Hi. its the 1st week of school and i kinda feel wierd...

with a blink of my eye, i m already sec 4. its the O levels this year. lessons are very fast-paced. beginning tomorrow, remedials will be starting.... fast huh... then soon, the prelims, the O levels and soon results will come out and i m outta secondary life. life as you see it is not very slow, as some of you think... as a matter of fact life goes very fast... very very fast. i felt like it was only last week when i was born and now... secondary school life's ending.

here i share a quote which i found very meaningful:

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

- Bertrand Russsel

Indeed, life is always about getting new knowledge, love and also suffering. the reason to get new knowledge is to improve oneself's well-being. that's why we go school.

life without life is life a human without a heart. love is only about the normal boy-girl relationship, it is also about the love between kinship and friendship and love in yourself. friends and kins are your support in times of need. they are important in times of need, and sometimes to provide one with a helping hand and a listening ear. loving yourself is about giving the respect to your body. it is about how you treat yourself. how you treat yourself is often how people treat you. for example, you take drugs to harm your body, then the people around you will treat you the same way, they will reject you and will always be a burden to them and have the mindset that you will be a burden to them and cause them trouble.

life is also suffering. it is only through sufferings that one learn some facts of life that cannot be learnt through books and in class. some things can only be learnt only when you've been through it. for example, one would never know how a beggar feels unless you be a beggar yourself and try.

it is only through having and pursuing these three passions of life, one can say that their lives are worth living.