My Confessions as a subpar student

I certainly hope that you can overcome your pain because I see a young man who has a LOT to offer his country even if his country doesn't realize it. I am reading about Susan B. Anthony who struggled for DECADES to get women the vote and died without ever realizing her goal. Yet, because she did not give up ("Failure is Impossible" was her motto) women like myself can enjoy rights and privileges she only dreamed of. So you don't know what your work will lead to even if you don't see the goal. Likewise Dr. Martin Luther King said just before he was shot that he might not make it to the Promised Land with the rest of his people but he could see it from the mountaintop.

But please don't give up on education. Because not having an education makes it easier for those in power to control you. Look at all the groups that have been denied education. Betty Friedan talked about the "feminine mystique" and how women just surrendered their power and autonomy in the service of a false god. I believe that there is a "disability mystique" which is just as firmly entrenched. If you give up on education and give yourself to partying you are only confirming the world's opinion. I believe that you will be a leader someday in the Singaporean community--in some ways you already are.

This comment couldn't have been more timely. I was about to drop out of my current course, currently not recognised by the Singapore government but recognised elsewhere. Maybe, eventually, my degree will be recognised as it is. I'll continue to keep on learning as much as I can, in school and on the job.