People

So recently is this ongoing kindness movement in school, Friends of Singa, and I'm part of the team in charge of this. We put up boards at different places of the school, in hope that students will write thing there actually pertaining to empathy, this year's theme. 3 school days without supervision and it came to my horror that 3 boards are missing (well it is our fault for not monitoring it daily and sticking it up when it fell), and we have all, and I mean all, boards disfigured somewhere.

Things don't always go out the way we expect it to be, but I guess that's just life. We planned for a place to hang it up after the boards are full, but I doubt we can do this now. Am I disappointed with the students? Pretty much. Ponies, dragons, cookies, writing over other people's words... Seriously? It's not something I expect out of 13-15 years old individuals, but maybe it's just the overly high expectations. After spending a few weeks analysing Barry Schwartz's Paradox of Choice, the key to happiness is low expectations. Maybe even giving so much trust into people wasn't a good idea. I don't know. Time will tell.

Then I thought, the Student Council will also face such situations. Oh well. It's time to brave myself.

"Everything was better, back when everything was worse. - Barry Schwartz"

Well here's another type of people I met along the way. Small children. Their warm, genuine smiles and innocent faces who have yet to step into the cold, crude reality life is. Just watching them run around with their squeaky shoes, scolding each other for tiny things and watching them fall and get back up again... Just makes me smile. And I thought, where have my childhood went?

And now adults. I would say this person is more carefree than anyone else. It's his birthday today and I actually forgot it (wow). Birthdays aren't that important to me anyway, and buying your own birthday cake just seems more depressing. Well... Whichever perspective you look at society from, it just is depressing.