The way it used to be?

a month ago, i was just talking how O's were in 11 days, and freedom was in about a months' plus. And look how time has passed, how a month has just flew by, and here i am talking to you that O's are ending in just 2days.
Of course it was not an easy month. Days of worrying and stress and frustration from those other students who show off getting full marks in this and that. But then again, who are we to compare ourselves to them when we ourselves do not help ourselves and have some confidence. Confidence. Something most of us think we have but most of the time end up wrong. We lack that. However, some may have too much of it. Hah, its funny how this world works really.

This society we live in, makes me question life. Sungkyunkwan Scandal was one drama i was watching through the mid-break of Os. (hehe, hey we need a break too...then again i watched Flower Boy next door too..HAHA. and currently in the midst of watching The Greatest Love). But from all these 3 dramas, we learn something. Let me tell you something about Korean Dramas. They have one main specific target audience known as the female population. As we watch these, all those lovey dovey scenes of the main guy hero risking everything at all costs just to sweep the heroine off her feet, make our hearts flutter, raising our expectations of our future partners 1000000000x more higher.

But why do we watch these? Simple. To satisfy our desperate unrealistic fantasies of having a Prince Charming like that. It is only by watching these things that we get to experience this dire need, this selfish expectations that we have given ourselves and also the male population of upholding this bar, has make this whole society constantly demanding things that will only have a one in a million chance of happening.

Courtship, dating, whatever you may want to call it,
 is one tricky stage in a relationship don't you think? It's like that "stage" where you have to pass and its all clear and smooth sailing from then on. Kind of. That is what people think. No, please get that out of your heads. It is not a game. Dating is where a whole new world starts, the beginning of either something much greater, or on the other hand, the beginning of war. A simple behaviour like laughing when you fell down, will grow into something like leaving you in the lurch when you're at your worst in the future. Habits die hard. But over the rainbow, you see those- he picks you up when you have fallen, and this habit will just grow to something like staying by your side and supporting you through your hardest times.

Marriage.
Don't take it lightly. As the words at the alter echo, "stand beside you through thick and thin, through good and bad, through joy and sorrow." Why do people say these if they don't keep to it?
Formality they may say. But why don't people take these seriously? I just don't understand. Greed. Hatred. Pride. I'm scared of this world. Scared that I won't be strong enough for whatever that may be thrown at me. Scared that i may fall into the same pit that she has fallen. Scared that i won't have the strength to get up on my own, out of that pit. Scared to fall again, to be hurt again. But what can we do? Carry on living that is.

The future holds a series of wonders, a series of darkeness. There won't be best of both worlds, you'd just better give and take, and make-do with what you have, and appreciate the little things. Taking things for granted aye? It won't last. When that thing is gone, you won't get it back, ever. So hold on tight my friend, hold on tight, or you may regret it and suffer the consequences later.

Poverty.
Why do people steal? Why do people cheat? Why do people lie? Desperation.
We may detests robbers, cheaters and liars. But then again what is their story? What if we were put into their shoes? I've come to realise that the third world countries are being forced into the corner, where they have no choice but to work in those poor conditions that they are given, paid peanuts, but yet expected to abide by the laws and rules? How are they going to feed their families? themselves? With those peanuts they are being paid, they are forced to steal, forced to cheat, forced to lie. Yes they can try breaking out of that poverty cycle and helping themselves by working hard, working hard to earn their own living.
But without the support of anyone, without the courage, and in that kind of environment and in this society, it is nearly impossible. Hence, those born with a silver spoon in your mouth, don't take everything for granted. Don't just spend wastefully, for you are given a chance to make a difference, a chance to do something to change this. The riches have become selfish, and the poor has become selfless. Shouldn't it be the reverse?
But what can we do. This cycle where we have to upkeep ourselves, our image, to have supporters and fans, to make ourselves feel better, to build our name to fame, we need money. All the values are all linked one way or another, with the dirtiest thing on this earth. Greed and money.
But i'm not saying all robbers cheaters and liars are good people. Some are just plain lazy and have a rubbish attitude on life. So they deserve it. I'm just saying, before judging, give people a chance. But others who are willing to work hard but are not given the opportunity.
Then again, the good and the bad are distinguish-ably hard to separate because of facades built up over time, to survive in this cruel world.

This world. This society. How?


I am lucky to be born into a family that is able to support me to live comfortably, with only the worries of scoring well in exams and competitions. What about others?
So live each day like it is your last. Don't look down on others, for that could be you too. We don't know what will happen after we die. What if you end up in a horrible place?

Be thankful. I am, but i hope for everyone to find that strength to help ourselves to stand up after we have fallen, find that courage to hold on to what we believe in, find that wisdom to choose the right from wrong, find that idea that will change this world to be a better one.

To the last 2 days of O's, i wish everyone the best. and to those who have finished today, well...haha well on you!

Anyeong!

The way it used to be, when life was simple, and the only apples we had to care were the ones growing on trees, and the only blackberries were the poisonous ones in the bushes found in the nearby forests and when the only form of communication was letters and telegrams and smoke calls. I can't say i hate the globalisation and industrialisation that has happened throughout the century. But what if we were living like the past? What if.