rowlandanthonyimperial
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
03:29
Anonymity and Unknowability,
I may not know who Mr. Anonymous and Mr. Author Unknown are, but surely, whatever comes out of their mouths always becomes immortalized in the world of quotes and sayings.
I have been making an occasional quote-hopping over the internet these past few weeks, for a reason uncharted inside my head, amidst the fact that the demand for schoolwork has been increasing exponentially.
I blame ACSI(IB) for this. haha. Blaming in a good way. The first batch of IB students in ACSI did so fantastically well in their IB exams, that they shook everyone in the Singapore IB world out of their bums. Now, as SJII has started its first year in IB, they want us to do the same feat. I understand the unfathomable desire to do well. To exceed expectations. I understand the horrible workload. Actually it's a good thing. But, I'm still too emotionally unstable to stand up without having to hold onto the rails inside the IB train. I feel like alighting at the nearest stop to take a breather. I feel like escaping the confines of the train. I feel like pushing the emergency button. That green button, red button, whatever button that is.
Well, back to the real topic. I've been reading quotes about promises.
A promise made is debt unpaid. ~Robert Service
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie
Promises are like crying babies inside a theatre, they should be carried out at once. ~Norman Vincent Peale
But I think the best quotes ever are either from Mr. Anonymous or Mr. Author Unknown.
Like this one:
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown
See?
Anyway, I just made a promise with Nalaka and Savy, and it's the biggest promise I have made so far, because it involves my emotional aspect of life. You know, when you promise not to do or not to feel something that you want to do or feel so badly. When you can't just sit still in one place because that something keeps on recurring in your mind over and over? When you can't just keep it to yourself and want to tell other people how much, how badly, how seriously you want to express that something?
That's the promise I made. I just committed an emotional suicide. I'll be going nuts soon.
