Monday, January 21, 2008
{ 3:35 PM }
Every night with my mum, I used to pray for an end to poverty, sickness, pain, suffering that God or some greater power would bring me a miracle to cure this sick world. I still pray for these things, sort of as a formality, almost as if I could take a small part of credit IF one day this rotating sphere were cured again.
From there, I've learnt division between my dreams and ideas from reality. I am a somewhat grounded idealist, wishing for all good things to happen to people everywhere but at the same time knowing my boundaries and limits. Every little bit helps, they say and it is true to a great extent but when will it ever be enough? What is enough? When will the rich stop getting richer and the poor absorbing a small bit of it? When will we care, truly and even if we do, what are we going to do about it? When will the hungry be fed and the thirst of many quenched, just as God had said?
These things are among the many other things that seep through my mind. I need a stop button because I get so immersed in idealistic thought that I lose all sense of concentration in the present.
On a lighter note, Happy Belated 21st Birthday Ms. Stephaine Tee...
...and a Belated 22nd to Mr. Cornelius Cheong.
Deepest wishes for all things wonderful from me. May this year be somehow different that the previous, in all ways good.
The workload is driving me bonkers. Thank goodness Monday just passed! Five more months in this torturous life as a law student, FIVE MORE MONTHS!
Every night with my mum, I used to pray for an end to poverty, sickness, pain, suffering that God or some greater power would bring me a miracle to cure this sick world. I still pray for these things, sort of as a formality, almost as if I could take a small part of credit IF one day this rotating sphere were cured again.
From there, I've learnt division between my dreams and ideas from reality. I am a somewhat grounded idealist, wishing for all good things to happen to people everywhere but at the same time knowing my boundaries and limits. Every little bit helps, they say and it is true to a great extent but when will it ever be enough? What is enough? When will the rich stop getting richer and the poor absorbing a small bit of it? When will we care, truly and even if we do, what are we going to do about it? When will the hungry be fed and the thirst of many quenched, just as God had said?
These things are among the many other things that seep through my mind. I need a stop button because I get so immersed in idealistic thought that I lose all sense of concentration in the present.
On a lighter note, Happy Belated 21st Birthday Ms. Stephaine Tee...
...and a Belated 22nd to Mr. Cornelius Cheong.
Deepest wishes for all things wonderful from me. May this year be somehow different that the previous, in all ways good.The workload is driving me bonkers. Thank goodness Monday just passed! Five more months in this torturous life as a law student, FIVE MORE MONTHS!