If I hadn't gotten into Henry Park and met those people I spent three years of my life with, I quite possibly wouldn't have turned out the cheerful, humorous person that I am. Then again, if I had stayed in my old school I might have even aced psle; The top score of greenridge primary (my old school) was 282 or something, and I was beating all of them hands down till the year I left to go to henry park primary.
RI has definitely changed me in unfathomable ways. It has created my identity; one that would be very different if I had gone to sji as my parents had insisted. I don't know; I might have been a better person or worse.
Nobody can guess how any one event changed your life. Every small thing that has happened this year has changed me. I've been thrown into new experiences. I've had a wonderful array of people enter my life. I've been challenged. I've been given responsibilites. I've been loved, I've been hated. I've been given new identities. I've been forced to make decisions that shape my life and who I am. I've been made to reflect on my own values and what I stand for. I've been challenged to form opinions of the people close to me.
I've been handed my life as a half-formed lump of clay and I've shaped it with every decision I have made.
Coming through this year, I've sustained scars, no doubt. But I think I like the new Kannan better than the old one. I see confidence and faith in himself within the new one. I see him creating values that he choses to live by. I've seen him decide what he is going to do with his life.
This year has given me a lot of wonderful memories that I'll cherish all my life. I'll never forget Sorkalam. I'll never forget Nava and PJ. I'll never forget Savaal. I'll never forget Karthik shaking my hand and hugging me on stage and handing ICC over to me. I'll never forget Oct 26.
I will never forget pooni, nava, puva, divya, sutha, melu, latha, shaf, siva[shankari], suriya, farzana, shyama, sinddu, kuna, siva, aruna, lakshmu, priya, suadi, kash : all the wonderful new people who have entered my life. If you're not on the list, apologies; I know that whoever you are, you have definitely impacted my life this year.
So buhbye, 2005! We had a great deal of fun, no? Too bad 365 days is all we could spend together. Thank you for all you've given and taken away, 2005.
kanna wrote at
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