life

i love life. i cannot understand how anyone can hate life, and worse still, not want to carry on with life. life is so beautiful. and life is so precious. life brings so much joy. life gives us so many experiences. and so much pleasure. who doesnt enjoy a glass of cold water, fresh air when panting, a good joke, sleep, the cool breeze, shooting life rounds... and pain? what is pleasure without pain? and pain brings back many memories, some fond, and some not so fond. pain enhances pleasure, like a rich man is even richer if he has endured poverty before.

cheek told me once outfield, that the saf pays its soldiers very well. upon returning to camp and taking a bath and sleeping on a spring mattress with a roof and fan above your head, you feel like a million bucks. and we laughed at this thought outfield, to get away from the exhaustion and pain. and upon reaching home with a hot shower, your own bed and aircon, u feel even better.

life thus is an experience that everyone should enjoy, even if he hates the current circumstances in which he is in. why do you hate life. i love life at every moment. even if im unhappy. because i have learnt from my experiences that u only treasure life when it is a memory. the cliche phrase the grass is always greener applies to every situation we are in. i only appreciate the situation i am in after i am out of it.

i was always in a hurry to grow up. i still am in a hurry to grow up. i want freedom, i don't like wearing green, i want a cheque book, i want a credit card, i want a job.. but i dont want to grow up so fast either. i look back at the times when life was so carefree, and there wasnt a single thing worth worrying about. why are u in a hurry to grow up? in perspective, all troubles seem so small, yet all the pleasures and good memories remain forever etched in our hearts, and we want to relive them again and again and again. so i have made a decision to not hate life, and deal with the situation i am in as i would want myself to whne looking back in future. hindsight is a very useful friend who is never there till its too late. i cant afford to rely on hindsight to live my life.

love life. i never know what what will happen next. i dont know where lightning will strike, when my car will get hit, when i'll die, or when my friends will perish. i treasure every moment in life, because i can never live it again.