Thursday, February 28, 2008.

It was right after all.

RI is a horribly competitive place.

I am not so much a victim as a perpetrator, but I feel it is time I change. I admit I have increased the competitiveness of this place, and now in 4B marks are the no. 1 thing, which shouldn't be the place.

Friendship, and the joy of learning, should be the rightful no. 1.

We come to school to learn. Less fortunate people want to go to school, to acquire knowledge, to broaden their understanding of this wonderful world. School was (and is) a place for the acquisition of knowledge, and Man strives to gain more knowledge.

Yet, what is life in RI all about? Who gets highest, who gets lowest? Life somehow revolves around 1 word: Marks. The problem is, RI people realise that, and thus competition occurs.

It is super-irritating if one person you consider a friend tells you that all he is worried is his marks.

I hate such competition (though I personally feel no stress), because how do true friendship ever develop under these conditions? If life only revolves on marks, what is life, but pen (and for ivan, correction tape) and paper?

The spirit of schooling has long been destroyed. It's ok to mug. But is it ok to focus on marks so badly till you choose to make friends with clever people or ignore friends in a time of need?

Friendship in such a competitive society is hardly everlasting and true.

I long for the days of fun and happiness, where true friendship was helping people to the best of your ability even when you are in trouble. I long for the days of freedom, where marks were non-existent. I long for the days of joy, where we could sit down anywhere discussing anything we like, except marks.

I miss the days of old, which has long been left behind.

True friendship is but a dream.

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