date: Sunday, July 22, 2007 @ 8:51 am
title: Journaling
This is an excerpt of my compulsory military journal:
Week 4:
I guess as the days in the driving course nearing to the end, everyone generally has begun to know each other better. Nevertheless, the like and the dislike of each and every individual in the team start to surface. People who are respected, people who are unwelcome, people who are not always noticed, such categories have gradually become more and more obvious.
I wonder if its all simply just bad first impression or realization overtime of characters clashing. From what I notice, its just the attitude that results in this segregation. Not the difference in education level, race, language or religion, it’s the attitude of treating each other. Some are considerate, but others, I am not so sure.
That is the consequence of living together under one roof and training together. Going through the same unreasonable situations and facing similar taunting difficulty, but at the end of the day, everyone has different learning experiences and outlook of their matters. Thus, resulted in different attitudes and behaviors. Even so, most are getting better in subduing their detestable nature, choosing a better approach in solving their resentment through better channels than on each other, unintentionally.
To conclude, week 4 is just like another day in my JC period when relationships between people either bloom or wither. For mine, I like to be the grass among the flowers. Always green, never changing in my colors, whether its in or out of season. Ya-right. Idealistic. That is what they say about me. But I am never ashamed to own up that part and parcel part of me.
Ideals are never made to be achievable alone. It is to be shared among friends and strangers.