Muselisation

Just a few weeks back, a close friend receive news about company is gonna sponsor her to further her studies. Seriously, with terms like that, who is not happy about it. Then again just today, she was telling me about how worried she is, in terms of the depth of her knowledge as well as her professional experience. So I gave her a golden words of advise that I hope will help her and maybe other people that are around me:

Do not whine about the PAST
Do not worried about the FUTURE
Just enjoy the PRESENT...

Think it through, when we were back in the primary school days, don't we always whine about how stupid this teacher is and how lousy that principle is. All we were looking forward to, was just the secondary school that we will be promoted to.
Then again when we were in secondary school, we started arguing with my English teacher about why she should not penalize us for such small mistakes. Thinking back at how nice the primary school teacher was, she would have just warn me and give me the mark still. Cursing and swearing at the syllabus that MOE had came up with, thinking that if only all the syllabus are as easy as it was in primary school.
The same thing goes on and on even through the JC days, the Poly days and even the Uni days.

If you realize, these opportunities only come by once. Think back and you will realize, the type of experience that you go through at the different stages of your life is different.

Someday, you may graduate from a university with a Bachelor Degree, and after working for a few years, you decided that you wish to further your knowledge and so you went on to Masters Program. Even if you get back to the same school, being monitored by the same mentor. Trust me, the experience that you are going through will no longer be the same as the one you had.

So instead of whining and worrying, why not just appreciate the process. Who knows, you may in turn see things that you could not have seen.