baaaa...

it's slightly interesting to note that people I know (or rather, know of) are starting to appear in ST. Latest instance involves an article in ST in which several young s'poreans (including a Ms. Jean Kua; not too sure if it's the Jean Kua that I'm thinking of cos I didn't read the article) are asked to describe their wishes for the nation. Their answers apparently provoked some guy enough for him to write a scathing letter to ST forum denigrating these young people's aspirations as 'selfish'. And this in turn caused a flurry of irate responses, including one from a certain PSC scholar in cambridge (go read STonline if u want to know whom).

yup, I'm getting older, alright. Now my peers are appearing in the news, making their opinions known and trying to define their vision of how things should be. Yours truly, though, is content to sit in the shadows and watch the drama unfold, in my accustomed role of anonymous spectator.

don't I have my own beliefs about life? Possibly. Don't I want to share them, proclaim to the huddled, unshriven masses: 'Come hither all ye of little faith, and hear the Gospel of Lit!'

not really.

don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that I'd prefer to live the life of a deaf-mute hermit in the most remote region of pluto. (Occasionally I do, but not always. Anyway, this is beside the point). I just don't fancy the idea of standing up to tell everyone: this is what should be done. Telling my friends, sometimes (after all this blog does exist). But the world? Rarely.

why? Several possibilities come to mind: general reticence; lack of confidence/conviction; apathy; laziness; cynicism; personal belief that best way of getting people to understand an idea is to let them come up with it themselves; etc. Some of these reasons overlap, some might be superfluous, still others might be meaningless.

at the end of the day, I guess I'm just a herd animal.