Today, during IH lessons, at 10:05 a.m., my IH teacher and form teacher, Miss Yeo said, "There will be consequences for every decision you choose to make".
I agree with what she said to a very large extent. If we make certain decisions, we must be able to bear the consequences of those decisions. All decisions made would definitely cause a consequence. What we can do, is to do the right decisions in order to have a pleasant consequence. If not, the consequence might be unbearable for some. Such decisions do not have to be major or huge ones.
For instance, making a decision of which bus to take would also cause evident consequences. If we choose the bus that goes a longer route, we would reach our destination late, causing a lot of time lost. In my opinion, life is just like choosing which bus to take. There are four possibilities I can think of by using the analogy of the bus.
(1) Taking the bus which goes the longer route, we would still end up at the destination.
Though we would take a longer time to reach our destination, we would still reach it at the end. Sometimes, reaching your goals slower is not altogether bad. In the process, we can experience more things and learn valuable life lessons.
(2) Taking the bus which goes the shorter route, and reaching the destination faster than anyone else.
This route would be preferred by most, as we can get to our goals fast. I too like this possibility. However, when things do not turn out as good as we expect it to be, possibility 1 might not be a bad choice either. As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Once we have taken the longer route, we would, in the future, know the right bus to take.
(3) Taking a bus and alighting halfway before reaching your destination.
Peseverance is very important. Even if we find the short cuts in life, if we do not persevere and push on till the end, we would still end up with nothing. We should work towards our goals with all our strength, and not give up halfway.
(4) Taking a bus, alighting halfway, but taking another bus reaching a new destination.
Sometimes, when we realise that the goal we formerly wanted is not what we really want, I feel that we should have the courage to end it and strive for our real goals in life. However, I'm not encouraging everyone to keep changing goals frequently, as that would just cause us to fulfill nothing in the end. We should consider very hard and be very sure of our goals before we work towards them.
That is all for now, readers. This is only my opinion. Whether you agree or not is another issue. Do comment on this so that we can have a healthy discussion on this topic.
P.S. I hope that there is no offense taken by anyone because I was just voicing my view on what I feel that was quite meaningful. I know I drifted off from the quote, but I thought of the bottom part after hearing the quote, so I just wanted to share with all readers my opinion.
Just for more: "Meaningful Quotes"
Meaningful quotes might not just come from people who spend their whole day thinking of something smart to say. Meaningful quotes can come from anyone, anywhere and even anytime, be it when someone is feeling happy, sad or angry, when one is teaching students and it just naturally come out, or even when scolding students. I am not kidding. Many of these meaningful quotes can appear when a teacher is scolding students.
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I agree with your analogy of making a decision to choosing which bus to take. However, I would like to add a few more scenarios. The following is an adaptation of a story I heard on the radio in the past.
ReplyDeleteTo keep the story short, these were the main points of the story:
- Heavy downpour
- Mr Tan was late for work
- Flagged a taxi
- Told the taxi driver to take the shortest route to his workplace
- Taxi driver asked him, "Do you want to take the shortest road there or the fastest road there?"
If we ponder over that question, we would see that it is a very meaningful one. The shortest route may not always be the fastest one. If we have a goal in mind and want to work towards it, short cuts may not be the best option. The best option could probably be to work hard and persevere, which could result in us achieving our goal in a shortest time possible and in a meaningful way.
Thus, to achieve our goal in the shortest time possible (or any other factors for that matter), we have to take into consideration the different consequences that would result if we had made different decisions.