Thanks

You say grace before meals. All right.
But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes game theory/phylosophy is quite interesting, like how it really reflects us as players. Here are some extracts from a study done (from gamasutra.com, written by By Lorenzo Wang):

Finding #2: People suck at predicting their future enjoyment.
Reason: Humans have very subjective memories great at recalling essential information quickly, but at the expense of retrieving unreliable details. Studies have shown that a person's feelings greatly influenced by both faultily recalled memories, and also their current state (known as presentism).

For example, people asked about how their overall life happiness was tended to respond positively on days their city had good weather, and negatively on days when the weather was bad. People displace their happiness estimates into their
present state.

Finding #4: People tend to experience loss twice intensely as gain.
Reason: Scientists believe we are biologically primed to have greater loss aversion than a desire for gains. Why do we hold on to losing stocks, telling ourselves it's not a loss until you sell it? There are innumerable theories as to why we have evolved this way, but so strong is this factor that we also tend to expect greater rewards for delayed gratification. Would you rather have $50 now, or $60 next year (forget inflation for a moment)?

So very true, in fact, I realize that I do focus on bad things much more often than good things. Not in terms of physical forms, but also in more abstract forms. It's really surprising that some people can actually spot on these ugly things in life and yet still look and appreciate at the their beauty. Yea, and He's the best at doing these kinda things.

You've searched us.
You've waited for us.
You've made the way for us.

Because we've never had enough.
Because we often fail.
Because we take things for granted.

Yet You're still faithful.
Your love surrounds us.
Your grace abounds in us.

So that we can talk to You.
Spend time with You.
Walk the mountains and valleys with You.

I don't wanna live in days
when I miss Your voice,
when I realize that You're all that I'm left with.

Help me live life as it should be lived.
Live a life that counts in Your Kingdom.
Live a life as Your child and Your best friend.

Be joyful always;
pray continually;
give thanks in all circumstances,
for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
[ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ]

Your joy is my strength.

May the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,
so that you may overflow with hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
[Romans 15:13 ]

Hmm now I realized I never blogged about happenings recently, lol. I'll do that if I'm ever in escapist mode again. Zzz.