Why this exists at all...

This journal only exists to express my understanding of things, based on personal observations, anecdotes and readings. I believe that, while fighting over cast, wealth, religion, nationality and what not, we avoid delving deeper into how things really work, deliberately or otherwise. The reason is simple - understanding things deeply does not serve any of our immediate agenda. It bothers me, watching ourselves crawl through a maze that we do not understand, and fail to find the right path over and over again. 

This journal is not here to criticize, to offend or to correct any individuals or groups. It is a small attempt at gathering my thoughts, my effort to map out this maze that we call life; with a sliver of hope that someday this will come in handy to start something rather meaningful. 

To be abundantly clear about the content that you are about to read, I have disburdened this journal of political correctness. I refer to stereotypes when it is real. I call out hypocrisy where it exists, even my own. The only thing that I avoid in this compilation is deliberately disrespecting an individual or a group only to prove myself or whatever human subsegment I represent superior. 

My thoughts are not to be taken for well-researched statements based on empirical data. As I have mentioned before, I am only trying to record my epiphanies triggered by my own experiences. Being a Financial Analyst by profession, my livelihood depends on crunching numbers. But in my rather short academic and professional life, I have grown up enough to know that the numbers that are known to us are not able to tell the whole story just yet. In equations, we bridge this gap through an "error term," and in real life through leaps of instinct and imaginations. I am only taking that leap through this journal...

Thank you.