Listless : The Story On Non-Productivity

In this capitalist and prosaic society, ideas and products have been homogenized and replicated countless times. Spanning a multitudinous array of industries, newcomers trying to get a foothold in this era, have failed to even attain breathing space in their respective cutthroat community.

In Singapore, on November 22, 1999, a baby boy was born in a private hospital. At a healthy weight of 3.5kg, though the boy had a slight case of Jaundice, he was discharged from the hospital within a week of treatment. The baby was named Shawn. He was the first third-generation child of the Lin Family. Coupled with the fact that he was a boy, every auntie and uncle came to visit their family. Shawn was from a typical Chinese family. His parents did not have much from the beginning and had worked hard to earn a spot as a middle-income household.

Growing up, Shawn never had much said in terms of what he could do. The biggest priority was to not fall behind on grades and to do that, Shawn was signed up for tuition classes ever since the ripe age of seven. In his free time, his parents chose to sign him up for swimming and taekwondo lessons so as to instill interest in sports in the young child. Unfortunately, it was all for naught as Shawn never truly enjoyed any of these activities.

The only activity Shawn enjoyed and would spend numerous hours grinding it out, would be on his Gameboy Advanced. His favorite game was Pokémon and although he wasn’t the greater Pokémon trainer of his generation, he still wanted to catch them all. With that said, Shawn sadly never completed the game properly before using cheats to help him get past the hard parts. From a young age, Shawn had already started to take shortcuts in his daily life. He was lazy and did not really want to perform in anything. This carried on throughout his entire primary school life and now, entering secondary school, he still enjoys doing nothing.