Thursday, October 18, 2007
The world is superficial, said the Doctor
11:39 PM
"Don't you agree with me? The world is superficial" said doc Dennis Chua.
I can't agree more,seriously
I finally had my Tetanus Booster after like how many years? I was like super humji lah, i mean, it was rumoured that Tetanus shot will shoot you to death because of the excruciating pain that your body will feel once the needle pokes through your delicate skin.
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever". psk, the needle went through my skin and the doctor smiled.
"Who said that? Do you know? " the doctor asked me. *blank face* was what i showed him.
What a relief! The Tetanus shot was nothing lah, seriously, and with such an entertaining doctor..I really felt nothing.
" So where do you wanna go after your A'levels". Hmm, I pondered and said " I want to be a psychiatrist" I will enter NUS Arts and Social Science and take up Psychology.
Wait a min! At that moment I just felt like digging a hole and bury my head, nonono, my entire body *wow that will need a real big hole in the ground*. GOSH! I want to be a Child Psychologist and not Psychiatrist! The doctor laughed.
"So why Child Psychologist? so specific?" I dunno, children aren't suppose to enter into this world and suffer. The children need us, like how we need them. They will be groomed and cultured and grab hold of the baton that is being passed on to them from the older generation. Perhaps, the recent documentaries,books and films that I've watched, that discussed the issue of children being sabotaged into War and are being trained as soldiers, to be specific, as killers, just struck me hard. What will they end up when they grow up? Who is going to give them the support? Who is going to help them walk out of the life that haunts them day and night? They have a future.
What about the rising trend of child abuse? How are they going to live their next 70-80 years with the scars and stigma that plague their mind and soul? They're innocent, but they became victims of the dangerous world we're living in now. They really need us, like how we need them.
"You need to lose some weight.I was 120kg, had no friends,living in depression and the world is superficial, don't you agree with me?" said the doctor. I agree,absolutely. I've seen and experience and got a taste of what it is like to be fat, have low self-esteem and till the extent of living in depression. The world is indeed superficial, if you're good looking, you win almost 50% in any battle. Believe it or not, it's true. Some of you might argue and claims that " no lah, I'm not like that de lor, I don't judge people by their covers". Think again. Be frank with yourself. Every time you start shifting away when an obese person sits beside you in the train. Every time you see people with big thighs wearing slim cut/skinny jeans. Every time you see a horizontally challenged person ordering mountains of dishes at the economical rice store. What are the very thoughts that run though your mind? and then you ask yourself again. Is the world superficial? Do you judge people by their covers?
The doctor really inspired me. 120kg boy to a 62kg man. Gosh.
