I suddenly realized that living in singapore is like swimming in a tropical sea with a foggy goggles. Somehow your goggles become dirty here, and since you can’t appreciate the coral with your eyes, you use other parameter to understand it, like how many fish are in your sea, how big is your coral.
While in some parts of the world, the sea is full of junk, but the goggles are clear. You don’t see much corals and colorful fish, but you swim more happily around. Because you life live not by measuring, by seeing it and knowing that you are immersed in it.