orangestory

Today's supposed to be a holiday. Well, every Wednesday is. My timetable has only 1 subject for Wed, which is Communication Skills 2, and CS2 on Wed is online learning! Woohoo! There isn't any need to come to campus on Wednesday, yea? But today, there was a group meeting for CS2. We planned to have it at 12 noon, coz Yih Long had his Law lecture that ends at 11. However, I came at 11:30 coz I was meeting Su Ling and Jing Yi first for lunch.

Arrived at campus, only to find Jing Yi with her unusual facial expression. She looked like as if she had just cried--all red, no smile, no laughter. I asked, "has Su Ling arrived?" She shaked her head. "She said she just woke up and she's not coming." ... Her voice was all trembled. I think she was somewhere in between furiousness and disappointment. Silence occurred for a while, until she read her latest sms, and showed me her handphone screen. I scanned through the sms which read something like, "Yih Long said change to another day." .. So this is it! We came to campus for nothing! Yih Long, the chairman, said that the meeting is moved to other day.

Jing Yi was furious. We had lunch though, however, this time, we were quieter than usual. Our conversation was mostly dominated with silence. Well, I did laugh and try to maintain the situation as comfortable as possible.

JY: You are not angry with them arh?
LZ: Why?
JY: Because they make us come for nothing!

I could not answer her. Why must I angry? Su Ling apologised and that's the end. Even though no apology came from Yih Long, that is understandable as he does not have our numbers. Just make sure that none of this would happen again in future. Call me too generous, but i really did not see a need for being angry. Perhaps they were kind of terrible for making us come to school for nothing but to have lunch, which obviously wastes our time, energy, as well as money, but being angry to your own friend who had apologised so sincerely is a little too unfair. You know you have wasted your energy in coming all the way to Tampines, why waste another energy in being furious?

I could be angry, but I chose not to. I learnt this value a few days ago from Paul in the Bible. He had a lottt of problems and troubles, and i mean it when i say a lot. What is more terrible than finding yourself being chased after by many people who were aiming to end your life? I mean, imagine to have yourself becoming the 'talk of the town', as in, your pictures are posted on the walls in every corner of the city with big, huge "WANTED!" above your head. His problems were far beyond what we are facing, but he chose to be calm and keep on praising God, his Creator. Being joyful is an action that is first started from wanting. It does not come to you just like that. You want it, you reach for it. How? Control your minds, change your way of thinking, try to view things from different perspectives. I can only think of 1 purpose on being angry: it is to let others know that we are upset. Su Ling knew we were upset; she promised to treat us lunch tomorrow. Thus, the purpose was fulfilled, no additional anger was required.

So, Jing Yi, if you are reading this, YES, you CAN choose not to be angry..
:):) smileeee... 'coz positive thinkers are winners.

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