Things I Realised Today
November 25, 2007, 22:25
Things I realised today:
a. That I will never have kids in Singapore. The system of hot-housing means that kids really are oriented towards results. In a society where results rather than one's values defines success, it would be tragic to have to raise a child whose memories of youth are wasted in spending excessive time on the regurgitation of information and hot-housing.
b. That I will get a car. Now that I finally have my driver's licence, I cannot see the need of having to cram in with everyone on public transport when I can get to work in the comfort of my own vehicle. Neither do I see the value of having to take a bus home from town when it is travelling at snail's pace on the expressway. I will get a car, a cabriolet hopefully.
c. That the preacher in church implicitly affirmed divorce in marriage as something that is sanctionable. A fact which I thought was rather subversive. What next? Condoms?
d. That some people shouldnt have children if they are not able to rein in the little terrors and cause inconvenience to everyone else. It really does seem that people are having children just for the sake of doing so. Perhaps they do it for the sake of getting some monetary benefits, heeding the government's call, or because it is just is something that completes married life. But, if one is unable to provide for the kids or raise them up with the right values because of lack of time or finances, then it is probably better that they not have children because it is not fair to do so.
In fact,the sight of these terrors running around is a harbinger of what is to come. That a generation of brats will grow up and populate this country. Better an aging population than a population that is me-centred.
e. That I can no longer laugh with pure innocence. That this world is so ugly, I wonder why people still bear children only to have them face the ugliness of this world. It is a real tragedy. I see how, in a world so ugly, people kill themselves slowly, by indulging themselves in alcohol, basking in the superficial joy that lasts so long as the alcohol takes effect on the senses. I see how people kill themselves slowly by smoking, getting addicted to everything, hoping to be distracted/or numbing themselves to the tragedy of everything that is happening around them. Every minute is a minute closer to the end. Perhaps it is better to end it quickly. A tragedy, all this. There is no longer hope, or is there?
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