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Monday, April 4, 2016
Service learning (2/4/2016) It's always an eye-opening experience every time I go to a new estate to offer basic health checkup to the elderly. My heart gets broken each time as stories are being told and I am reminded how fortunate I am, truly. A man in his thirties/forties was telling us his story that he is a two-time cancer patient, and has battled with 18 chemotherapy sessions to cure cancer. He had this sparkle in his eyes, the zest and positivity in his movements that seemed to gesture that this doesn't seem like it was a big ordeal. But I'm sure it was, a huge one in fact. He talked to us with such sincerity, that he really needed help and he was happy that we are helping to take his blood pressure and hear him out. I wonder - how many of us fret and worry about things that are often from a first world society? We complain of the MRT breaking down frequently, school, grades, friendships and the list goes on. Let's admit it, these things aren't even a bit life-threatening. Not devastatingly serious that will cost us our lives but perhaps just a little bit of time (out of our life time, I'm sure waiting for a couple more minutes for the MRT to come isn't really gonna take much) and energy to do better. The thing is - the things we often complain CAN be made better. But this man who've gone through cancer twice, worries about the prospect of another cancer occurring and yet another hefty amount of fees and deterioration of health. His life is put in risk and he doesn't know how much time he has left. I'm reminded, let me put my energy into worrying for things that truly matter. We are too privileged to fret about a bad grade but how about no education for children in other less privileged countries? I (We) are just too fortunate. We need to start appreciating and stop the incessant rantings. Posted by wen xin at 8:05 PM
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