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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Stress for students



Singaporeans always find a new reason to complain...
Remove the PSLE?
Sooner or later it will a demand for a direct escalator system into university... Then what happens when you have no way to differentiate the general populous? You end up with a majority of unemployed graduates and underpaid people with phds.

Singapore IS very competitive and we have ALOT of graduates etc. But formal education alone does not determine a person's worth and using stress as a reason to remove systems is not enough.

As always you can choose to let your children take the chilled out path. Or you can educate them in a fun way to alleviate their stress. Again its back to work life balance and how you manage your own time as well as your children's time.

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120927-0000144/PSLE-is-needed-in-Singapore--PM-Lee

At the end of the day discussing a topic like stress, broadly, is as good as discussing a topic on happiness

Look at the happiest place in the world, Buthan

(Image source from http://www.happybhutan.bt/photo_gallery.php )

Do you want to be happy like them? YES.
Do you want to live like them with a super low wage and very low tech? NO (if u are online and reading this you probably have to answer no)
Do you want to go there for a holiday and feel the peace of the world? YES

Its only normal that we want the best of the world and remove all your worries. But the cruel reality is that life is just not so fair. You have to make the best of it and find that fine balance. You can never truly be that happy without a little sadness for comparison, and you can never feel truly motivated and accomplished without a little stress.

Well or you can also believe in reincarnation and pray that your next life will be born into some billionare's household or a sultan or king's child.... and that's a whole different set of stresses and problems altogether.

JJ

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