What Does Matter?

It was another one of our Chinese classes where the class was really rowdy and hyper for the school year is about to end and there are only a few more Chinese classes. One of my classmates even said, “Learning Chinese really doesn’t matter for me, I’m just studying to pass and not go to summer classes.” Those lines really struck and led me and my friend, who just like me came from Chinese Advanced class to talk about those days and about how fast the school year has gone by and how fast our stay in Xavier School has been. We reminisced upon our previous Chinese classes and how our Grade 7 Chinese Class was one of the worse times in our lives for we had a really strict teacher, but fast forward 3 years later and what happened and the grades we got during that year don’t even matter anymore.

This really got me thinking as to what really does matter in life. Does it matter if we turn out to be failures in life? Does it matter if we turn out to be the next Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Does it matter if we are rich or poor? We may have different lifespans here on earth, but won’t we all end up dead anyway? so what does matter?

-DOitChoco

 

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Finding the balance between over thinking and impulsiveness….

Hand in hand with my previous post about over thinking, another quote that really struck me when I read Julius Caesar was, “Cowards die many times before their deaths.”

First of all, this quote is a paradox, which is something that is impossible but somehow portrays a truth in life. For instance, people cannot die many times, for when you are dead, you are dead; But what this line applies is that people who are afraid to face life and make the most out of their life, or more commonly known as cowards, might as well be labelled dead for they aren’t doing anything about their life.

This is something that has made me realize that there are moments in our lives, where we should JUST DO IT. Nobody is perfect and we will fail time and time again, so why not just go out, explore, take risks, and live our life to the fullest.

On the contrary, sometimes, JUST DOING IT can also be the cause for tragic endings as seen in another novel of Shakespeare (that we took up in class last year), “Romeo and Juliet.” These star crossed lovers were so impulsive and were very reckless and hasty in their decisions that they ended up dying at such a tender age, side by side. Looking at it from a different perspective though, that may have been what they wanted, to die side by side.

At times, it truly is just better to go out of your way, take the risk, and don’t look back. You’ll never know how something will turn out unless you try. There will always be that big what-if in your head, so instead of thinking about what it may have been like, JUST DO IT!

PS. I am in a state of confusion right now as I am faced with several crucial decisions in this stage of my life. Honestly, I am not sure what I should I do and what path I should take, but maybe I should stop over thinking and JUST DO IT! Comments, feedback and advice would be much appreciated.

-DOitChoco