Memories...coming back...it's all coming back.
As I sit here in my bare room, Josh Groban's baritone voice in the background, my mind starts to wander back...back to a familiar place I used to enjoy - Home. The word 'familiar' is almost like the word 'family'..and speaking of family, my parents are coming over to Singapore soon. I never thought I would actually be homesick, but as I've learned in theory about living abroad, is that there are waves of ups and downs. From the excitement of being in a new country to the self-isolation of culture shock...I'm in a phase where the wave of excitement (well at least from a cultural point of view) has warn off and the fact that my parents are coming, a new wave of nostalgia builts.
I find it quite funny and fascinating: if I have little contact with my friends back in Canada, I don't really miss it that much (because I concentrate on my life here in Singapore) but now that some people significant to my 'old' life are coming, all the memories are coming back...and i feel like I'm being sucked into my old confortable life...which in a sense is a good thing.
No matter how tough a person can be on the outside, he can be strong emotionally and able to take many hardships, but there is a time where he needs to rest. I feel like i've gone through so so so sooo much in the past 7 monthes, both emotionally and physically, I need to rest from all that (yah I haven't had many days off work) and I just want to be pampered and I just want to have someone who can listen to me and take care of me. We're only human. Heheh, the good old days. I'm glad my parents are coming, I do miss them. I miss coming home to an energetic yet calming atmosphere instead of a quiet hollow appartment.
Sounds a bit depressing yes, but I'll happily admit my life is more fun and purposeful than a struggle. I'm doing the right thing, even though at times I think it can go 'faster' but I've learned to appreciate patience and determination when travelling towards my goals.
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On a side note, I wish in School and in AIESEC how to be successful (and motivated) in KEEPING ones job, and learning HOW TO PLAY THE GAME of the world called work. I've had to invest a lot of time to learn how to play this game and how to enjoy it at the same time. NONE of this was ever taught in AIESEC or in SCHOOL...yet students are so consumed in doing well in studying, projects, exams...complaining and complaining about how they have no time. Many give up invaluable opportunities to learn LIFE SKILLS at the cost of spending the weekend studying.
Don't get me wrong, proper education is important, but in life there is a university, a university called REALITY. In this university, many are undergrads, some have stayed longer and have become degree holders, and some have stayed even longer and have recieved masters and PhDs. Once you leave university and enter the university of Reality, there's no dropping out. The university of reality is the toughest university in the whole world. For some, the courses are harder, some easier but all students must learn it's lessons.
I know many are unprepared to enter this university, as I once was, but i know through sharing and teaching, everyone one who enters the university will be able to graduate from it.