Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct (logical form) but semantically nonsensical. The term was originally used in his 1955 thesis "Logical Structures of Linguistic Theory". Although the sentence is grammatically correct, no obvious understandable meaning can be derived from it, and thus it demonstrates the distinction between syntax and semantics. As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models.
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So by now I am sure many of us have heard of this concept which Chomsky came up with. I was sitting alone in my room that night and started thinking about this to myself. The world moves in a very illogical manner these days that nothing else makes much sense. We, the human race, have made things so complex that even the simplest things can prove to be quite a challenge to overcome.

The discussion I had with a friend prior to that was this - normal kids, wearing the same school uniform, 12 years later, look where we are with our lives and what we have become. The paths we took are now all so different, and so diverse, you wonder how at that point in time you became friends in the first place.

To demonstrate Chomsky's point in this, one man, ahead of the paper chase game, had everything in his life working for him, right now he is falling to the back of the pack, and struggling to make ends meet. This just don't make sense to me when logically the fact is, he has followed the very path the system has placed for society. How can someone fall behind when logically speaking, he should be the first person to be standing ahead of the pack and leading the charge?

The only logical explanation I came up with is that emotions and environment played a very strong role in making us what and who we are today. If we disregard our emotions, we would always forge ahead because we know we won't disappoint anyone in that process, thinking of no one else but ourselves - selfishness. And if we were to disregard our environment, not caring what society thinks of us, then no one would stumble in the fear of being judged.

No, I'm not saying that both emotions and environment are evil, I'm just saying that people are letting the negatives and the chance for an easy way out get in the way of them reaching the logical utopia. Many become successful because of love. A number of them also stumble because they are scared of losing love. Some stay in the "perfect" environment because they think they have reached the best stage in their lives, when they fail to realise that it is all simply a myopic view of what life is all about.

We will never know where we are headed to in life. We will also never know what is our calling until it is being presented in front of us. My point now is this. Always know that there is definitely more to life than what you are experiencing. Go out there and explore. Look around you and realise. Listen to the things people tell you and recognize. Know the right people to keep in your life and be aware of the wrong ones to cut out. Do also know the moment in life when you call time to the things that you want to achieve, and don't let myopia get the better of you. Don't be a statistic in an illogical equation.