FREEDOM!!!

The screeching cries, desperate pleas of these men as they rose to battle.... "FREEDOM!!!!!!".....rushing towards the "red coats" and to their imminent deaths...

Yes, you've prolly seen it in one of the many scenes in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot".....and i rmb it from a half-life mod that i used to play about the American Revolution...

For all young men who had no choice but to live through their twenties during the below mentioned, (Cultural revolution, Great Depression, World war I & II.....etc)....they were unlucky enough to be born in an age where even if they were to survive with not a single scratch.....their lives are forever doomed...by the time the economy picks up, when peace has returned....the are prolly in their late 30s, 40s....full of strife, their prime spent during the darkest of times... a lost generation of youths, traumatised, fearful, without a shot at success.....


I apologize....but please take moment to consider your position today.....That we are surrounded by opportunites, that we have nothing stopping our way.... Opportunities waiting to be leveraged and claimed.... Without a doubt, there will be obstacles in the way....but....Our biggest ally: Faith & Audacity....and our biggest enemy: Lack thereof

I write this today, because for me and many others that i've spoken too or met have pledged our lives to obtaining what we want......whether it be hedonistic materialism, or selfless social work.... Our time on this planet has to be worthwhile.....(28, 251 days - a human being's lifespan)

Like many others, ride a motorbike, pursue arts....& dance, travel the world, make plenty of investment returns, build a harem of women, become a suicide bomber, die a martyr.....they give up!...Only a few ppl, insanely audacious enough ever makes it....and its not about the recognition, validation one receives from others that defines your success.....We define "success" in our own terms.. (pardon the corniness)

Like they say, "there is a thin line between Genius and Insanity. I have erased this line." - Oscar Levant
(I wonder if this explains why quite a number of artists are "expressively" gay....just gay is not enoguh)

We are here to take a stand!...nobody can stop us, not the voices of your pathetic aging parents past their prime telling you what to do from their passe experiences that brought them inevitably to their reluctance of you procuring your success. And instead ask you to walk the well-worn path, full of security, a stable job, a wealthy husband, a big CPF pension and everything else except Freedom to associate with the world in your own terms....

Not your submissive wimpy dissonant petty old cynical nihilistic friends (pardon the overabusive use of bombast to describe insecurity).....can tell you that you are "becoming a different person", someone that is "too serious to hang out with"...."too weird" or "too try-hard"....
It is even inevitable that one would look weird or try-hard initially....as that is how you figure out balance through calibration..you'll know where to tone it down only thru first-hand experience

Honestly speaking, without struggle and rebellion in your formative years and taking that risk of losing everything for the sake of your passions....you'll never grow.
I shut them out COMPLETELY....family, friends, all that negative energies..

LKY has his point.... but of course, we are spoilt, not hardened...
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/17/interview-with-kenneth-lin-15-year-old-singaporean-who-started-a-petition-against-lee-kuan-yew/
However...not totally useless..this is battle against ourselves.
Blame our education system and policies for succeeding in churning out obedient working-class citizens


Rmb....there are many like you along this journey....i've spoken to a few china students(as young as 18) or even the filipinos that come here to work...they give up their home and family to make something of themselves...

Shall end here...enough pep talk...a part of me does still feel insufficient...however i didn't write this today just for myself....but also for the ppl around...

Give up the comfort, or give up your future.