Are we all lost?

Lesson learnt: Never give away a gal’s handphone number without her consent, or else risk the onslaught of her fury.

Someone from DHS and VJ called me up and arranged for an appointment regarding financial planning, even thought I insisted I am really nonchalant about finance and economics and whatsoever. I guess she just found that out after the interview, and I think I am really too tired to think carefully and made the blatant mistake of giving her my friend’s contact. (Both of them were in the same CO for 6years?)

But the conversation with her really set my mind fizzing for a while. Sometimes I really wonder what went wrong with our education (or society to a certain extent). What seems front most on almost everyone student’s mind, is to get a good degree so that it could secure a good job in the future. Most of all, I could never figure if their mind feeds and thrives on this issue of “bread and butter” or vice versa.

You could say I am idealistic or subjective to a certain extent, but I think everyone deserves to at least, enjoy their education and actually learn, instead of living the span of one brainless exam after another. Grades and certificates are always a mis-measure of the actual knowledge we internalize and gain. Imagination, not reason, is that first neuronal link our mind creates and builds upon.

Subjectively, it could be somewhat of the ideal purpose of education and I am aware that living to ideals is never possible. What I think most people fail to see, is that with commitment and discipline, dreams are not always left to dry up.

I am glad that I have rediscovered that passion to learn once more, to reclaim that once lost isle in the sea of thoughts. I guess this is the only way I can be live truthfully.

Beautiful poem i came across on a book cover......

She Tells Her Love
Robert Graves

She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.