Life is characterized by choices, isn't it? Seems like my whole life has been a string of choices - some good, some bad, most of them really difficult at the time, and pretty simple in retrospect.

I remember choosing secondary school options in p6. I still wonder what it'd have been like if I'd chosen to appeal into RGSS. Knowing that I'd probably have gotten in, but that for once I'd be at the bottom of the intellectual ladder.

I think choices get harder as we grow older. Or maybe it's not that they get harder, but that we think more, and therefore it becomes harder to make the choice because we complicate it so much. The p6 choice was pretty simple, and I made it in like 2 seconds, after my results. ("Nah, no need to appeal. So mah fan. Not like I don't like SCGS anyway." XD) In sec 2, it was a completely different story. I spent months agonizing over the choice of schools, swinging from one end to the other and back again in a week, week after week. Drew up so many pros-and-cons charts, and talked to dozens of friends, seniors, mentors, family members. Haha.

Then in IP2, when again there came yet another choice, it was a long and complex decision-making process all over again. So many hours were spent poring over the options - it was the first time I actually dared call a teacher and ask for advice. The dumb thing is, I made the right choice in the end, choosing physics and chemistry, which I ended up really enjoying. But I wasn't even agonizing over the right dilemma at all. Haha. Well, I suppose in some sense, it was the right question - "should I take econs?" If I look at it that way, then I gave the wrong answer (no instead of yes). But at that point the question to me was, "Should I take econs or chem?"

It wasn't the dilemma that I should have been considering at all.

Then of course, uni! Haha. Again, weeks and weeks over which university, which faculty, which course. I still can't believe that I almost went into Engineering - funny how when you have made the choice, it becomes so clear that you wonder why you ever had such a problem deciding at all, but before you make the choice, everything's so murky it's hard to see two feet ahead.

I was brought back to this whole agonizing decision-making process all over again by David and Mummy going through the whole to-go-or-not-to-go (I say GO! =P) thing. Haha. I remember two years ago when Daniel was choosing which secondary school to go to. I think he made the right choice, and I'm really glad for it.

From the ...conversation... that I'm overhearing, though, David might not be.

Hm. I want to tell him to listen to Mum. Because I made the mistake of not listening, two years ago, and now I regret it quite a bit. But some things people just have to figure it out on their own.

Well, we'll see.

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