I was reading the papers today and I came across this section where they interviewed university graduates. One question which was repeatedly asked was whether university truly provided them with the education they needed to face the real world. And the answer was no. Most of the valuable knowledge and experience they gain is through perseverance and trial and error.
I reflected this with my life. A students life, generally. I think just 10% of the knowledge students gain is through academic institutions, the other 90% is personal experience and mistakes, including perseverance. After all, we still have to learn from other people's mistakes because we cannot live long enough to make them ourselves. But no doubt, MOST companies (I believe I am not overstating it if i said ALL instead) look for paper qualifications as a stepping stone. They do not believe in the integrity of personal experience as not many have learnt very well from that bitter lesson and there is no concrete proof that they have if they hadn't known you personally before.
Basically, we are alone (apart from Him). We are alone in shaping our destiny. We are alone when we are sick (except for some family members). We are alone when we die. We face punishment for our sins alone. But we still care for others. Because we are alone. We want to care and feel cared because it is a lonely world out there. And we hope by caring, they will care back too.
Sigh.
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