4/07/2008 08:41:00 PM
It has been three months of tests, games, CIP, class activities and fun for the whole class. I'm sure everyone agrees that the class is becoming more united and bonded. However, during the selection of fac comm members this morning, one important question was raised: What do you see of the class at the end of this year? So yes, as the title suggests, I feel that we face an imminent problem that is lurking just over the horizon.
Of scandals...
Two people, a boy and a girl, are good friends. They can confide in each other, but that does not mean that they were meant to be a couple. Along comes a random person, who observes their close relationship, and a spark is all it takes to start a raging fire of rumours. Sounds familiar? This seemingly innocent act by our random person is "just in the name of fun" but the potential consequences can be disastrous. While both the boy and girl might be open and ignore the rumours, all it takes is for one of them to start feeling pressured or embarrassed and their relationship is on a one way trip to destruction. (Well maybe not a one way trip, just like going down a waterfall, it's
almost impossible to get back to the top).
A perfectly harmless friendship is so easily shattered by heavy blows to either or both persons because of the rumours...
Of love(?)...
What is love? More often than not, we use the word so offhandedly without really understanding our own feelings toward another. From my observer's point of view, there are people in our class who claim to like someone. But should we let such feelings, which we ourselves aren't very sure of, affect our school life? Remember our first CT period - love should not be harmful. It should therefore not occupy our minds at every moment that we breathe, and neither should it ruin our friendships with others. I can't claim to know about love, but I strongly believe that we should not treat the one we claim to love (for this purpose I shall use the word 'crush' instead) as our possession. When one's crush is friendly with another of the opposite sex, do we have the right to feel jealous, or get angry at the "intrusive" person? How should one react when one's crush has a crush on another?
I for one definitely do not have the answers to such questions. However, my humble opinion is this: love is not made to order. Cliche though it may sound, I firmly believe that we cannot make decisions for others, let alone one's crush. Rather, instead of being negative, we should be more positive. If one truly likes someone, one should want that special someone to be happy, rather than direct that special someone to make one happy. Also, by "professing one's love", it might again ruin a perfectly harmless friendship. Therefore, rather than being outright and brash, I believe that one should just care for that special someone from a distance, helping that someone in our own little ways. Besides, for all we know, that special someone is just a passing thing, we cannot know for sure who awaits us in our future.
I'm sorry if I may have bored/offended/confused anyone with this long post. However, I truly feel that after going through 3 months together as a class, such issues pose a problem to a unity of the class. It is my sincere hope that we will be able to stick together as a class through thick and thin for the next 1.67 years (pardon my exactness), and not let such issues create cracks in the bonds within the class. And besides, we shouldn't let such problems affect our future. So... 08S6A forever! haha that felt good
- Anonymous, who is just one of you
P.S. Anyone who has any opinions/experience/thoughts to share should do so on the tagboard as this is an issue the class needs to address together.
P.P.S. The opinions above are humbly my own and not based on a general consensus.
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