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a year on
Last year, on this day, I was probably a wreck. The day before D-Day. Jitters, butterflies, somersaults, my heart was exploding and I had to keep trying to find things to do to distract myself, like teach and plan lessons. That one day changed my life.Something triggered me in school today, when my friend commented 'what are you doing in smu then? why business and accountancy?'
That made me think long and hard, and now I'm sitting in the library, looking out of the window and ironically the first building I see is 'Oxford Hotel', no kidding. Life's cruel ironies. Today I grew. As a person. I've seen how lying really brings you down, and how it's so very important to be true to yourself and to stay true to yourself, regardless of what life throws at you.
If I had any advice I could give myself a year ago, it would have been to:
1. Pursue your dream with all your heart. Go all out for it, don't doubt yourself and don't settle for the second best.
2. Don't sell your soul for the things of this world; it's simply not worth it.
This is what I would advise my juniors, because you should learn from the mistakes made by others and avoid them at all costs. Live life doing what you enjoy because when it comes to the hardest, most painful moments, the passion will stir something in you to keep pressing on.
And with that, I close this chapter and embark on the next, my head held high, no more looking back, no more regrets. I've chosen this path and there's nothing else I can do but suck it up, kick butt and learn to be true to myself.
This will always be a part of me, a scar left in the abyss of my memory, a lesson for others to learn from, and I've moved on.
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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