Growing Up
It's strange that sometimes you just grow out of something.
When you're smaller, saying "thank you" is such an easy task as you just feel so thankful for something someone has done for you.
When you're older, you feel less thankful. Perhaps, you feel that it ought to have been done for you.
Are we getting less grateful as we grow older? Are we losing a part of something nice in us every time we grow older?
That is perhaps the reason why we always think of the past. An adult would think of childhood. A secondary student would think of life in primary school.
If something is nice, keep it. It's never immature or embarrassing to say "thank you". Neither is it so to think of your primary school life or even miss it.
It will only be so if you choose to ignore how you feel in your heart or deny having that feeling. Don't grow up disposing something nice that you think it's immature to possess.
I, for one, still kept a card made by my P4 friend as I switched school in P5.
Don't live your life with these missing jigsaw pieces. Build up the pieces and make your life a beautiful picture.
Posted by Mr Wan
posted by Allan at
12:55 AM
3 Comments:
Agreed. Its those small things in life that we tend to overlook. Cherish the moments.
For someone who has gone overseas and come back, you've certainly grown a lot and are more sharp towards such feelings.
I guess Joslyn and you would understand my message in more depth.
Great improvements, Andrew. :)
I remember on the last day of my schooling in UK, my class made me this book that they did together, telling me how they would miss me and all and gave me farewell gifts. The presents have been used and all, but the first two years back in Singapore, I left it under my pillow.
When we grow up, it's like...pride takes over everything and stuff, esp in this modern society with social awareness going on everywhere, :(.
But I guess what's important is sincerity and how you say "thank you". OK, its a simple phrase, but really, if you just say "thank you" without a hint of sincerity, whats the point? It's the exact same thing with saying "sorry".
:)
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