The Road Not Taken...is meant not to be taken
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;"
All of us will at least recite the poem, The Road Not Taken written by the legendary, American poet, Robert Frost at least once in a lifetime. The time when we got our SPM results. As much as we wished to posses some supernatural power so that we can see our future and don't need to think hard on which path to take, every sane human knows it can never be. Not sure about you but putting the bet of my past 13years of education from Nursery, Elementary to Secondary on a single path to determine 'who will I be' was a super-duper huge responsibility to me for I never want to let my family down. Nevertheless, till this moment, I've never regretted of the road I've taken and I really hope, so do you.
Ever since I left high school, every year around March, I will be getting phone calls from different year of juniors asking the same question, "Which Pre-U is the best route?" and every year I will reply the same statement, "No such thing as the best route". However, this year is a bit different for one of the juniors is my youngest sister and this is what I told her:
The best route is the route that you are and will be taking. Every route is a solution or else it wouldn't even be named as 'option'. Whatever you plan to do, just keep one simple word in your mind and heart. Passion. Personally, I am not a smart or first class student and there are times I screwed the papers but one thing I am always grateful for, is whenever someone approaches me with the question, "Why engineering? Why mechanical?" I won't be dumbfounded and sounded like a lost kid. However, ambition and passion are two different things. Ambitions might change as you grow but passion will be rooted there always and forever to drive you further in life.
As quoted from Abraham Lincoln, every day is shaping you to be who you are in the future. You don't past your 11 years of life in schools for nothing.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;"
All of us will at least recite the poem, The Road Not Taken written by the legendary, American poet, Robert Frost at least once in a lifetime. The time when we got our SPM results. As much as we wished to posses some supernatural power so that we can see our future and don't need to think hard on which path to take, every sane human knows it can never be. Not sure about you but putting the bet of my past 13years of education from Nursery, Elementary to Secondary on a single path to determine 'who will I be' was a super-duper huge responsibility to me for I never want to let my family down. Nevertheless, till this moment, I've never regretted of the road I've taken and I really hope, so do you.
Ever since I left high school, every year around March, I will be getting phone calls from different year of juniors asking the same question, "Which Pre-U is the best route?" and every year I will reply the same statement, "No such thing as the best route". However, this year is a bit different for one of the juniors is my youngest sister and this is what I told her:
The best route is the route that you are and will be taking. Every route is a solution or else it wouldn't even be named as 'option'. Whatever you plan to do, just keep one simple word in your mind and heart. Passion. Personally, I am not a smart or first class student and there are times I screwed the papers but one thing I am always grateful for, is whenever someone approaches me with the question, "Why engineering? Why mechanical?" I won't be dumbfounded and sounded like a lost kid. However, ambition and passion are two different things. Ambitions might change as you grow but passion will be rooted there always and forever to drive you further in life.
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ReplyDeletehehehe..thanks Jinn :D
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