Sunday, August 03, 2008
Just back from watching Money Not Enough. With a cup of cappuccino still fresh in my mind, it's a toss between blogging or doing D Square Y Over D X Square. The choice should be quite clear at 3.36 a.m.
Found the movie a bit depressing especially towards the end when the inevitable happen. I think the movie simply drum in the fact that one should plan well when they are of able body and mind. I can't stress the importance of health insurance and investing more. For our parents or grandparents who did not have the benefit of education and a strewn of instruments for them to build up their retirement fund, it's understandable that they don't have enough to retire even when they are reaching 65.
This is a fact that is bugging me. While the workfare bonus is a good incentive to encourage able S'poreans to work and earn their own living, I still feel that more leeway should be given to Senior Citizens who have contribute a huge part to the bountiful reserves that Singapore is currently holding on to. It sadden my heart whenever I see elderly who have to throw away their dignity trying to peddle packets of tissues. Ironically when they are staying in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
The Singapore Dream seems to constitute of a couple living in their dream landed property, with their own dream car, having loads of cash in their bank, having their own maid, kids in tow and credit cards in hand. Notice how all the above need money. Is living in Singapore basically a race against time to earn as much as possible while forsaking the slight moments in life which may give us more enjoyment than all of the above? It will be sad for our society on the whole if success is only measured by the amount of money one is bringing in at the end of the year.
Another thing that come to my mind now is relationship. Relationship as in Boy and Girl relationship. See in an ideal world, boy meet girl. Boy fall in love with girl. Girl accept boy. They start a family and lived happily ever after.
Problem is what if the boy don't have the above example as a reference for him to follow. What if he had seen with his own eyes the fallout of the marriage between his own parents. At an age when stigma is attached to single parent family. Boy will tend to be afraid of relationship. When all he can see down the road is the huge possibility of him living out the life of his parents all over again. Though he hope and pray hard for the best, it's simply a scar on his heart that he can't get rid of easily.
To the extend that he will not even dare trying to hold it in his own hands. For fear that he will only end up losing it. Yes. The fear is huge enough to deter him from even wanting to hold it. Though deep in his heart, he know it is time to look for one who he can talk to till his last breath. One that he can hold on to in times of need, offer a shoulder to when he is needed and simply an assurance to and from the one he loved the most. Even when he think that he might have found the one, all of the above is making him think otherwise.
This is in no way indicating that I have found the one yet. Just a summarize of how I feel towards relationship on a whole.
Labels: Life
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