22 June 2011, Giving Up.
It has been a rather long time since I last did a review. Recently, I have been bogged down by so many things. It feels like there is not enough time for me to do anything at all. My days are only filled with studying. There is hardly any time left for trivial matters such as sports. Looking back, it had been so long since I last ran or played badminton. Every now and then, I will receive text messages from my coach, informing me of when and where the trainings will be held. Upon receiving those messages I asked myself why I am pushing myself so much. Why am I treating myself so harshly? Deep inside, I really want to go out there and train with my fellow mates, but I have been tied down. I am tied down by the responsibility- The responsibility of completing my work to the best of my capabilities. There are many times when I really feel like giving it all up.
I remember yesterday, I showed my completed product to my subject teacher with pride. I was so sure that I had done a great job in completing it. However, he shot me a disappointed look and told me that it wasn’t good enough and told me that the handle of my product was too simple. My heart sunk. The handle was exactly how I wanted it to be- Simple yet elegant. Sadly, it did not satiate my teacher’s expectation of me and I got criticized badly. I turned away and just left the workshop. The feeling was horrible. It was as though the whole world was against me. I went to the corner of the stairs of the building and sat there, thinking about what I had done wrong in the making of the product. I felt like giving up. I did not want it to continue any further. I felt that it was all pointless. I did so much and yet it still wasn’t enough. Maybe I just wasn’t cut out for the subject. Maybe I shouldn’t have chosen the course in the first place.
Then it suddenly dawned on me, that I may simply have been thinking too much. I did not want to delve any deeper into the problem. I started to think about the 6 tiring months that I have spent developing the idea of my products and the coursework. I started to hear those positive voices in my head again and reminded myself that if I were to give up right now; all my efforts would have come to nought . It was totally not worth it. I stood up and smiled to myself. It was then when I really knew how to go on and I will never ever give up so easily.
Later that afternoon, I went back to the workshop and started working on my product. I modified the entire whole top portions of the project. Initially, all it had as a handle was a small piece of transparent rectangular acrylic block. However, after hours of hard work, it transformed into a tai-light handle formed using a bent transparent dark orange acrylic rod. Now, my entire project looks like a fish- The type of fish which you would see in tanks, feeding on the defecates of other fishes. That’s right, it fitted my theme perfectly. My product was meant to be a dog-poo collector and I managed to enhance the purpose of my product. People would know immediately get a better idea of how my product actually works. Looking back, it’s really incredible what I can actually do when I am in the right state of mind. Should I have chosen to give up, I wouldn’t have made and created such a magnificent product! From yesterday’s incident, I gained insights into life. In life, you must never give up. Life is like a journey, a road that you are walking on. Although things may seem hard, and the road may be fraught with difficulties. But there is something that you will never know- you will never know what is there at the next corner of life in which you turn. You may never know that success is really so close to you. Success may be just a stone’s throw away- This is the hope and belief that will help us go even further in life. We must believe in it. So, in conclusion, I hope to share with everybody the importance of not giving up. When there’s nothing much more left for us to hold on, keep believing that there will be much beautiful things awaiting you, if you just hold on.
I remember yesterday, I showed my completed product to my subject teacher with pride. I was so sure that I had done a great job in completing it. However, he shot me a disappointed look and told me that it wasn’t good enough and told me that the handle of my product was too simple. My heart sunk. The handle was exactly how I wanted it to be- Simple yet elegant. Sadly, it did not satiate my teacher’s expectation of me and I got criticized badly. I turned away and just left the workshop. The feeling was horrible. It was as though the whole world was against me. I went to the corner of the stairs of the building and sat there, thinking about what I had done wrong in the making of the product. I felt like giving up. I did not want it to continue any further. I felt that it was all pointless. I did so much and yet it still wasn’t enough. Maybe I just wasn’t cut out for the subject. Maybe I shouldn’t have chosen the course in the first place.
Then it suddenly dawned on me, that I may simply have been thinking too much. I did not want to delve any deeper into the problem. I started to think about the 6 tiring months that I have spent developing the idea of my products and the coursework. I started to hear those positive voices in my head again and reminded myself that if I were to give up right now; all my efforts would have come to nought . It was totally not worth it. I stood up and smiled to myself. It was then when I really knew how to go on and I will never ever give up so easily.
Later that afternoon, I went back to the workshop and started working on my product. I modified the entire whole top portions of the project. Initially, all it had as a handle was a small piece of transparent rectangular acrylic block. However, after hours of hard work, it transformed into a tai-light handle formed using a bent transparent dark orange acrylic rod. Now, my entire project looks like a fish- The type of fish which you would see in tanks, feeding on the defecates of other fishes. That’s right, it fitted my theme perfectly. My product was meant to be a dog-poo collector and I managed to enhance the purpose of my product. People would know immediately get a better idea of how my product actually works. Looking back, it’s really incredible what I can actually do when I am in the right state of mind. Should I have chosen to give up, I wouldn’t have made and created such a magnificent product! From yesterday’s incident, I gained insights into life. In life, you must never give up. Life is like a journey, a road that you are walking on. Although things may seem hard, and the road may be fraught with difficulties. But there is something that you will never know- you will never know what is there at the next corner of life in which you turn. You may never know that success is really so close to you. Success may be just a stone’s throw away- This is the hope and belief that will help us go even further in life. We must believe in it. So, in conclusion, I hope to share with everybody the importance of not giving up. When there’s nothing much more left for us to hold on, keep believing that there will be much beautiful things awaiting you, if you just hold on.
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