Disappointments

It's been a relatively bad and rocky start to the year.

And I only need more episodes to sour the prospect of a better year.

It is said that when you love someone or something, it will return to disappoint somehow somewhere sometime. It may sound like a bleak and pessimistic insight into love, and it may well be so, but there is some truth in it nonetheless.

I don't recall scolding my class or feeling as disappointed as I felt today. I'm not quite sure why I felt so heavy-hearted as well. It's not, perhaps, the late and absent submission of work but the realisation of how lightly they take my presence and my instruction - more importantly, my concern. Odd ... it sounds narcissistic yet so true. Of all 3 classes, it had to be my own that chooses to throw caution to the wind with such care-less attitude. All this, after I tried to draw the parallels of "The Return of the King" to their own lives.

This is perhaps the trials and tribulations that is so often lauded. In some ways, it is similar to loving a person. I only hope that this episode awakens them from their seemingly unperturbed slumber.