Give me wings and I'll fly
Have any of you seen the new Petronas Deepavali advert? If not please see it on TV. It’ll tell you something.
Somebody told me, “Give a child a penny, it’ll be gone. Give a child a dream, the child will ride his dream and soar through his (or her) life.
As a child I could not understand much what it means. I keep on wondering what the heck that was as I only see it face value. Now, I know what it means. As the Petronas Ad goes, I see how the father works very hard just to give hope to his son. Somehow or rather, it reminds me of my father. His words keep ringing in my skull. How he always tells me he is not a wealthy person who can leave me all his wealth when he dies. The only thing he can provide me at that time was a tool for me to live my life. The tool was my education.
True enough, through my education, I could see that his words and I am not even being envious to the people who have more then I have (wealth wise), but I have seen majority of them crashed and burned. As for me, I have to struggle a little and do not get much… but that’s life…
But with what my father gave me, I am able to survive and hopefully fly one day… now I think I am at V1 (term that pilots know). But in any flight, there is a possibility of going down and survival thought me to stay alive, I need a parachute at least or if I am a good aviator, I will be able to glide the plane down.
I used to wonder why I was not born in a wealthy family or at least why my father is not rich like some fathers. But now I learned that being wealthy is not all. May be you have extra cash to spend here and there but wealthy does not mean you are happy.
Some may be lacking in the TLC department. Some other didn’t even get TLC. I am lucky as I got enough TLC I supposed. I got more or less good education and as time goes by, I think I learn how to fly….
Somebody told me, “Give a child a penny, it’ll be gone. Give a child a dream, the child will ride his dream and soar through his (or her) life.
As a child I could not understand much what it means. I keep on wondering what the heck that was as I only see it face value. Now, I know what it means. As the Petronas Ad goes, I see how the father works very hard just to give hope to his son. Somehow or rather, it reminds me of my father. His words keep ringing in my skull. How he always tells me he is not a wealthy person who can leave me all his wealth when he dies. The only thing he can provide me at that time was a tool for me to live my life. The tool was my education.
True enough, through my education, I could see that his words and I am not even being envious to the people who have more then I have (wealth wise), but I have seen majority of them crashed and burned. As for me, I have to struggle a little and do not get much… but that’s life…
But with what my father gave me, I am able to survive and hopefully fly one day… now I think I am at V1 (term that pilots know). But in any flight, there is a possibility of going down and survival thought me to stay alive, I need a parachute at least or if I am a good aviator, I will be able to glide the plane down.
I used to wonder why I was not born in a wealthy family or at least why my father is not rich like some fathers. But now I learned that being wealthy is not all. May be you have extra cash to spend here and there but wealthy does not mean you are happy.
Some may be lacking in the TLC department. Some other didn’t even get TLC. I am lucky as I got enough TLC I supposed. I got more or less good education and as time goes by, I think I learn how to fly….
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