Time to time people I met people with a dream. It could be their dream course, their charming chemistry guy or they just wanted all HDs again this semester. I have only one dream, I want to be a qualified pharmacist.
I have only one rule on this matter - if you did not fought for it at the first place, you forewent the right to complain donkeys years later. Why whine after the cow has passed away but not do something when you are trying to milk the cow in the first place.
I do not care how much you wanted something or that you are truly unhappy now for having to obey your parents' wishes because I just lack the empathy in this case. At least I am not telling you straight in the face - you asked for it.
We need to live with the consequences of our decisions and most of the time, the high price we pay on top of the unhappiness just does not justify the whole event.
I make my own equations, to the extent being labeled as stubborn. It is simple, my life, my decision and in the end, at least I would not have to start pointing my finger putting blame on others. My life, your decision, I do not like it, I blame you!
If it is a bad decision, I will just suck it up, just the way life should be.
Humans too have the tendency to come out with alternative explanation or rather excuses when they fail to achieve something. Call it pride but we need a medium to get down even though when we are defeated.
In Malaysian context, it would go like : " You think I can not meh, I don't want only mah." Yeah right.
Everyone believes they are smarter than their peers but only a few are smarter anyway.
In other cases, people are told to aim for the stars and some do really aim for the stars. In fact, they never try to settle for anything less their whole life. They are willing to die [literally] for their dream, as if they could not live if they did not achieve it this life, at least that is how they tend to put it.
A realist like me would never understand. Be realistic, clouds are not that bad after all. In fact, call me low achievers. I do not dream big, I dream realistically.
There are people out there screaming for higher cut-off for students intend to do critical courses like medicine, preferably the top 5% of the population. I understand that too because the public are going to suffer if the doctors are not qualified and competent but the amount of students and parents wanting their children to do medicine stretches more than the top 5%.
I just feel like mumbling a little. rest my case.
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