Thursday, April 05, 2007

On The Road To Life

After graduating from JC, I waited a year before I went to Melbourne Uni. During this year, I enrolled into NUS for one semester. Whenever I told people about this, a variety of opinions surfaced, and some of them gave strong opinions about wasting money, too much money to spare, why spend on something that would not help you earn your degree etc etc etc. Before I enrolled I gave serious thought to such opinions, because it is true to a certain extent. However, now, I have no doubts that I made a correct decision.

Besides making new friends, joining a new community, and gaining knowledge (all these were beautiful), I gained an insight to life. During my stint in NUS, I could learn without stress, but was still under pressure to do well. The consequences were not life-threatening, but I tried my best to study hard so I could get the most out of it.

Shouldn't life be like this? Life, afterall, is not our final destination. Death is. Or rather, the life after death. For those who believe, it is what you do here that determines what sort of life you will have after your death.

So life here on Earth should be like my stint in NUS. It does not matter what grades you get, what splendid achievements you have achieved, but what you get out of it. Life should be thought of as fleeting. Try your best, but don't stress too much over what you should do, and whether you will be happy.

Your effort counts. What you learn from your effort counts. Hopefully, we are all on the correct routes to that same destination.

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