I have been re-reading a few recent notes that I wrote this year and the two recent ones that I wrote. I think I write the note best when I take it slow and explain everything much more in-depth. Then, the story flows much better rather than just bits of information I recently demonstrated. Therefore, from now on, I will try my best to expand my ideas much better on this blog.

You’d probably know the famous statements from Aristotle

What do you think about this statement? Is it true to your soul? Is it what you are looking for?

I have been pondering on this idea for some time now, and I think that we need to look at this statement from a different angle. Rather than taking the words for words, we should focus on the implications behind this statement. If Happiness is the goal, then How? Instead of focusing on the destination, we should focus on the journey.

I personally think that Happiness is a moving target; chasing Happiness is like chasing a beautiful girl that is so out of your reach. Once qualified enough to get her, you both are old, and she’s no longer the prom queen you dreamed of.

I think Happiness is merely a by-product of Usefulness.

This discussion is under the assumption that the kind of Happiness we are looking for is the kind that would last. The particular type that would be our source of life. Sure we can go on holiday, ; wean go drink, we can go shopping, we can buy a Tesla car … These kinds of activities bring a certain kind of joy, but the passive kind in which we are not useful.

Don’t get me wrong. I love to go on holiday or go shopping sometimes. But to be honest, it lasted about 5 minutes after the events, and then no more.

What really makes me happy is when I’m useful. When I create something that others can use. Or even when I create something I can use.

We as the residents of Earth have an average not as much as 100 years to live, we have to face almost the same things and obstacles in life, and yearn for the same things:

• Love
• Respect
• Success

As for me personally, the more I learned about life and love. The more I’m unsure of what I know.

There are times I’m amazed
There are times I’m surprised
There are times I’m simply uninterested
There are times I’m arrogant
There are times I’m excited
There are times I’m loved wholeheartedly

I am all of the things that said above, but we cannot combine all the things above and said that it’s me. There’s nothing on Earth that I think is a certainty.

Lao Tsu has said once: ” Ai ai cũng có điều tin chắc, chỉ có mình tôi thấy tối tăm”

Whether or not we were born for a purpose, is still a question that can never be answered. But I’d like to believe that each of us brings a certain meaning to life.

You have read my notes for a while, and you can see my attitude toward money and death. They mean nothing to me. I’m a pro-Thanos, I think there are too many people on Earth, and I’d like to vanish once Thanos activates his rings.

I think we as humans are not afraid of death but afraid of the uncertainty of death. We will never be sure what time we will be dead, and that makes us jittery. What if we know the time of our death, what if it comes like exam date, something that we don’t like but we know for sure that we must take that test?

Recently, I’ve been playing the game: “Where thoughts go?” on my Occulus Quest ( If you don’t own one, you should get one, it’s quite fun). The game is straightforward, you answer a bunch of questions, and listen to others answer. However, there’s a particular question that I like a lot.

What if we know the time and date of our death, it will be exactly one-year from now, what would we do differently?

If you are reading my notes right now, take some time and think about this question, I think it’s a great one to put your mind into.

I listened to a few answers: one said they would create a three-month-long party, one said they would spend as much as possible, and some said they would spend more time with their loved ones.

I have thought about it for some time now and think I will spend half time here and half-time in Hoi An. Of course, bliss will continue to survive after my departure, and many people depend on me, but I would also like to spend the time in the land that I love just to contemplate life.

This brings me to the concept of Usefulness earlier discussed in this note. If I were ever granted a wish, I would wish for me to be useful till the end of my life. When I’m useful, I create things, and I’m happy.