The Life You Could Have Led
Nuff’ said 🙂
What is your life now and what is the life you could have led?
Source: Michael Leunig
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Nuff’ said 🙂
What is your life now and what is the life you could have led?
Source: Michael Leunig
Now I am surviving with watever decision that i have made earlier including taking an engineering degree in U (limited choices and fund) and later work as an engineer from Johor now ended up in KL (my least preferred work place). Wat i could have led is study hard for my biology and grab a degree in Veterinary then work with a vet somewhere… However, what is done cannot be undone, just striving my best on watever i have now rather than worrying and regretting on watever that i could have.
Life is cool, keep exploring. Today i am super optimistic, how about u JJ
The life I could have led – Teaching/Music/Art = Happiness and fullfillment.
The life I lead now – waking up everyday just to be an engineer for 8 hours for the sake of earning a decent income.
Utterly boring, forced to be someone I’m not, totally unhappy dealing with hypocrites in the business world.
I jumped to write a comment! but somehow I am not sure what to write because I haven’t actually graduated yet and hence my life hasn’t actually “started” yet?
But here’s a try!
Life I could have led – studying comp.sci in the US = busy traveling from one state to another, volunteering as a helper for the OSCARS(just to see some stars), grammies, trying out the famous chocolate drink at Serendipity !! and also hopefully getting an internship with a cool videogame company!
Life I lead now – studying comp.sci in Singapore = no traveling but spending more time watching HK drama and Japanese anime. (But still trying out all the good food in Singapore. Of course not the hawker food la!! Hawker food in Sg is nowhere near the ones in M’sia). Attempting to learn how to create a simple standalone RPG on my own from my little hostel room in NUS.
There is only one life – the one you lead now. In the road that one has have travelled, the fork not taken was the fork not meant to be. Even ‘wrong’ decisions were the right ones – probably the only ones – since external conditions and one’s own lack of wisdom or foresight (or the very useful ability to see into the future) sometimes meant making the ‘wrong’ decision, which actually only appears wrong on hindsight.
Look at it another way – Pondering on “The life you could have led” really comes from a growing self-awareness, which then begs the question: What is stopping it from becoming “The life I am going to lead?”
And anyway, what’s a sprightly 20something like you musing on such deathbed thought? 🙂
Haha thanks for the responses 🙂 (Stinky Beans, I clean up for you)
To answer – What is stopping it from becoming “The life I am going to lead?” – around $500,000SGD, not much…
And for – What’s a sprightly 20something like you musing on such deathbed – well, I live everyday as if I’m going to die tomorrow, I think it’s a side effect.
Last but not least – Today i am super optimistic, how about u JJ – I’m super tired, woke up late for work, don’t feel 100% ready for the 5.6K run today and subsequent rehearsal, besides having quite a roller coaster week at work. Besides that, I’m over the moon 🙂