Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hear, Talk, Prepare and now, Experience

Time flies, been two months since I last wrote an entry. Two days to enlistment and so here we are. Over the past four years in Australia, listening to your friends' experience in NS, talking and preparing for it. And now, it is my turn to acquire my own experience. I guess, after two years, me too can share with people my experiences. Been receiving numerous 'briefings' on NS, on what to do and what not to do...basically advices here and there! Just then I realised that I cant bring all these advices with me. Too much advices is going to clog up ur brain and the functionality of the nervous system will be undermined. Come to think of it, I am coming to terms with what my friend Mark tell me, just dun care about advices, just do it and get the hand-on experiences. Advices are valuable and beneficial but if it gets redundant, one will hold back their actions and any future executions will be deferred and suitable timing to execute will slip thru our hands. Analysing reflects how cautious a person is, but excessive analysing will lead to indecisiveness and actions that were to be executed will be held back.
In the past, I always defended my position of being over-analytical of things thru the point of making astute and informed decisions in life as people usually argues that with over-analytical comes indecisiveness. However, coming to think of it now, I realised that there come to times that a person has to be decisive. A person decisive enough to act swiftly, but the feat will be whether this person is able to make a good decision while being decisive simultaneously.
My conclusion is that a person has to strike a balance between decisiveness and being analytical. The bottom line for this argument in my inner self will be to be think in an astute and informed fashion, and not frivolous ones. At least, this is something I need to equip myself with for the future to come.
There are just so many question marks in my head, and this is one of them. But I believe for this particular question, NS will be the place for the answer to be sought. Till then, on with NS preparations..Tata