Saturday, February 25, 2006
i hope i never lose that sense of wonder
i was walking to class today (which i was 1 hour late for and would decide tt i would not attend in the end) when i happened to be looking upwards instead of straight ahead.
and for the first time i noticed snow capped mountains framing the buildings of UBC. pretty snow capped mountains, the ones you usually only see in postcards unless you're say... fortunate enough to be able to travel.
it hit me. i was living the dream. ever since JC i'd wanted to study in an overseas institution other than singapore, and while i never did get to go to chicago or LSE, i was here at UBC in canada for 8 months. and who would have thought tt?
and yet, it seemed tt i'd become too desensitized to this place. i'd lost tt sense of awe tt i first experienced when i walked through the airport doors to a pleasant breeze and passed over the lion's gate bridge with its view of the mountains in north van.
it had been very very windy yesterday. the kind of wind tt you fight against to walk through; the kind tt chills you to your bones. and fighting tt wind on my way to the law library it hit me tt i was in a temperate country. i mean, i'd always known tt, but it's one thing to know something as a piece of information, and another to know it intimately and personally.
it scares me, tt i am wasting all the opportunities tt i have here. there is so much to do and see, so long as i take tt extra effort to go do what i want to or see what i want to. there is a wealth of chances to do things like camp, bike, hike, snowboard, travel far and wide, take long long rides out to new places, do things tt i would otherwise not be able to do in singapore...
and yet i have so many wants and not enough actions taken.
the clock is ticking. i can't honestly say tt i am going to come back here again once i return to singapore. if i want to properly live my dream, i have to live it now.
i cannot be desensitived. i cannot lose my sense of wonder.
because without tt wonder, what else is there worth looking forward to?
and for the first time i noticed snow capped mountains framing the buildings of UBC. pretty snow capped mountains, the ones you usually only see in postcards unless you're say... fortunate enough to be able to travel.
it hit me. i was living the dream. ever since JC i'd wanted to study in an overseas institution other than singapore, and while i never did get to go to chicago or LSE, i was here at UBC in canada for 8 months. and who would have thought tt?
and yet, it seemed tt i'd become too desensitized to this place. i'd lost tt sense of awe tt i first experienced when i walked through the airport doors to a pleasant breeze and passed over the lion's gate bridge with its view of the mountains in north van.
it had been very very windy yesterday. the kind of wind tt you fight against to walk through; the kind tt chills you to your bones. and fighting tt wind on my way to the law library it hit me tt i was in a temperate country. i mean, i'd always known tt, but it's one thing to know something as a piece of information, and another to know it intimately and personally.
it scares me, tt i am wasting all the opportunities tt i have here. there is so much to do and see, so long as i take tt extra effort to go do what i want to or see what i want to. there is a wealth of chances to do things like camp, bike, hike, snowboard, travel far and wide, take long long rides out to new places, do things tt i would otherwise not be able to do in singapore...
and yet i have so many wants and not enough actions taken.
the clock is ticking. i can't honestly say tt i am going to come back here again once i return to singapore. if i want to properly live my dream, i have to live it now.
i cannot be desensitived. i cannot lose my sense of wonder.
because without tt wonder, what else is there worth looking forward to?
# posted by Kitana @ 2/25/2006 07:28:00 AM 
Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
<< Home
