him for this future investment awaiting the King in heaven!"

And so, the King's brother wish was granted to him and he went in a dream to warn with the brother. The King repented and released the Prime Minister, together they stayed in the old Palace, helping the people and the poor to live. Since that day, the King gave a decree not to build another Palace and the people would come in to volunteer their work to repair the Palace. In that kingdom, the King and his subjectes lived happily ever after!

 What we treasure on earth will rod away,
what we treasure above is here to stay!


We must build for our kingdom in heaven and not on earth !

Narrated by Ps Dr Paul Ang and re-written by Doria Tai