ConsideringSometimes people live in futility, working hard to get by, and yet fail indeed because of various reasons they yet figure out. Sometimes people live in a dream, taking things day by day, and enjoying every single moment. A good dream at least. Sometimes people live like its the end, never doing much, and seemingly losing the motivation to do something.It is pretty much a stressful yet slack semester for me. You inch closer to the start of your working life, and pretty much everything that you have done in your life starts to haunt you. You remember secondary school where you just have to study set subjects and you will get by. You remember JC where you just really study again the set subjects, memorise, and you will get by. And then university comes in, and you realised that it is not enough. The subjects that you study can never get you by. You have to do more, more on your own, and learn more on your own. Nothing in your education which spoonfeeds you prepare you for this. Rising up to this occasion will show your character, your determination to succeed in life, to wake up feeling motivated. This sem can be considered one of my wake up calls in life. I have been living day by day, as each day passes me by, without any real planning whatsoever. People are pulling ahead in the race to succeed each other. Competitiveness is increasing, and it is getting more stressful, as it prepares you for the race that you will face in your life. I have to believe in my own abilities, yet when you see other people have similar abilities and more, you have to step back, rethink about what you want to do, and how you have to move forward. I realised i may not have tried to improve myself for a very long time. Back way in secondary school, i was one of the better students, and i was better than most people. In english writing, i was like a dictionary to many people there, and me and my friends were bitter rivals, always searching for more words to remember and use. And came JC, where suddenly, everybody was like that. Their vocabulrary was similar, and at that point, i should have come to realise that i have to rise and learn more to beat them at their own game. I have to first improve beyond myself. But i didnt, and come University, this suddenly hits me. I have alot of things to learn. And it starts with people skills. And it starts with technological skills. And it starts most of all, with ideas, the confidence to voice out, and give out your own ideas, to appreciate and believe in yourself. Strangely, in my slackest sem ever, it is the most thought provoking, and stressful one. In the era of competitiveness, and cut-throat market, where the weakest dies, i have to work to ensure that i am not the weakest, and strive to be the strongest. This is something that i have to drill into my mind, and prepare myself for the real world. Justin ranted at 12:28:00 am on the |