Friday, December 01, 2006
♂ there is no justice...
Success in life depends a lot on just being in the right place at the right time. For example, throughout this year, I've met 2 different kinds of people. One person worked his ass off for his honours project. From what I observe, he came in to the lab earlier than me, and went home later than me. I think he spent like 10-14 hours on average doing work everyday (including weekends). He practically put his body, heart and soul to this honours year. In the end, the project results were crap. It's not his fault, it's just that his experiment failed. His hypothesis is not true. However, he got quite a good mark. Not remarkable, but good enough.
Then, we look at the 2nd person. This person does quite some amount of work as well... much less than the 1st person though and also less than me. I believe throughout this year, all that this person has done is counting cells. She practically only came for a couple of hours to lab, look at slides and count cells. However, she belongs to a big part of a huge project. Nevertheless, the majority of the experiments in the project were done by someone else. However, it turns out that the project came up with some very exciting results. What kind of marks did she get? Let me just say that she came out to be one of the students who got the top marks in the faculty.
Which brings me back to my point. Success in life depends a lot on being in the right place at the right time. Let's face it. Life is unfair. Mean, bitchy, and just plain evil people often gets better in life than nice, hardworking and decent folks. I can honestly say the same about myself. I am very fortunate to have parents who are rich enough to support my studies here in australia. However, I also know some of my cousins in my home country who weren't as fortunate. When I look at them, i know that they are much better than me both in their intellectual capabilities and their determination. However, they are forced to stop their education after high school in order to work and help support their family.
How do i feel about this? Am I going to be bitter about it? You bet I am. I feel that there is something very wrong about this. Instinctively, I believe that people who work hard should be much more appreciated. However, in the end. People mainly appreciate results. They don't really care how much work you've put in. They just want to know what they can get out of it. People who work hard and still fail, they call as failures. Believe me, there are those out there who keeps on trying and trying but never made it. There are those who doesn't even try, and made it.
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