And so...

I have begun on a personal quest to discover about my financial future and what lies ahead. As an initial step, I am trying to read both widely and in-depth about this big thing "finance". There is often this strange phenomenon about knowledge. That is, the more I read, the more I do not know, i.e. came to realize that that there is an increasing amount of known unknowns.

But I am not ready to back away from this overwhelming amount of knowledge from this whole new world which I have just stumbled upon, and its potential. It would be too great of a loss. I know it is just not me to compromise with taking the "easy way" of succumbing to society's influence and just following the conventional way of working in life. I am not willing to just "take it as that" and live my life aimlessly. Along the way, there are always be people whom I call "discouragers" who will say things like "you don't have enough capital to do this", "oh, this is risky", "I prefer to work for a big company". To them, I prefer to respect their opinions and leave them alone. To me, it is always better to maintain and not sour relationships with your friends.

There is always this quote from one of Donald Trump's book which I like very much, and it keeps me going when I thought of taking things the easy way:

"If you are going to be thinking anyway, why not think big?"

And so, I have decided to press on, to continually increase my financial literacy, knowledge. To increase my content (knowledge) alone would not suffice. In addition, I would also need to continually expand my context.