Growing up and looking forward

Last friday was pretty exciting in my company when we had our annual Family Day. I helped out quite substantiatively as the photographer although I'm not on the recreation committee and I'm glad I did as I enjoyed myself thoroughly and took lovely photographs that definitely go into the album of memories that last a lifetime.

I guess I exhibited quite an outflow of enthusiasm, fueled partially by my departure. Let's leave with a bang!

I just had a talk with JS and he told me that he has a little dilemma about what to do in his life as well. He's just graduated from NUS with a 2nd upper in Chemistry and he'd be off to HKU for the next 2 years to pursue his masters. After he returns, he's got to spend another 4 years in NIE to complete his MOE scholarship bond. That makes him 30 years old by then and if you ask me, he's got lots of time to think critically about his direction in life as I feel when one reaches 30+ that's where the quarter life crisis occurs and since his path is already determined, he shouldn't have too much difficulty figuring out what else to do as he does not have to worry about making a bad decision at this stage in time as it has already been determined by/for him. It's quite unlike me and most other friends of around the same age group, where the precious shards of youth as a young adult are escaping us as we speak and any conscious decision we make now (be in career or life) has an impact when the next life crisis happens. Why is that so? I guess we're regressing as we turn older, holding tenaciously to our beliefs of the world we thought we spent our youth figuring out as the world changes yet again and leaves us behind.

On another corner, I just chatted with HY 2 weeks back and she's facing a similar dilemma as I am currently at home as well, and that is with nagging parents who do not understand and give sufficient freedom to young, independent adults and always view them as kids that never grow up. She wants to leave and she's stoking my desire once again to leave as well, and that I think I will, probably JET but that will be a few years later since I've got something on my plate at the moment that I'll like to give a shot at. But to leave is a burning desire and definitely before I lose my shards of youth.

Kitto umakuyatte ikeru.