today marks a personally significant day.

food for thought: how well do you really know your friends/those around you?
to me, if two people have never talked about their personal issues and the unpleasantness in their lives (i don't mean simply having lots of homework, by the way)...i don't know about you, but to me that doesn't really seem like much of a close knit friendship.

i'm really abit too emotional (by a guy's standards?). but i guess, if there's anything that's really important in this world it's having emotions and really feeling for things. if we live this life as a cold empty vessel, what good does that bring, be it for ourselves or for others? we need to start treasuring the friends around us, even if there are only a few school weeks left. it's never too late to start caring.

how emotionally strong are we as humans? we are each plagued by our personal demons, some of them unthinkable, unimaginable to another who has only heard, but not truly, realistically faced them before. we are fragile beings that feel hurt just as easily as the person beside us or as the person on the other side of the world. not showing your hurt does not mean that you are not hurt. it is a fact - we need love to keep us going. life without love just withers away.

and i feel...relieved, somewhat, after my own sharing. it's just like what my friends said, sharing brings about healing. and with Your love my healing is assured.

during civics today when we were asked to share our dreams, i guess i didn't just make something up. i really do want to help alot of people. nothing beats being able to help make a friend a little bit better, even just by lending a listening ear and being there when the person is down and out.

it's abit unfortunate that counselling isn't so ideal, since i figured that the "guests" are those that end up there by referral from disciplinary authority usually.

something that really impacted me today as well was what mrs lim's student said when she asked him about his dreams. he said he wanted to be a doctor but thereafter looked down and shook his head, saying how his grades wouldn't be able to make the cut.
how many times have we simply written something off with just a moment's worth of contemplation? how many times have we written ourselves off because we think we're not good enough or we won't make it? if we don't even give ourselves a chance, who will? life is full of choices and closing the door on ourselves is one of the most regrettable and saddening things one can do.

it's alright if someone else gives you up.
but it's not alright if you give yourself up.

anyway, thanks to the long national day weekend, i might have a chance at properly catching up on my sleep and getting decent amounts of work done. to work for Your glory!

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"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."
– 1 John 4:9-11


Evermore - Planetshakers


I will sing
Of the mercy of the Lord
And I will shout
Of Your faithfulness oh God

For there is none like You
Seated in Your majesty
Holy One I come
To worship You forever more

You are my God my life my all
And I live for You alone
I am Yours evermore
Heaven and earth will shout Your praise
The wonder of Your name
I'll proclaim evermore

Evermore
Evermore

And I will run
Into Your presence
And I will sing
Sing forever