Originally posted by Ray87:
[b]hey laosu, after reading your post, i was sad but puzzled at the same time. Why do people have to face those unfortunate events in their life? I had my share of problems in secondary school, but most turn out to have positive effects on myself. - Fortunate or unfortunate events are programmed to our life till the end so that we can learn from it. One thing I can tell you for sure is, whether it's good or bad events, ultimately it's how you want the ending to be. You've said that it turn out most to have a positive effect on you is because you want it to turn out positively. Imagine if you met with an unfortunate event and you just let yourself sink deeper into depression, will it inflict a positive effect on you? I guess not.
Why did you choose to isolate yourself from your peers during your secondary school days? Your secondary school experience would have been much more memorable with them, provided that you have handled your friendship well.
In areas of your studies, you have shown that you are capable of doing well in your studies. But why didn't you put enough efforts into your studies before you were demoted to the normal stream? - Sorry, this is a question that till now I still can't offer an explaination. Not that I don't want to. But that's the past and I can't turn back the clock so no point dwelling over it. You might suggest that Im still able to upgrade myself now and Yes I do agree with you but till now I've yet discover anything that I want to study in. Ok, I do have a dream but it's a dream that is far beyond my reach due to family objection.
I do not have the intention to make you feel bad or anything, im writing this because i feel that its really a pity that your life have turned this way. I felt that things could have turned out much better if you had done certain things back then. - Haha, is ok, nothing about my past can make me feel bad now and I believe your good intentions when writing all these. Thinking back now, I have no regrets to my own history. I'm proud of who I am now. I don't deny that things might have turn out much better if I had done certain things back then but then I won't be who I am now. I could probably be another person busy earning money and forgot about feelings altogether. I might be even worse that who I am in the past and become worse due to the harsh reality of the working society. I will never see myself as a loser now even though I might not have achieve much but for the fact that I've survived it, nothing much can put me down now unlike for "some people" who love to call others loser, I pity them.[/b]
I won't deny the fact that I might have a totally different life experience if I learn to handle my friendship well and study well then. But as who I am now, I think back and I don't really regret.
First of all, if I had learn to handle the friendship well then, is that really friendship or again for the sake of studies and blah blah blah? I don't think any of them ever treated me as friend either. Not that I'm still sore about it now but I do admit that I'm sore at that moment and why let myself be make used of?
There's a lot of things in life we could have avoided and lead a more comfortable life. Now I'm already 28, in a way I do appreciate the fact that I've been through all that and survived. Unlike what I won't deny the fact that I might have a totally different life experience if I learn to handle my friendship well and study well then. But as who I am now, I think back and I don't really regret.
First of all, if I had learn to handle the friendship well then, is that really friendship or again for the sake of studies and blah blah blah? I don't think any of them ever treated me as friend either. Not that I'm still sore about it now but I do admit that I'm sore at that moment and why let myself be make used of?
There's a lot of things in life we could have avoided and lead a more comfortable life. Now I'm already 28, in a way I do appreciate the fact that I've been through all that and survived. Unlike what Angelo09 comment about people like us being losers. I don't see it that way. I've been through it and I survive. So what if I'm just an O Level grad? So what if I've isolate myself before? At least I've survived it and learn and from my past experience I'm willing to share the story with others who is going through it and set myself a good example for them to learn to be strong.
I may not earn $3-4K per month but I earn a honest living. With all the feelings that I've deprived myself from last time, I'm full of it now and in my earnest to help people to cope with it and find back the feelings that they lost.