today is my last day at my work place, and the last time that i'm going to see many of my charges for a long long time, and as for the primary six-es and a few of the older ones, perhaps that last time that i'm ever going to see them.
but i've learned much from them, and have been humbled with their real-ness, their warmth, and their acceptance, the way only a child with their innocence can.
and my only hope is that i've taught them something, some life lessons, that they will find useful in their life later on and that if they see me as someone who is half of what mr koh is to me (whom i tried to model myself after), i'd be thankful enough. really, i couldn't care less about the problem sums that i've taught them to solve, the english words that i've taught them to use but i truly hope, from the bottom of my heart, that i've impacted their young lives for the better, that they would do well for themselves in their respective lives. this was my prayer for them this morning, as i committed each of their lives, with so much still ahead of them, so much potential to fulfill, so much to achieve, to the Lord. i can't quite explain it, but i felt a burden for these young lives. truly, what can they not achieve if they set their hearts and minds to it?
and it brought into sharp focus of the wasted opportunities, the regrets and the mistakes that i've made and the scars that i now wear and i look at youth, with all its limitless possibilities, with both excitement for them, as well as envy for myself. and for the first time, i felt old - at 19 years of age.
really, this feeling is quite undescribable, quite beyond the capacity of the written word to express and i do not feel that i'm doing myself and the children any justice by continuing with this. this time, words fail me. but i'd just like to add, even though none of the children will see this, that i wish the best for each and everyone of them in all that they do, and most of all, that it had been a pleasure.
i hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow, and each road leads you where you wanna go, and if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose, i hope you choose the one that means the most to you. and if one door opens to another door closed, i hope you keep on walking till you find the window, if it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile. but more than anything, more than anything...
my wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small, you never need to carry more than you can hold, and while you're out there getting where you're getting to, i hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too, yeah, this, is my wish.
i hope you never look back, but you never forget, all the ones who love you, in the place you left, i hope you always forgive, and you never regret, and you help somebody every chance you get, oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake, and always give more than you take. but more than anything, yeah, more than anything...
my wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small, you never need to carry more than you can hold, and while you're out there getting where you're getting to, i hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too, yeah, this, is my wish. yeah, yeah.
my wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small, you never need to carry more than you can hold, and while you're out there getting where you're getting to, i hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too, yeah, this, is my wish (my wish, for you).
this is my wish (my wish, for you) i hope you know somebody loves you (my wish, for you). may all your dreams stay big (my wish, for you).