I have always been amazed and impressed when someone of my age has accomplished a lot in their life. What I meant from accomplishment, I do not mean accomplishing as in studies, which you have 4-flat CGPA and you are on the dean’s list. Well that is impressive too. But too cliché. So, NO. Not ‘that’ type of accomplishment. Oh. Well. That is an accomplishment too. Education is important. Well, what I really mean is the REAL deal of accomplishment, which in my opinion it can only be done when you plunge yourself into the working world or if your dad has a lot of money and he doesn’t mind giving you some or an accomplishment that not many have the guts to do and it is all about our will to do it.

I know someone; an acquaintance to be exact. He starts off with blogging. He blogs about stuff that he likes.  (As usual when it comes to blogging. You normally and mostly blog about yourself and your thoughts) And through his blog and since he has a lot of contacts with the entertainment world, he uses his blog as the platform to organize events such as gigs and become the paparazzi for underground and local bands in Kuching. His company also covers most of the events that are being held in Kuching, such as events like the annually infamous prestigious Rainforest World Music Festival. The acquaintance, by the age of 21 has become a CEO of an events management and entertainment company. And now I heard that he’s designing shirts!

There’s also someone I know. And now it’s a SHE. (I think) she was a senior. She is still studying, currently pursuing her degree at a local university. She goes to bed very late almost every day.  And that is because, during middle of the night when actually it is morning in the USA, when everyone is sound asleep, she trades forex. Yes. She is a forex trader and she is 22/23 of age. Hmmph. Forex trader. Forex trading. I know right? I know NOTHING about forex trading though I have heard of it. I have done stocks trading (on behalf of my aunt, with her account but I still don’t get how the system or mechanism of trading works.)  But forex trading? What on earth is that??

are they CANDLES??

A few days before, she has made a profit of USD510. USD510!!In ONE night!!Isn’t that A LOT??Let’s say she makes a profit of USD510 every time she trades and let’s assume that she does forex trading every night without fail. So, USD510×7 since there are 7 days a week…Calculate…Calculate…Calculate… She will get USD3570 per week. In a month, she will get USD14280 or MYR49000!! WOW.  A 22 year-old young lady and a student has an income of MYR49000 per month.  DOUBLE WOW. No wonder, when I was browsing her pictures, she was posing with her Louis Vuitton and Chanel and Dior handbags with below captions saying “MY FIRST PROFIT FROM FOREX TRADING”. And she bought those with her OWN money.

Apart from my money-making friend/acquaintance, there was also another person that I knew. She was a volunteer in a humanitarian mission. She joined an NGO and went to Gaza during her semester break with the intention of giving aids and helping people at the Gaza strip and also to see for herself the real situation happened over there. And she was there for nearly 2 months. A week later, after her 21^st birthday, she was killed when a huge military truck ran her over. And they claimed it was an accident when the truth was it wasn’t. Ok. Apart from the death part, what I admire about the girl so much is that when every girl of her age busy partying, shopping, get wasted and spending time hanging around watching The Hills, she decided to go for a humanitarian aid and relief mission, which in turn took her own life. Of course I do not want to die THAT soon. But what she did was so noble and makes people like me beginning to ponder on what I have done in my life that benefits the world.

When I heard of people of my age do BIG things AND accomplish them, I feel slightly ashamed of myself. These people make me feel like I have lived my 22 years of life doing nothing! Sometimes I envy them for being so lucky and being such an opportunity-grabber and most of the time they are not so clueless unlike me, who is most of the time indecisive on what I actually want and what I want to do in my life. I think my highest accomplishment so far is that I managed to come here to pursue my studies. And speak not-very-fluent German, of course.

Sceptics,err.. I mean, some people have the opinion that we are still young and we don’t have to worry about all these and let’s just focus on our studies and enjoy our youth life now and besides, why the rush? Well, I beg to differ. Not that we have to learn forex trading in an instance! Or commercialised our blog to start our OWN events management company! Well, time runs faster along with our age. My aunt told me that if we want to achieve BIG things in life, we should start the small tiny steps from now. Because at our age, we have less things to worry about and usually, opportunity comes at its best during our age. And I agree with her. There are somethings out there for us to exploit and in return benefit us right? We just have to ‘decipher’ them out.

It is true that we are still young and we have so much more to learn etc. And it is unquestionably true that education IS important.  And nothing can stand in its way. So say the sceptics, then WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME? When we have graduated? When we have start working? When we have kids? I’m questioning you and myself. Now let us all figure this out

phew.a long entry after for such a long time eh?