Sunday, April 09, 2006
It really seems surreal, the feeling of closure, of ending another chapter of my life, just like that. Of course this blog is reflecting on the fact that next Tuesday is ORD. When many will celebrate, some will feel lost, one thing that many will not feel is indifference. But then this blog seems to be an exception. Nothing has changed, or has it? Two year in the order of things is but a drop in an ocean, a fiftieth of your life if u live to a hundred, roughly the time that one will spend in a JC. After all the hate, the anger, the sadness, the doubts, the tears, the blood, the sweat, what has changed?
It will be greatly disingenuous if this blog were to suggest that the years spent at a camp in a remote corner of a remote island at a remote part of the world is completely useless and valueless. However, the fact is that it is difficult to find the patriotism and the motivation to forgo precious weekends to walk around in camp, or to believe that we are protecting the nation by carrying overweight handphones around. Of course, these are experiences that are really once in a life-time, but some will argue that these are also experiences that we can do without.
Whatever the conclusion on the whether NS is really beneficial, it is always important to remember to keep the whole argument in perspective. The whole issue is not a matter of choice nor decision on our part. It was with alot of intimidation and strong arming that we are all serving NS, and we are all leaving, just like that, with out so much as a blip in the general order of things. Thus, indifferance is the eventual feeling that this blog feels. Which is sad, considering the enormous amount of money that is spent on the defense budget.
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