"If you pretend to be good, the world would take you seriously,
If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.
Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
--Oscar Wilde
I was trying to explain what "cheering up" means to Yiting during our session today and I found myself loss for words. Had been a long time since I last cheered up from unspoken pain and misery and because they were unspoken, the misery only sinks deeper and deeper down. Now, it is impossible to pull them out because any attempt would result in my whole heart crumbling. Just like what we used to learn in SJAB during Triage lessons: Any rubble or boulders should not be removed as they would result in the collaspe of the whole building. Sometimes, things may be better if they are left the way they are. The natural protective instinct of human nature coerced us to keep a part of our misery with us so that we will not be susceptible to the same kind of hurt. Perhaps the fear of going through the same kind of hurt makes us hold on to the pain.
Life can never get too good and neither can it ever get too bad. Guess there is a balance in everything. If you think your life is boring, think again. What do you exactly prefer? To end this blog, I would like to share a quote that caught my attention when we were discussing Lit in Year 1:
"Life is unfair. But life is unfair for everyone. That is what that makes life fair"
Jacqueline
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