Hello 2011! You sure took a long time to come. 2010 was a rough year, and for some strange and unfathomable reason, I'm glad your here.
You know, I don't really like change. It took me ages to adjust to growing up from secondary school and moving on to JC, and quite frankly, I still sometimes delude myself into feeling that graduation was just yesterday, not months and months ago, and things were still lounging around placidly in my comfort zone. But their not, so I wake up and move on. I hope that this year around I'll be able to cope with things more maturely, and I wish to apologize to the old year for being a bloody asshole most of the time.
I am older, but as cliche as it is, I am certainly still not wiser. (Its funny how that phrase has become cliche both ways over the years.) I've been to many places across the globe over the course of my holidays, and much more so this year, but instead of feeling more worldly and educated, I've actually seen that what I know is nothing, and that there will always be so much more to learn. If you could be so kind, 2011, I'd like to keep that attitude, and I hope your siblings after you would let me keep it alive for a long time to come.
2010 was a year of learning I guess. I learnt a lot of things about myself and society in general, and I don't think that's going to stop anytime soon. I'd like to think that I've mellowed down, and that I am a bit more capable of thinking things through and not just rushing in with headlong force like what I usually do. There were a lot of walls in my way last year, and quite frankly I am quite tired of banging my head against them.
Tomorrow, the day after and the coming months are full of potential. I will be taking A levels, my 2nd blackbelt dan grading, becoming a senior and stepping down from my presidential position in my CCA, and hopefully conquer any emotional demons that will be thrown my way in the near future. I kind of feel old and inexperienced at the same time while writing this, and its a bit frightening.
Ah well. There isn't a logical reason to be frightened of the future... we cant really predict it, and if the future was an animal, it should be more scared of us that us of it. We have the ability to do so much, tear it down, make it shine, ruin or make it.
I'm going to try and do a Nat-Geo like post next time about my Vietnam trip. But till then, to anyone reading this, I hope your 2011 will be fantastic and full of (good) surprises. I wish you all luck and laughter, as well as some courage to face whatever it is the future holds for us.
Welcome to the world, 2011. I hope that we can be good friends.
