Force
The one thing in my short list of "Things I remember in my Physics Class" would be force. Mr. Ang, a tall, lanky and soft spoken teacher would repetitively say "F maaaaaaa~" in a typical kampung Chinese intonation. Kononnya to help us with its equation of F=ma.
That's just a lame intro. ;)
You know you have a watchful force breathing on your neck behind you when you turn into your 20s and decisions for your 'better future' are still made for you, obviously forcefully. But I have to admit it's a little contradicting. You KNOW it's for the better, for the benefit of your 20 to 30 years time (InsyaAllah), but the fact that the WAY you're introduced to the matter of art is a little bit unacceptable.
It's the same feeling of a child in her primary school. She should be having fun playing tag at school, mural painting, become a scout or something. But the mother wants her to take ballet classes, the father wants her to take kung fu classes, the grandparents think they're overworking her etc. The kid is literally being pushed around for her 'better future'. She's not a thing, not an object you know.
This also comes from an article I read from NST today; children now are too di-manja-kan, parents being too watchful. In their 'determined' future of success, professionals predict it will happen otherwise. Decision making would be weak when in times it is needed most. In the end, a mistake that is NOT suppose to happen, just happened.
The same with changing teaching languages every freakin' 5 to 10 years! Wouldn't that actually make the country's future become predictable? 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, bla bla bla bla' is not needed to KNOW that it will become kelam-kabut in terms of choosing a language. Things like these are just like drug or vaccine tests. You need a long duration of time to observe holistically. If not, everything would go WRONG. Ok, that isn't necessarily a good example of a force, it is instead a kind of law. But you get the concept right?
I AM thankful for the effort. But as a person who can think with her own brain and should be able to decide and see what she wants (whether its sooner or later), a sudden drop of a basketful of skills and knowledge can leave you blind, blank and irritated! It's like you're suddenly lost! And with further misunderstanding and manipulation of words, you'll get uberly upset!
BUT, not until you realise and KNOW, this thingamajig is YOUR thing. That may take a few seconds, minutes, hours, or simply decades.
Live happily.
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