I met my secondary school mates today.
Well, I didn’t expect that so many of them would come. Yup, in fact 6 of us met in Yosmite for a dinner and a chat.
I am rejoiced to see many of us can still meet up and exchange about the life now and the past.
They talked about the past. But in fact, I couldn’t recall much of the details of the days in secondary school until they mentioned. I tried to dig out pieces of memory to match them up for a clear picture. But I didn’t really managed to do so.
Am I too tried after not having a good sleep for two weeks? Or I just didn’t spare some time or space in the vast brain Grey material to record that?
Although I always regard the secondary school days as my happiest time in China, I haven’t been recalling that.
Probably, I shall try to meditate and recall some of the days now.
Scientists say that people are selective in memory. Am I? I guess so, because truly I can’t recall much of that besides the incidents of being bullied by others which are scars left in mind.
Anyway, everyone of us has changed, in one way or another, getting more mature, both physically and psychologically.
Some are getting married, some are pursuing their masters or even phD, some are working extremely hard…
Everyone has a dream in mind to pursue and everyone is achieving something now.
All the best to them and of course myself.
Notably, there is something unwanted happening now. I have been trying hard to get myself updated regularly on the current affairs of China. And try to prove to everyone that hey, I am still a very China person. Yet-ironically enough-I am not identified by them as a Chinese now. To me it is definitely not a compliment, but is the answer positive to them?
For the past seven years, values of the Singapore way has deeply rooted into my mind and soul. Work hard, strive to be the best is the way out. We fight for everything. We want finance and investment banks. However, at here, most of them are doing jobs on civil engineering/construction related which are the least popular subject in Singapore now.
What I perceive the future is the rising of the financial market, play with the future, options, stocks and trading.
They don’t. They don’t know that.
It is meaningless to discuss about job prospects and merit of the career. There is no right or wrong, as Deng has said, “regardless of a black cat or a white cat, as long as you can catch a mouse, you are a good cat”.
We don’t work in the same culture, we are exposed to a different world.
But, Sun Jin, don’t forgot the common memory you share with them. They were your classmates yesterday and this is forever.
I love my friends.
