What did I ask?

Joel: Ei, do you usually take the bus or train to school?
Friend: I hate buses!
Joel: Did I ask whether you liked buses or trains? I asked you a simple question yet you did not know how to answer.

Was I too mean or was this okay? Sometimes we tend to give irrelevant answers to various questions threw at us. Like my friend, I wasn't interested in her thoughts toward buses she told me anyway.

I myself, am learning to provide answers properly.

6AM

Good morning, it is the first time for me in two weeks, waking up at 6 o'clock in the morning. Lived a rather spoilt life in the recent past. Now for the next 3 weeks, it's about discipline already. Clinical attachment for this semester starts today.

Looking out the window at this hour can be fun. The view of the flats outside, some households with lights on, others not. It's nice to see.

Those with lights: I wonder if they are schooling children, or adults who need to start work soon.

Those with lights still off: Are they still asleep or long gone already before I could look through my window.

A society is like a living organism. Cells form tissues; tissues form organs; organs form systems. Each person plays a role to keep the society going. Good people make a good society; bad counterparts will likely be rejected by it.

What functions will I serve in this society in the next few years?
Thinking now, I can first see myself looking through that window at different times of the days. Nurses work on shifts, you know? My cousin who is a nurse said the work schedule is bad for social life.

我愿意

Not my will

Some places you might not wish to go, some things you might not want to do. Yet you do.

The places you want to go and the people you haven't met for a long time; I may not enjoy going there and seeing them, but I do this for you. Travelling inconveniently(to me) for your sake, this is one way I express love and concern. Or fulfilling due responsibilities?

Hope we had a good time. I had moments of mine at 140km/h when your eyes were closed.

How thoughtful

I saw a woman today, whose husband is in an end stage of cancer, bedridden and suffering from multiple sores. The woman too, has health problems of her own due to old age. She has to take care of her grandson- a toddler from her daughter. Her other daughter is giving birth to a baby girl soon and she intends to place the newborn under the woman's care too. Those daughters do not stay with the parents, probably working.

Let the mother take care of their children all alone, not forgetting the helpless old man.