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"stepping out on my own"
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Life's Musings

Today marks the last session of softball... it has been fun although it was rather difficult to learn how to play it properly. Gonna miss some of the PGDEs who were in our class as well - they're a fun bunch, definitely. This is prob the last week we'll be seeing the PGDE students, as well as the Diploma students who were enrolled in the same year as us. All of us started out as freshies and now they're graduating while we're only halfway through our course. I'd rather still be in school, definitely, but there's a bit of melancholy in seeing them leave. There'll be less familiar and friendly faces around. PESS will have new faces who are unfamiliar to us. No more saying hi to people wherever we go. We're now the ones others look at and wonder which group we're from, like we did when we saw the degree year 3 and 4 group. We're almost non-existent.

Dr Teo-Koh mentioned something really poignant today. She told us what her secondary school teacher told her - "When you're 60 and sitting on your rocking chair, and if you're saying to yourself, 'I wish I had done that', then you deserve a kick in the butt. Instead, you should be saying 'I wish I can do that again'." That really struck a chord with me, especially with me thinking about life in general recently. Just pondering about how I want to live my life, and how I should find more meaning in it. I used to be passionate about many things, I used to want to do so many things, but now, I don't. Life is rather mundane for me now. But really, rather than spend my time sitting here and lamenting about what I should do with my life, I really should just go and do what I enjoy, and try and enjoy what I do all this while. Easier said than done, I say.