Wednesday, August 15, 2007
4:52 PM
Have anyone ever wondered why they are doing what they are doing now? Have anyone ever wondered what would become of them if they had done something else instead?
Well take studies for example, have u ever wondered why u study so hard? To obtain good grades to go to good universities and then find a good job? Is that what u guys really want? So what happens after u find yourself a great job? get married and have kids and then? Well, let me answer it for u all, and then we just DIE! =) Life is short, so why do the things we do not enjoy? Well, i'm not saying that trying our best to get into good universities is not good cause studies and experiences have proven that they provide a "better future"( who am i to argue that studying is stupid when i am doing it myself and when i have seen real life example of success? ) But the thing is, the better future that everyone claims is actually in monetary terms, in material terms. They often equate money to happiness as if money can buy us happiness. Our future is determined by our ability to earn money, to get rich, to enjoy the material wealth we can have. But where does the emotional feelings come about? If we can really slow down abit to think about it, have we really earned ourself a good future? or did we simply exchanged it for something that can never be refunded? Think about the times we spend preparing for exams, what did we forsake and what did we introduce to ourselves. Think about the times when we enjoy times with our family members and friends, or is there any? The opportunity cost for our self-proclaim " good future" is actually an exchange we did using our teenage happiness and the compensation for a thing we called stress. We introduce stress to ourselves, often stressing ourselves out during the preparation for examinations. And guess what, i've learnt in econs that such things can never be measured by monetary terms. So what? We are still exchanging them for monetary benefits - A BRIGHT FUTURE.
well the fact is we only get to live once, enjoy it while we can and do what we deem fit. But having said so doesn't really mean we shld give up on studies and go do what we want based on our own desire. what i want to say is that sometimes we shld really slow down in life and get to enjoy the bits and pieces of life instead of spending these few moments to try to squeeze any physics or chemistry info into our brains as i feel that this little bit of time might only affect our grades by a little but these bits and pieces of life actually affects our whole life as a whole. It gives us memories of what we have done in the past, it rekindle thoughts which might brighten up our day after a day of gloomy worklife. Sleep on it guys. ^^
Anyway, today was a short but tiring day. Haven had a good sleep since last week i guess. Mum and dad finally returned from overseas, YAY! no need to wake myself up every morning le. =) So i did some math and chem today but there are more to be finish. Well, heck them. As my dad always says, " Gong ke zhuo de wan de meh?" ( translate into english means that can homework ever be finished? ) So, i guess i can only try to complete more later. Still have G.P. essay that i need to finish b4 i can hand in to miss meera gopal tml. THURSDAY TML, sian man.
Besides that, talked to kh awhile today. It just left me thinking...
Bye all!
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart.
What it meant to me, will eventually, be a memory of a time when I tried so hard...
sun set or sun rise;
up to us to decide
