Sometimes....
I hate it when people use Richard Branson and Bill Gates as examples of those who found what they loved, never settled for mediocrity, and always believed that God would somehow connect the dots for them in the end. Yes, both Branson and Gates are successful. No doubts about that. They are one of those who have succeeded in living their lives the way they wanted despite never graduating. They are good examples that education is not a hindrance to success. We just need the courage to go out and do things, instead of fretting over trivial matters. True. And I tell you, the success stories of Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Branson and their likes are truly stories that can make you feel like you can do anything in this world.... Nothing can stop you from pursuing your dream.
But we must always remember that the only stories we hear are the successful ones. For every Richard Branson story we hear about, there are a hundred failures that we DON'T hear about. There is only one Gates and one Dell. How many of us can be the next? How about those stories of people pursuing their ideal dream so hard and actually achieving it, only to find out it's not as fulfilling as it was supposed to be?? How many???
Giving those examples are extremely simple to say, and yet very hard to put into practice. There are people, stuck in poverty and most of these people do not have the liberty to ponder upon what they want to do with their lives. Everyday is a fight for survival for them. These are examples of the sheer randomness of life - the cruelty of it, in fact... Thanks to the meritocracy system in our beloved country, it is sometimes so hard for a Malaysian with dreams to fulfill it. If one has no money, those dreams can actually go down the drain. There are stories of Malaysians with stellar academic results but was not offered a PSD or Petronas schalarship and even a place in matrics. However, with their stellar results, they were offered places to read their desired course in top universities in the world. But there again, they might not be able to further their studies unless granted a scholarship to lessen their parent's burden..
So much for those self-help books that drive the so-called positive force. It's BuLL....
God willing, He will somehow connect the dots for me in the end IF it is His calling for me to enter that trade. So be it.
I hate it when people use Richard Branson and Bill Gates as examples of those who found what they loved, never settled for mediocrity, and always believed that God would somehow connect the dots for them in the end. Yes, both Branson and Gates are successful. No doubts about that. They are one of those who have succeeded in living their lives the way they wanted despite never graduating. They are good examples that education is not a hindrance to success. We just need the courage to go out and do things, instead of fretting over trivial matters. True. And I tell you, the success stories of Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Branson and their likes are truly stories that can make you feel like you can do anything in this world.... Nothing can stop you from pursuing your dream.
But we must always remember that the only stories we hear are the successful ones. For every Richard Branson story we hear about, there are a hundred failures that we DON'T hear about. There is only one Gates and one Dell. How many of us can be the next? How about those stories of people pursuing their ideal dream so hard and actually achieving it, only to find out it's not as fulfilling as it was supposed to be?? How many???
Giving those examples are extremely simple to say, and yet very hard to put into practice. There are people, stuck in poverty and most of these people do not have the liberty to ponder upon what they want to do with their lives. Everyday is a fight for survival for them. These are examples of the sheer randomness of life - the cruelty of it, in fact... Thanks to the meritocracy system in our beloved country, it is sometimes so hard for a Malaysian with dreams to fulfill it. If one has no money, those dreams can actually go down the drain. There are stories of Malaysians with stellar academic results but was not offered a PSD or Petronas schalarship and even a place in matrics. However, with their stellar results, they were offered places to read their desired course in top universities in the world. But there again, they might not be able to further their studies unless granted a scholarship to lessen their parent's burden..
So much for those self-help books that drive the so-called positive force. It's BuLL....
God willing, He will somehow connect the dots for me in the end IF it is His calling for me to enter that trade. So be it.
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