Sometimes...
I feel...
This world needs a little more hope
This world needs more wishful thinking
This world needs a little more love
This world needs a little more peace
This world yes.. and it's people
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I was surprised today
When one of my friends told me
Back to reality
For something as achievable as
"Getting a scholarship to do my BAR program"
"Getting RM4000 -Rm5000 starting pay cheque"
I mean.. What is there to come back to?
Isn't that part of reality?
If you don't dream
How can you possibly achieve?
By firstly having wishful thoughts
You set out to draft out a target
Having done that
You plan how to achieve that target
After planning, you execute that plan
Upon execution, either you fail or you succeed..
But that's another matter
And no..
I'm not stating as you just talk the walk without walking the talk
If you don't walk the talk
Well, its as good as bullshit
Coming back to this
I start to question
What happened to our human nature?
Our very basic need to succeed?
Where is that instinct that our forefathers once had
That instinct which propels us
Homo Sapiens to top the food chain
How are we being ingrained to loose that instinct?
But if it were so,
How then are there people like Stephen Hawking
How was one, severely disabled by a motor neuron disease
Able to be as successful as he is today?
How is it that Lim Goh Tong
Stood one fine evening on a balcony in Cameron Highland
And envisioned a casino at the top of that hill
Now known to us as Genting Highland?
Sure you say those kind of things are rare
Who am I?
No I'm not saying that I can be as successful as them
(Although it is a nice wishful thought)
I have no intention of being like them
What I want is a comfortable life
Able to put my children through a complete education
Enough to allow my parents to lead a peaceful and quiet life
That's all I ever wanted
How do you know for a fact?
That I will not get a starting salary of RM4000?
How do you know for a fact I won't be able to secure a scholarship for my BAR program?
How do YOU know for a fact?
Heck I might not even take the BAR!
If someone were to offer me a good job with a good pay
WHY should I take the BAR?
Perhaps it is not I
But you who needs to dream a little more
Perhaps it could change your life!
My friend,
Your will to succeed is too low
I have my views and you have yours
Let me work mine out
And I'll tell you how I fare
But even if I should fail
I have no regrets
I would have regret it more should I miss that opportunity
I finally now know what I want to say
Rambles of line fail to defeat what Robert Frost has to say
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Labels: Musings, Ramblings, Randomness
