What is your life?
'You are a mist that appears for a while and then vanishes.'
Sometimes, I couldn't help but to wonder...
Is it who we are, or what we are (our achievements/titles/ results) that is more important?
And I'm still wondering about these kind of useless/meaningless stuff when the whole world out there is mugging their heads off.
Yep. This is WHO I am.
Life IS indeed short. (quotes cheryl) I don't want to lie on my death bed with my last thought being, "...and so, the resulting negatively-charged O atom then takes up a proton to form a cyanohydrin product, and another CN- ion is regenerated to replace the one which did the initial attack...and also the curly arrow from O- to H of the H-CN...." (last gasp of air... then die).
(you are worried about your future)
At the end of the day, the A levels cert is JUST A PIECE of paper. It's nothing but a mere piece of paper that could/might open more opportunities for you if you could do well (enough). It doesn't guarantee success. Not at all. It's just something that puts a complete (wholesome and round) full-stop to 12 years of formal education, which ironically, doesn't guarantee 100% educated, civilized people at the end of the day.
(you are still worried about your future)
What matters more is, do you see yourself as a global citizen? (Or just a Singapore citizen?) Singapore is so small that there's not much opportunities anyway (esp with so many FTs that it's becoming a 'small world' in this small little island). Success (at least to me) is defined overseas. It's just too suffocating here to produce new ideas, to get the kind of quality (be it life, or work, or projects etc).
(you are worried about your future future)
And Singapore is successful? I'm rather skeptical about it. Probably successful from the way the world looks at us, probably from the dividends from investments overseas. But internally, the picture isn't as rosy. Many things are breaking down, and I actually wonder whether those in authority has ever sensed its urgency. (esp the education system, and our population) They're trying harder, and harder to change, but what's the result? Guess it's an open secret that things are not going the way we expected, but nothing much could be done after all. It's somewhat like a vicious cycle. No babies? Import more foreign talents. Local talents? (not good enough???) Don't feel treasured, migrate overseas. Population problem again, and then more foreign talents. Well, that's the successful Singapore for you. Nothing but a migrant society.
(you are worried about your far future future...)
An A level cert (by Singapore-Cambridge) of straight A's could probably get you as far as being an ordinary citizen in the civil service (get your monthly pay, and just be contented). Overseas A level cert (by Cambridge) could probably bring you much further (and could even grant you a scholarship more easily). Well, this is the kind of messages the local universities seem to be sending.
(and back to worrying about your future)
Oh well, at the end of the day, it still depends on God. (Sometimes, I couldn't help to hope that the second coming of Christ would be sooooonnn!!) yea. crazy thought.
James 4:14
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
When would the day come..... when all stays and remain (including that piece of stupid cert that everyone is aiming for perfection), but you're gone? What difference would it make to the world? Nothing, nothing at all. But at least to God, you're something. Everyone, every single one counts.