What do you value in this world?
Hi. Do you find yourself lost sometimes?
I do, very often.
My name is Watcharawut Masawat.
“Neo” is what they usually call me.
I fly spacecrafts in Japan (literally yeah) and phoning to cats 🐈🐈🐈 back in my hometown, Thailand.
I am also building a cocoa farm in Thailand with my friends as a CTO(?).
I have these thoughts orbiting me (space nerd alert⚠️) that I am not enough, I can be more than this, I can explore the world out there. Thanks to the internet and ChatGPT I don’t have to get out of the room that much.
But what do I really want to do?
Everything.
I found myself learning about everything that evolves around how this world functions. What Rey Dalio said in his book was an eye-opener:
The world is a massive system with different operating machines. One is the economic machine, and we are the small components in it.
All different components can’t work without others as a single, unified system. Inarguably, an old, rusty screw shortens the engine’s lifespan, while the engine doesn’t start without a spark plug.
The orbiting thoughts ask me “Which component do I want to be in this machine?“
Many wants to be a giant pulley.
Many wants to be the spark plug (electric cars users don’t know this.)
Many wants to be a battery.
The list goes on.
This got me lost, many times, questioning whether I am in the right place or doing the right thing. This gave a feeling of stress and anxiety, leading to a fear of doing anything at all since I am afraid that it will fail and I will waste my time.
“Enough of this! Let’s change the question.” Said me as I mold the thought into a different shape, new question:
What do I value in this world
This reframing feels harder and more abstract. But a person’s identity should revolve around what they value instead of what they believe or want.
In this way, what I do to achieve what I value can always be challenged, changed, and adapted without a direct harm to my identity.
I value survivability of human race, Let see where this brings me to.
