3 years in NUS. The very last semester. A countdown of 3 months. 2 more months with Jupitans.
Tonight's the combined team gathering for floorball guys and girls, in conjunction with the IVP season's debrief. As much as floorball is the first and only team-sport in my life, it has made a difference. As much as I had despaired during the downs of floorball, as much as I lamented about my mistake joining a team sport - when it comes to the end, all it leaves are memories, laughter, tears and friendships. That was what I took home, what I learnt from my one and only stint in playing as a team.
Playing in Jupitans will be a fond memory to me, because I know I will carry on in individual sports in future, simply because I have only myself to challenge. Competing with others who are so much more talented at a same sport will kill me mentally sooner or later if I continue this way. Yet as tonight marks one of the more formal "good-bye"s we will say to one another, the sense of belonging stays and leaves a page of colourful experiences in my mind.
Only a group of people will know how that feels. For I certainly know how difficult it is to feel part of a team when one is an individual pitting against himself (and others, unknowingly/knowingly) in the arena. Both sides, I have felt.
Graduation strikes me, hard and deep, as I made my "speech" to the floorball teams. Everywhere I go I'm reminded that I'm stepping out into the working world soon. So many people I have talked to - they cannot wait to graduate - why hate school so much when you have your entire life to work? A student's life can never be replaced once graduated - no more late nights, no more free-days, no more team bonding, no more hard-core trainings, no more putting 100% of your time into doing what you always loved to do. No more of that.
"I didn't know you're graduating this semester. So fast." Indeed.
Tonight's the combined team gathering for floorball guys and girls, in conjunction with the IVP season's debrief. As much as floorball is the first and only team-sport in my life, it has made a difference. As much as I had despaired during the downs of floorball, as much as I lamented about my mistake joining a team sport - when it comes to the end, all it leaves are memories, laughter, tears and friendships. That was what I took home, what I learnt from my one and only stint in playing as a team.
Playing in Jupitans will be a fond memory to me, because I know I will carry on in individual sports in future, simply because I have only myself to challenge. Competing with others who are so much more talented at a same sport will kill me mentally sooner or later if I continue this way. Yet as tonight marks one of the more formal "good-bye"s we will say to one another, the sense of belonging stays and leaves a page of colourful experiences in my mind.
Only a group of people will know how that feels. For I certainly know how difficult it is to feel part of a team when one is an individual pitting against himself (and others, unknowingly/knowingly) in the arena. Both sides, I have felt.
Graduation strikes me, hard and deep, as I made my "speech" to the floorball teams. Everywhere I go I'm reminded that I'm stepping out into the working world soon. So many people I have talked to - they cannot wait to graduate - why hate school so much when you have your entire life to work? A student's life can never be replaced once graduated - no more late nights, no more free-days, no more team bonding, no more hard-core trainings, no more putting 100% of your time into doing what you always loved to do. No more of that.
"I didn't know you're graduating this semester. So fast." Indeed.