Life and Faith

2017. It was a year of disappointment. After a tough year in 2016, I had high hopes and inspiration for 2017. It was going to be my bounce-back year. It was the year that I learn from all the difficulty and hardship from 2016 and blossom in all areas of my life. Goals and standards were set high and my aspiration was it's top. However, it all fell short.  The start of the first semester, I was feeling quite good. I had my major sorted out. I was quite confident, even overconfident. After a mediocre 2016, I was determined to achieve the marks I did in 2015. I was spending more time studying, I had a determined focus and my expectations were high. However, when I receive my mark for the first test I did. I was shocked. I couldn't understand it, why did I receive such a mediocre mark? I put in so much effort in my studies. If this was 2015, I would have got at least 17/20. Soon I chalked it up as just bad luck, and I will do better in my next test. However, this was not the c...

Disappointment. It is something we all have experience with. From when you were young to this very day. From the day you didn’t receive the Christmas present you wanted when you were a kid, to the day when you didn’t get that job you desired, or that holiday, or that crush you wanted to like you back. Our hopes and plans don’t always turn out the way we wanted. We are all constantly subjected to disappointments of unmet desires. Disappointment is a symptom of when we fill unsatisfied or unfulfilled in ourselves or others. We all have expectations of ourselves and the world around us. We subconsciously and consciously set dreams and goals to what we want to achieve. When we were kids, we wanted to be that movie star, or that singer, basketball player or that chef we see on TV. And for many us, these dreams were never fulfilled. As we grew older, we decided to set more realistic goals such as the university to attend, the major to do, the sport to play or the girl to marry. ...