on life, for the countless time
looking around at all the high achievers in life in my circle of friends and beyond sometimes makes me ask myself what am i doing with my life? am i doing enough? as i see them tick yet another destination of their personalised lonely planet places to see list, i look at the miserable few countries i've been to in the past 3 years. Australia for studies (and visit gab and an twice), malaysia for short weekend getaways three times, bangkok for holiday twice, taiwan for training thrice and brunei for training twice.
my peers enjoy 2 week long trips in vietnam, or ski trips to france, and other holidays to exotic places in the mediterranean or Americas. i, on the other hand, have not had a good long break for maybe 3 and a half years?
after mugging my ass off in JC, i enlisted into army. after early ORD (sacrificing 21 days of leave and 7 days of off, i can't really remember) i flew immediately to start studying. last holiday didnt really do much, just visit ian and sant and hosted them when they came over. this holiday has been work work work, eat eat eat, and for the past 3 nights drink drink drink, for a reason that i may explain if i feel up to it.
so i ask myself, when am i going to go travel, see the world, and have a good time? it was then i realised, that there are many ways of spending time and seeing the world than by travelling.
i don't want to travel. i want to see my friends. i want to be with them as much as i can. and especially one very important guy in my life, who recently has been there for me. i haven't gone out much with him lately and stuff cos im so busy, but im so going to miss him for a month when im back doing summer sem and he's still stoning here. even though this ass sumin didn't go watch trinations with me.
when we get too caught up with ourselves, we actually lose our sense of responsibility and priority in life. we don't deliver what we are obliged to deliver. we make other people do our work. we don't spend time with people we are supposed to spend time with. we make empty promises. then we lose our friends and loved ones, and then how successful can we be then?
my peers enjoy 2 week long trips in vietnam, or ski trips to france, and other holidays to exotic places in the mediterranean or Americas. i, on the other hand, have not had a good long break for maybe 3 and a half years?
after mugging my ass off in JC, i enlisted into army. after early ORD (sacrificing 21 days of leave and 7 days of off, i can't really remember) i flew immediately to start studying. last holiday didnt really do much, just visit ian and sant and hosted them when they came over. this holiday has been work work work, eat eat eat, and for the past 3 nights drink drink drink, for a reason that i may explain if i feel up to it.
so i ask myself, when am i going to go travel, see the world, and have a good time? it was then i realised, that there are many ways of spending time and seeing the world than by travelling.
i don't want to travel. i want to see my friends. i want to be with them as much as i can. and especially one very important guy in my life, who recently has been there for me. i haven't gone out much with him lately and stuff cos im so busy, but im so going to miss him for a month when im back doing summer sem and he's still stoning here. even though this ass sumin didn't go watch trinations with me.
when we get too caught up with ourselves, we actually lose our sense of responsibility and priority in life. we don't deliver what we are obliged to deliver. we make other people do our work. we don't spend time with people we are supposed to spend time with. we make empty promises. then we lose our friends and loved ones, and then how successful can we be then?
posted by daniel at 16:37
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