Have anyone of you out there experience in life where you had to make a tough choice? I believe everyone does, be it choosing your ice cream flavour at the convenience store or whether to get that black or grey underwear.
NOT.
Of course that's not what i'm talking about here, i'm talking about choices that will change your life.
As we grow older in this merciless society, we are required to make the correct choices that will determine our future. You beg to differ? well here are some of the examples i personally encountered.
In school, we've to make choices already at a tender age of fourteen, known as streaming. We have to choose our subjects that we ultimately has to tackle in the O levels. History, Geography, Principles of Accounts etc etc.
What do most of us, or maybe it's just me do with a immature mind at that time?
And that choice that I made hastily already determines my future.
Let's fast forward time and go to the day I got my results. Apparently I can make it to a Junior College or some called it High School or to a Polytechnic. Before I know it, boom another choice I've to make on my own at sixteen. If I chose to enter a Polytechnic, which subject should I major in? Business, Information Technology, Design blah blah blah and the lists goes on till the cow comes home.
The vast variety of subjects is too damn shocking.
AND YOU EXPECT ME TO CHOOSE WITH SO MANY MIXED INFORMATION ABOUT THESE COURSES?
Sorry for being agitated but let's skip that because eventually I entered a Junior College. And then again I've to choose my subjects in Junior College. Without hesitation, I chose the those that I took in O levels and that is a very grave mistake! My subject's combination is termed as the 'Killer Combination' with all requiring us to write essays that make your hands cringe after every examinations. And to everyone's disappointment, I survived and got a decent result at my A levels but not good enough to enter a local university.
All these experiences made me learn that choices we make, regardless of it's size or severity really do affect us in the future. Maybe momentarily it doesn't but trust me, it will come back to haunt you.
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choices
Sunday, May 13, 2012