Sunday, December 4, 2011

Case Study: Ritchie's FB

4 December, Ritchie's birthday.
He's my college friend.
'Happy Birthday' to him,
he can't receive my wish here though,
even on Facebook, where he's 'supposed' to be on.
His birthday pops up in my mind,
and wondering why there's none of a single birthday wish shown dedicated to him.
After checking, I only realise that his FB account is not existing anymore.

In our AEM3 page, I wrote there as follow:
'Ermns... he disappeared, without a trace, for various uncertain reasons. Anyhow, 'Happy Birthday'to him' - Lewis Ng (Lewis as my new English name)

As the above statement, there are various uncertain reasons for him to absent himself.
And I'm here blogging for the sake of studying those possible reasons behind of his act.

His FB account is closed down. Why and what's the notion.
The first major reason that appears in my mind is that Ritchie is controlling himself from being addicted to FB.
As long as we have the FB, there'd have some kind of strength pulling us to surf on it and spending (or wasting, more precisely) hours on it.
That's why the best remedy is to completely chop off the source of addiction - FB account!

As I know, Ritchie tends to be this kind of human species
who might have certain self-conditions loaded to himself.
He has his own thought, his thought can be hard to himself sometimes.
In other words, Ritchie has his own clear vision
and he can be determined enough to achieve the vision.
To be able to achieve it more easily, entertainment which can be the so-called 'obstacles' in his mind must be eradicated.
This can be true and real case from my observation and my knowledge on him during our studies in college, the style of his behaviour in pursuing his studies, the way he acted as the team leader in leading his team, the manner he adopted in accomplishing their team assignments and projects.

Strong determination is one of the positive characteristics I can found on him.
Indeed, amongst all my classmates, Ritchie is the one I can give much credit on his efforts putting on his school tasks.
Although he is neither the best performer, nor the 2nd-best performer,
nor nor the 3rd-best performer on academic record(my goodness, am I too over?),
yet I 'respect' his attitude.
He's the most participative in the class  right after me (hahax wtf! it's true to a certain degree, sometimes -^o^-)
I can feel his pushfulness, he is pushful
He wanna be (or trying his best to be) the best, the most outstanding one.

I conjecture/ speculate that Ritchie himself has decided to close down his FB account based on the reason that FB can be a worthless entertainment, which in turn consuming his much time on resultless activities including chit-chat with friends, videos and songs, comments, games etc.
He has something more important to pursue, to achieve in his life
He is clear of his vision, determined and willing to sacrifice entertainment moments.
These are all of my own speculations of why his FB account is closed down based on the study of his temperament and character.
-Subject to Change-

He's much different from most of my other classmates, including myself.
I'm another species.
An almost-near-to-perfect species, who pursing a balanced life in the aspects of Ying & Yang ,yeah =P



p/s: Another friend of mine CCH also grumbled to me before that he's willing to sacrifice his entertainment in order to focus on achieving his life goal or life position where he is able to earn much money. Money is a live index of success to him. He is eager for proving himself to his family members, friends and even the whole society that 'HE CAN DO IT!'. From the perspective of pyramid needs, he is on the way of seeking and satisfying the ego need or the top self-actualisation need. Honestly, it can be quite dangerous to him as we're just new to the society, and his inner lust/desire floods so aggressively. Many might take years and years to be able to position themselves in a better place in the society. Other than that, one might not even be able to achieve what he desires forever IF HE DOES NOT KNOW OF HOW TO CONTENT WITH WHAT HE HAS. Egregious desire can lead one to the abyss of sorrow. Just be careful, to all my friends and myself.

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