WR submission was today.
It's a great feeling to be submitting 40% worth of the grade. Feels like one big burden just rolled off my shoulders and I'M WALKIN ON SUNSHINE WOAH OH OH I'M FEELIN GOOD~
HAHAHAHAHA I don't usually quote lyrics so, it's saying quite a bit.
Recently I found out that I'm actually really curious about the world around me, about how everything works and comes together and just as it is. I think it's a really strange feeling that I don't know how to explain. For example, I'm interested in how geography and history can be studied together to provide connections and links and parallels and oh, imagine how rich our lives would become!
I find it quite a pity that I'm not taking history now, sigh. It was always my best subject. Along with geography. I'd love to take literature as well, to see how we phrase language in geography and history affects how we study the Earth's and human's history.
I wonder what am I doing in the science stream when my interests lie so deeply in the arts/humanities.
I just feel pretty sad for all of us, that as we study in Singapore's education system, the only arts that we know are common to us are geography, history, literature and economics. But there is so much more to the arts than we think, and it shouldn't be made exclusive only for students who qualify, like art and music. (I mean, it's practical that way bc we only have 2 years to complete the syllabus. But still.)
The arts enriches our lives so much more than we can imagine. It helps us to see things in a way that they are all connected to each other and not just isolated subjects by themselves. It helps us to think deeper as we examine what was done in the past and what we can learn from it. It helps us to develop ourselves as we get in touch with our softer side and brings out the humanity in us.
I believe this helps us to achieve a greater appreciation for everything around us and to see things as they are instead of trying to fit them into our ideal template. We learn to be more empathetic, to understand that everything is different and instead of trying to change them so that they fit into our personal models, we bring out the best in them and turn their weaknesses into strengths.
Wouldn't this make the world a better place?
I'm not saying that sciences are not good. Sciences help us to develop a logical mind, to be orderly and to justify ourselves based on concrete evidence so that we're not all chaotic beings running around. But with such emphasis on sciences, are we losing our humanity? Our softer side?
It is good to be analytical at times, but in life, what is cast in stone? We don't live in the ideal world where only one variable is changed at a time so that we can easily navigate. Most of the time, we just have to believe in our intuition and our instincts to guide us through life. As a human.
I don't know how much one person can do, but as much as I can, I want to live a life that I believe is right.
Maybe some people feel that everything can be put into equations and calculated mathematically. That's fine by me. I don't think that's wrong (I'm a science student after all), I just think that we need to discover for ourselves what we can do to make the world a better place.
Of course I'm not only influenced by all these. My faith plays a big part too. But then again, putting our belief in something helps to bring out the intuitive side of ourselves, to be sensitive to the things and happenings around us and to see the connections between the things of life and life itself.
What we need is a radical shift of values and mindset to see the change that we want to see. And it starts somewhere, with a single person.
