Getting out of poverty circle and be an example!!!
Too busy or should I say too lazy to blog these few weeks. Anyway, here I am, finally writing. Had wanted to write so many things but now, suddenly my mind is blur!!!! What a terrible way to start blogging! Must slap myself awake! Joking lah!, where got so stupid, slapping yourself!
But seriously, I remembered reading an article a few weeks ago in the paper. If I remember correctly, it happens in china or was it hongkong? Whatever lah! The story was about a family, whose children was living alone as the parent was not with them, I think it was the father was in jail and the mother had left them. The amazing thing was that in their village, there were 2 boys who had been quietly helping them, going to their house to bath the 2 small kids and using their own pocket money to buy the kids meals. All this that they had done, was done without anyone noticing and they had never go around telling anyone. The villagers only come to know about it when one of the villagers accidentally visited that family.
This is what I called, a real caring and unselfish fellow human being, who seek not the applause or glory of others! Too often we had done things with ulterior motives or seeking recognition, and that includes me also! How I wished that I could be like them, always doing things without some other motives!
Things had been happening for the last few weeks. Students wanting to leave their course, students bullying one another,etc. I really wished that before anyone wishing to leave their course, will think twice before doing so. The money that seem so much to them now, should they start working, will never be sufficient for them in days to come when they have a family. That is the reason why I tell students, that if they ever want to break out of their present "poverty" situation, the only way is to study hard and progress on. Sadly, this is the situation in Singapore, without any paper qualification, it is almost impossible to get a good job and to live "comfortably".
I know what I am writing, as I was in that stage before, coming from a large family of 12, with my mother a hawker, pushing the cart all over the streets, just to make a living. I had been poor before, and thank God, as I learn to tell myself that I need to study so as to break this vicious "poverty" circle, and now I can provide enough for my family, without having to worry for the next meal.
So to all my beloved students! Please do study hard and don't, DON'T ever think of quitting, as this will be the beginning of your downfall!
I guess that's all I have to write.
Happy reading.
But seriously, I remembered reading an article a few weeks ago in the paper. If I remember correctly, it happens in china or was it hongkong? Whatever lah! The story was about a family, whose children was living alone as the parent was not with them, I think it was the father was in jail and the mother had left them. The amazing thing was that in their village, there were 2 boys who had been quietly helping them, going to their house to bath the 2 small kids and using their own pocket money to buy the kids meals. All this that they had done, was done without anyone noticing and they had never go around telling anyone. The villagers only come to know about it when one of the villagers accidentally visited that family.
This is what I called, a real caring and unselfish fellow human being, who seek not the applause or glory of others! Too often we had done things with ulterior motives or seeking recognition, and that includes me also! How I wished that I could be like them, always doing things without some other motives!
Things had been happening for the last few weeks. Students wanting to leave their course, students bullying one another,etc. I really wished that before anyone wishing to leave their course, will think twice before doing so. The money that seem so much to them now, should they start working, will never be sufficient for them in days to come when they have a family. That is the reason why I tell students, that if they ever want to break out of their present "poverty" situation, the only way is to study hard and progress on. Sadly, this is the situation in Singapore, without any paper qualification, it is almost impossible to get a good job and to live "comfortably".
I know what I am writing, as I was in that stage before, coming from a large family of 12, with my mother a hawker, pushing the cart all over the streets, just to make a living. I had been poor before, and thank God, as I learn to tell myself that I need to study so as to break this vicious "poverty" circle, and now I can provide enough for my family, without having to worry for the next meal.
So to all my beloved students! Please do study hard and don't, DON'T ever think of quitting, as this will be the beginning of your downfall!
I guess that's all I have to write.
Happy reading.
posted by Sebastian Chu at 5:06 PM
