话题

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we must go back to a time when warriors would gather round a fire and tell stories”

A quote from a book of which i had just read, and the paragraph was telling of the exact answer that i had been searching for these few days, all in a leisure reading of a book.

I was talking to 2 cadets about the quality of our unit and apparently both parties learnt things that we did not thought of or did not even want to find out. One party was concerned about why the other was "finding excuses" not to come for activity and the other party was wanting to finally catch hold of an avenue to "vent their frustrations". The officer wanted a closely knitted unit whereby everyone would just fit into the puzzle but the cadet wanted a conducive environment whereby he would come to a CCA and be able to enjoy like what he saw in the other uniformed group.

Then I pondered and I pondered and I began to wonder: did we lose ourselves in the rules of the world? Did we get so lost in the pre-arranged layout of the big society that we are barely living our own lives in the way we wanted them to be? Things had to go because they had been going the way they were for so long that no one bothers to change them. We all want stability, we all want the formula of success, but when it comes to the end of it all, I really do wonder how many of us ever get real success, or even ever thought about it at all?
I do not want to be a person who will die an eventual death and to go about it boringly. Life should be full of colours and life should be living each and everyday with a single tingle of regret. Though I am still far from my ideal life, it is with slow and steady steps that I will embark onto this journey.
Likewise, I will carry on the long journey for 4C and for the “leftovers” in the unit. Hold on to everyone, be true, stay true and not be afraid to face hardships, that will be at least what I am aiming towards.
The future is never up to us to predict or arrange but how it will appear to be will be dependent on our efforts to make it so. We may fail but then we must never forget that we may win too. Take the gamble and let the game of life roll on!