(and beyond)
Recently, I've been allocating some time for some friends to meet-up for lunch/tea/dinner/etc. I kept thinking that I might not have enough time to spend for socializing once I'm sent to school for practicum. Perhaps I should mention that I needed these meetings for 1. escapism from studying hassles 2. socializing purpose 3. good companies for ideas exchange.
We were just two (or three) people sitting at one round table with some good food and drinks talking about worldly problems with worldly ideas and solutions.
We talked about politics...
- of bribery and cheat sheet, biased media and loss freedom of speech, the relevance of projects and societal gaps, economical changes and effects to the people -
...education...
- on the relevance of nazir invigilating teachers at school, on how trainee teachers aren't given financial supports for practicum, on educational gaps in boarding schools, on language barriers among races, on mandatory and optional subjects, on standardization of school system -
...marriage...
- the early marriage trends and its relevance, readiness, age factors, religiously speaking -
...younger generation...
- the Korean cultural invasion, the local cultural corrosion, Western culture being brought in to merge the local culture -
...family, future, responsibilities and others.
After all those meaningful insights and (what we thought were) brilliant ideas to change the world, to make the world a better place with better mankind... and in the end,
we were just two (or three) people sitting at one round table with some good food and drinks talking about worldly problems with worldly ideas and solutions.
Unheard. Insignificant. Almost inaudible.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss event, small minds discuss people." I don't see how relevant is the quotation if there are people out there discussing and planning all the great ideas and yet they still sound rather petty to those in power. Won't that be such a huge waste?
