tornado thoughts

this year this time for the past 4 years

Everytime after exams for the first semester in Uni life, especially if one stays in hostel, there would be the inter-hall games. It really brings back memories when you think of the joy and tears that you shed when you won a game or lost a game. The hall spirit, the friendship is something which money cannot be bought.

However as years passed, from freshie to senior, from senior to supersenior, it's inevitable that you'll be forgotten as the new batch of people come and older batch of people go.
Questions that I ponder at times:
1. Does it ever make you wonder that with all these commitment to hall while sacrificing your grades worth it in the end?
2. What does a gold medal mean if we're only interested in winning but not in getting to know teammates better?
After searching and pondering over these questions for quite some time, I feel that making a positive impact in someone else's life is more important than winning a gold medal. We are born to live in a community and thus friends & love ones are people that we shouldn't neglect.

It's the same analogy when brought to the working world's perspective. Some people are so focused on winning the deal, climbing the corporate ladder that they neglect the friends around them in search of the "better life". It's when their "better life" come tumbling down due to unforeseen circumstances then do they realise that their friends had built better friendships elsewhere. I feel the "better life" is a vicious cycle. You work so hard that make your body exhausted when young. When old, though may be successful, your beaten body may just collapse and end up paying huge medical fees for your body to recuperate.
Is it worth it?
- To have lots of achievement yet "lonely" in some sense
- or to live a fruitful and fulfilling life though may not earn as much as "chao pia" people
Well, we're given the right to choose thus choose wisely after measuring the costs.

posted by tornado @ 8:31 AM