We Are Back

We met up with two graduates yesterday. Mrs Nah and I shared with each other later, that it's occassion like this that really made us proud and feel the sense of satisfaction: seeing that our students finally grow up, mature, starting their own career, become sensible...

Just like our students, we have all been deviant in our lives.

I was the depressed teenager, decided to major in psychology (which freaked The Mom out because it was such a "huh-what-is-that" subject) even though I had no idea what to do with the degree after that... Mrs Nah wanted to do radio since primary school... we were not quite "approved" by our parents based on their yardsticks. But the most important thing is, we survived. We never went the criminal way because we were very sure of what we wanted to do. And today, our parents (still think that we are deviant because of we don't quite listen to them) sort of let us off -- our dreams before, considered devianced, turned out to be more than just alright.

I guess in our lives, we need to do something out of the ordinary sometimes. (And no that does not include smoking and smoking "sisha" and drugs and cheating and others "morally challenged" things).

Back to the graudates, they too did some deviance acts before (skipping schools etc) but at the end of the day, we learn, we grow. We might be conformists, but we know where we are heading to. And that's the most important thing - know your destination. And be appreciative.