Wednesday, October 21, 2009
First time waited 30+mins for a freaking bus in NUS, and its with jamin :S tsk tsk u brought me bad luck la jam hahah... joking joking..
I proceeded to miss my designated landing point by 1 stop through falling asleep and when i wanted to get off asap, the bus took a 15minutes detour cos of road closure ahead =_=
Then when i thinking of taking cab after i got off the bus, my night got worse when i waited 5 MINS for a freaking traffic light red man to turn green after pressing the button =_=
Almost resigned to taking cab home, bus 90 came rolling by and while contemplating whether to take a gamble, i thought, "Why not?"
Then the night took a major U-turn as the also-detoured bus 90 allowed me to alight at potong pasir mrt for a smooth straight bus ride home..
Like wow, how did i end up in potong pasir mrt in sucha weird manner? But the whole journey took 2 hours, starting from the time i left the lounge with jamin.. However (damn, qet...) sometimes small incidents like these are quite worth the effort to ponder through and digest some food for thought (damn, mno...)
Lesson #1: Life sometimes just dont go your way..
I didnt expect to wait freaking 30mins for a damn bus ( and i didnt expect to wait with someone like jamin HAHAH joking lah...), i didnt realise i could have overslept and missed by such a huge margin, i didnt think i'm that 'lucky' to encounter a huge detour that costed me 15mins of my time wondering what the heck had juz happened..
But really though it sounded very 'duh' kind of statement, or should i say BOOMZ, most of the time we alway dont expect, dont realise and dont think that things can go wrong.. As murphy's law state, things that can go wrong will go wrong.. Depending on how optimistc u are, stuffs that happen outside ur expectation can either make ur life more interesting, or more stressful on the other hand.. More importantly is really more about how we tackle it and whether we have the courage to face it head-on..
Lesson #2: Just when u thought that ur situation couldnt get any worse, it did
Remember in my short story my situation got worse 3 times, each time giving more impact on me than the previous, until i was actually quite turned off and decided to take cab as a quick one-off solution but a choice with a heavier opportunity cost (damn, econs!).. Also quite a 'duh' statement, but its worth thinking about the amount of times this situation happened in our lives so far.. Some are minor, like for eg slipping down on a pavement, then realised ur iphone is smashed as a result, and while u angrily thinking of where to send ur iphone for repairs u got robbed so cleanly u only got a spoilt damn iphone left... others are more serious; i had a personal encounter which i guess i'll leave it to the other day.. But really, can we do anything about it?
Lesson #3: When situations get so bad u feel demoralised, along comes a hope and a guiding light to the rescue
The story had a rather weird hero: a damn bus (damn, why am i using so many damns? damn... i think i'm pretty tired now) initially i thought of a quick one-off solution to settle the stuffs, but luck came in a form of the bus, which i sort of gambled cos the bus came before the taxi anyway, and somehow its detoured route brings me to potong pasir mrt.. Pure luck really comes when my 142 bus arrived after i crossed the road opposite lol...
Many times when things start to get really low and we find ourselves just soley wishing that things can get better; sometimes we pray for a miracle that never comes.. If i still remember a quote from reading a book, the source of miracles comes from nowhere else but the human heart.. If i had succumbed to frustrations, i would most probably be waiting for a taxi and give the bus 90 a miss, potentially giving up a chance to save up to 8 bucks.. Even in times of despair, human hearts should never waiver and give in to whatever the situation leads; in fact it is precisely these situations that give us a training scenario to be a stronger, better person.. To learn from mistakes and carry on moving forward, shouldnt that be one of our aims in life?
keep on running, cos the nike huamn race is this saturday and i undertrained as expected =_=
//Brandon struck at
11:05 PM\\