What is responsibility? It is bearing the full cost/blame/liability for the decision one has made. I've learnt and understand this word ever since I was 16, when I first left my family to study aboard. No matter how upset I was, how homesick I had gotten, I was taught unlike kids from the same age, I can't rely on my family, for I had to bear the responsibility I had made, and that is to study and live alone by myself. I was taught that I cant tell my family how much I miss them, coz I would b told off and asked to bear the full cost by myself. Throughout the ten years, I had learnt to hide my emotional thoughts from my family. Eventually friends had become a great part of my life. But soon I had realised that frens will go one day, for everyone has got their own life, and the only one I could ever rely on is God and myself. I dun regret for whatever decisions I had made throughout these times. If I were to choose again, I would have chosen the same path. I would have chosen to go to Singapore, I would have chosen to go to Sydney. I would have chosen to do my Hons, I would have chosen to do my PhD. I might have moan or complain about it at times, but I never regret. Everything happens for a reason. I wouldn't have become who I am if I havent chosen the same path. I love my career. I love being a scientist and I am so gratful that I had got to know God. Unlike kids that have always stuck with the family the whole time, I have become independent and widen my way to see things at an earlier age. Everyone has a reason behind in doing things. I hate it when ppl critise other ppl without putting themselves into other ppl's shoes, without thinking the situation other ppl is going thru. They thought they have understood everything but the real fact is they are still living in the tiny world they are living in and they have applied this "tiny world" theory to ppl around them. They had never been in situation other ppl had and they critised other ppl on the reactions/ways in doing things based on the "theory" they know. To me, these ppl are just the most childish of all. |