thoughtshowerings

I am so tired of school. That feeling sets in routinely every semester after mid semester. It hits you without warning, like a huge sack of potatoes, WHAM, leaving you rather disorientated and dazed. You saunter into classes, almost mechanically, because you are already so accustomed to where to turn, where to take what stairs, on which floor. Even the tiles look familiar to you, you know when you head to wrong place in school. Suddenly, learning becomes dull and leaves you more sullen than you already are. Results do determine a person's worth...at least for the first half of his life. Disagree? Then find me a credible, reliable, and widely accepted way to quantify a person's abilities during his schooling years. Results are the easiest to quantify and most observable with the least cost. Same goes when you transit out into the working world, quantifiable results, concrete results are the best indicator. Although correlation does not imply causation, but we like to link g...

When expectations and reality do not match. We all have our own sets of expectations of the things that come into our lives. By that I mean expectations of everything. Like when you order a plate of food from a stall you haven't patronised before, you'll definitely have some sort of expectations. When you meet somebody for the first time, you'll have your own set of expectations too, based on his looks or maybe his actions. Or should I say that is your pre-conceived notions. But whatever the case, we all have our own expectations on how things "should" be. And what if reality doesnt fit into your expectations? To accept or deny it? I guess it depends on severity then. How severe is it going to affect your life? Tragically or minor and insignificant. Sometimes when expectations and reality misalign, do you want to keep holding on to it? Hoping that your persistence will pay off and things will go accordingly to what you've expected? Does that mean tha...