the best thing in life is FREE

Well, i have been wanting to share with you why I name this blog gratist. this name was actually inspired by the nickname my friends in the Caraka Muda 5 Batch gave for me: Marxis Gratisan or malxis glatisan for some persons .
It is quite not clear how this bunch of rather uncommon people start associating me with marxism. i do like marxism as a opposition ideology to the existing world, but certainly i am not a marxist… i think marx idea was not as original as people think it was or as the capitalist production of his books presents it (would Marx think like that??!). well i write about this at a later time.
Well still related to that, this group of friends associated marxism with freebies. they know i am a zealous fan of freebies but who is not?! i think they are just too shy to confess it if not being hypocrite hehehe.. i mean: come on if you can get something good at no price why would you pay .
along the way, my thought on freebies-ism has evolved as i remember a line from a song by the beatles “the best thing in life is free … but you can tell me ’bout the birds and bees.”; i could say there could be some truth in that song that we, the human race, have chosen to reject the one best free thing and dolores of the Cranberries knows this: SALVATION.
well for me, from my point of faith, my goodness, dolores you are completely right… yeah salvation is free only because it was paid for a priceless cost.
so that is why i have chosen this name gratist defined as a person who value freebies and gratis stuffs not by how it was freely distributed but by the sacrifices made for that to be possible.

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