When you were little, have you ever wished that you could just blink your eyes and then immediately grow older so you could do so many other things that you couldn't do as a small kid? Well, if you never did, you must be abnormal. Research has proven that no matter how happy and carefree children seem to be, they are always hoping to grow older. Strange, huh? And strangely enough, adults wish that they would not age. These human wishes clearly contradict. So, why the change of mindset? When will humans ever be satisfied with what they have? If they wanted to be older when they were younger, shouldn't the wish remain and shouldn't they be happy when they do grow older, just as what they wished for? Makes sense, doesn't it?
Well, for one thing, the part about the research... I made that one up. Just to pull your leg (I find this idiom strange). But as a child, I did regularly wish I was older, much older. Lousy childhood, you say? Well, not quite. I just longed for the freedom and envied adults who could do as they please, go where they like, sleep when they want, eat basically anything and most importantly, not get scolded constantly. One thing that I forgot that adults do is, work. And when I was old enough to come to the realisation that adults have to work and pay the bills, I stopped having those wishes. And for a substantial number of years, I was fine (not that I was never fine, I always was fine), and I led my life as normally as any normal person would and I was content with being a girl and a growing teenager. And it all went okay. UPSR, PMR, terrible Form Four year and SPM passed. And the dreaded SPM results was better than what I expected. So far so good, yes? Sure.
And then came the STPM years. The only public exam where I actually scored a couple of C's. Mind you it wasn't so bad, I still had the letter A in my string of results, heeeee. So yea, feeling confident that I had done well in the SPM, I decided to undertake the STPM. I didn't do as well in this exam and failed to secure a place in a local university. (This is starting to sound like my memoirs, or something.) Anyway, I did get into Brickfields Asia College, in Brickfields, as the name suggests (People actually ask me where it is) and am comfortably pursuing my law degree now.
Oh yes, I did work for awhile after my STPM, and then I started having those wishes again. Working wasn't so bad after all. And I sold off a huge pile of my STPM books for more pocket money. And I was able to purchase my own clothes and other stuff I always wanted with the money. The feeling of being independent is undescribable. I need the feeling again (I'm jobless now since I'm studying).
So, I've been having those wishes a lot lately, the feeling of wanting to be older, and to be able to live alone with a partner, having my own house, own car, going where I want to, buying what I want to. Wishes, just wishes. And, I've been telling my younger self, ''This is how old you wished to be at that time? Why couldn't you have wished to be older?!''
If I did make the correct wish, to be just a bit older than what I am now, maybe, just maybe, time would pass faster, and not at this super slow-mo snail-pace that it's currently at. So, I guess, the wish I made when I was a kid did come true after all. Fast forward 15 years and I'm now living the age that I wished to be in all those years ago. And to think about it, all the years passed by in a flash. But now I'm wishing again. Wishing that I am older.
Well, for one thing, the part about the research... I made that one up. Just to pull your leg (I find this idiom strange). But as a child, I did regularly wish I was older, much older. Lousy childhood, you say? Well, not quite. I just longed for the freedom and envied adults who could do as they please, go where they like, sleep when they want, eat basically anything and most importantly, not get scolded constantly. One thing that I forgot that adults do is, work. And when I was old enough to come to the realisation that adults have to work and pay the bills, I stopped having those wishes. And for a substantial number of years, I was fine (not that I was never fine, I always was fine), and I led my life as normally as any normal person would and I was content with being a girl and a growing teenager. And it all went okay. UPSR, PMR, terrible Form Four year and SPM passed. And the dreaded SPM results was better than what I expected. So far so good, yes? Sure.
And then came the STPM years. The only public exam where I actually scored a couple of C's. Mind you it wasn't so bad, I still had the letter A in my string of results, heeeee. So yea, feeling confident that I had done well in the SPM, I decided to undertake the STPM. I didn't do as well in this exam and failed to secure a place in a local university. (This is starting to sound like my memoirs, or something.) Anyway, I did get into Brickfields Asia College, in Brickfields, as the name suggests (People actually ask me where it is) and am comfortably pursuing my law degree now.
Oh yes, I did work for awhile after my STPM, and then I started having those wishes again. Working wasn't so bad after all. And I sold off a huge pile of my STPM books for more pocket money. And I was able to purchase my own clothes and other stuff I always wanted with the money. The feeling of being independent is undescribable. I need the feeling again (I'm jobless now since I'm studying).
So, I've been having those wishes a lot lately, the feeling of wanting to be older, and to be able to live alone with a partner, having my own house, own car, going where I want to, buying what I want to. Wishes, just wishes. And, I've been telling my younger self, ''This is how old you wished to be at that time? Why couldn't you have wished to be older?!''
If I did make the correct wish, to be just a bit older than what I am now, maybe, just maybe, time would pass faster, and not at this super slow-mo snail-pace that it's currently at. So, I guess, the wish I made when I was a kid did come true after all. Fast forward 15 years and I'm now living the age that I wished to be in all those years ago. And to think about it, all the years passed by in a flash. But now I'm wishing again. Wishing that I am older.
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