The City That Never Sleeps
|
posted : September 21, 2007
So many things running through my mind these days apart from the mundane drag of life-school. But, it’s a different kind of experience varsity life brings. You will still be making totally new friends on your last day of school. That kind of thing. Comparison to the past, you more or less know everybody in school or if not there are all familiar faces you would smile to when you graduate. But here, everybody is from so different backgrounds. You see, meet, walk past, share the same lift, with totally different people each and every day. Some may say it’s hard to belong to NUS. Or any university for that matter. But I say it’s possible. I mean maybe in college in might have been easier but university brings about other kinds of adventures, if you can call it. So I guess, the next 4 years with about half a sem passing by, is ours to make for it may be the very last time we belong somewhere. Cause thereafter, you can hardly call anything even your own. So enjoy the last few chapters of the official journey in the path of education. On another note, I’ve placed expectations on myself to complete this 4 years well. At least to my potential. I’ve decided on just sticking with what was given. I’m not switching or dropping out of it, for it’s a good chance I got to pass it up. It may be just an engineering degree but it could be a gateway to say, a startup business venture or joint partnership with a top leading firm in the states. All it takes is making use of the opportunity right in front of you now. And that’s exactly what I’m planning to do. I’m not giving up the race I started. I will finish it. In fact, I will run it well. And the line “the right people were there at the right time and that’s why you are still alive, right here with us” did ring a bell deep down within me. I mean suicide has definitely crossed my minds many a times over the years from adolescence to adulthood. But never has it hit me like it did seeing how she, Tina Zahn, literally escaped death by less than a second. It’s amazing to think how lucky she was to be saved from plunging 200 feet below to death. The feeling that goes through a husband each second they are together, that if not for that moment I would be raising our 2 daughters single handedly. The feeling to escape death or to see a loved one go through that is really hard to picture. But it was a learning lesson for all the people who feel all alone, helpless and as if they are stuck in life without any purpose to live it, but just to go through the motion. And all just over the past month, I’ve come to know of 2 deaths. Both of which has different reasons. But many think of death as a very distant emotion till it hits them. I mean natural death compared to suicidal. It is hard to accept a death due to suicide. For it would hit at the most unexpected moment. And then it makes you wonder, why the person did it, what he lacked during his presence around that made him do it, what we the flaws we created in his life and so on. But to me, its more of the person would just attempt at take his life if he’s meant to end in that way. Sometimes no amount of love or money can prevent that from happening, for it can never be enough. But I say treasure the life you have. You may think that your life just sucks and that nothing good ever happens when you see a blind guy who trips over a stone and falls flat or you see a guy with deficiency in height who will always be looking down upon in his life. Yet, he stands up tall, confident to face life and I ask what’s stopping you from standing up tall. It’s all in the heart. God made each of us such that we are exactly the way we are, in that skin colour, that colour eyes, that height maybe not weight but you get the idea.. for a reason just so that you are that and that no one can take that away from you. The thoughts and everything that belong to you is yours to keep. The life you lead is yours to carve out and polish such that its shines with such exuberance. Make it a good artwork for not only yourself to enjoy but others to admire and maybe even envy. |
look at the stars, look how they shine for you.
Any usable chat widget goes in here.