Friday, July 06, 2007
4:27 PM
Complacency
You learn more and more about yourself when u step out of your comfort zone and try out something new. You learn that sometimes, you get complacent and when it gets taken away from you, it shocks you bad. You learn that there are so many of others you can learn from. You learn that the law of attraction does work. You learn that when you you confront your fear and unease, things become so much nicer.
I learnt all that in the space of one week of my summer school programme. It seems a handful, but when you experience it, and you feel u wanna give up, you shouldnt :) I came into dis programme not knowing anyone. And when u arrive, pple have already formed cliques and u dun noe who to go out with for lunches, dinners or outings after class. Feeling lonely in lecture but i guess, when u brave yourself to join groups, you find yourself finding it more fun and more interesting to learn new stuffs and its actualli quite easy to talk 2 pple :) NUS pple are indeed friendly and polite and nice...It was no wonder my uni life was so fun, i had frens to hang out with. Great frens to be exact...and maybe its time for me to make new great frens of different race and cultures.
Meeting with yale and copenhagen students was definitely an eye opener. These are smart individuals who are so well read and well travelled. They have a world view far different than yours. I met this special needs student who viewed life with such a positive fervour. Everything seemed to be so nice so lovely so interesting. Every little thing can make her happy and smile for the whole day. Amazing! And i think her positiveness rubbed off on me :) And others who are so independent have so much experience travelling that they are so enthusiastic in sharing their experiences with you, i feel myself so humbled in the presence of these talented individuals.
Everything happens for a reason...and breaking my arm was one factor leading me to coming for this summer programme. Insya allah i will learn more about myself as the weeks go by. Be positive, stay postive...smile :)
.sincera fazzy.
