![]() Then again, ignorance is rarely a defence to culpability. These are not consequences I intended, or even foreseen, though perhaps I should have. (It is on Kev’s bucket list at least.)Īnd I thought I had counted the costs-S$4,000 (yes, it’s a crazy budget the boys initially aimed for S$2,200), six weeks of absence from the lives of my loved ones, one and a half months of bumming around without pay and without career progress.īut I did not factor in that my niece’s early months are swiftly passing by, that I would be unable to drop by my sister’s place to chat with her in person, or that my insecurities about being unemployed and directionless would escalate so swiftly. It is epic, it is once-in-a-lifetime, and it is the kind of trip that people put on their bucket lists. ![]() And I don’t think we ever really know until we live the choices we make.Ĭonsider this Trans-Siberian Railway trip that I am on. Maybe it does boil down to Mark Manson’s most important question: What pain do I want in my life? What am I willing to struggle for?īut that presupposes that I know what I will suffer, what I will struggle with, what I will give up. But I wanted so many other things-prestige, power, wealth, and also to keep other options open-and so I became a lawyer.īut I realized I didn’t want the acrimony, the commodification of people’s time and problems into billables, and most of all, I didn’t want the world-ending pressures that woke me up in cold sweat and jarred my prayer life so tumultously. I wanted to study physics, psychology, literature, and even architecture. Then I wanted to be a marine biologist, and then a writer. ‘I want everything.’”When I was young, I wanted to be a paleontologist. I want,’ he said, and then he paused and he thought. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island.
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