Free will

This was what I heard from a friend of mine. The details of the story I may have forgotten but the effect of it is too strong to be drained away from my mind.

There were three girls who lived in the same hostel and went to the same course in the same university. All of them were taking counselling as their major and they have passed the course as scheduled together. Upon graduation, all three have picked up a different route from one another to move on their lives.

The first girl opted to further her postgraduate study in another discipline for she had been struggling and suffering throughout her course. There's a possibility that she might face the same outcome in the new field yet she's determined to find the way out.

Meanwhile the second girl who had also gone through the same experience as the first one decided to work for a company in a different field. Although there's still a certain level of stress at her workplace, she's doing pretty fine with her career.

And then there's this third girl. Instead of jumping into another arena, she strives to achieve her dream; the dream which had connected the three of them, and the dream of which the other two abandoned half way. Taking up social worker as her life-time career, it's her responsibility to handle tonnes and tonnes of social problems. She needs to be there to counsel depressed people who attempt to seek suicide as the solution of all their despair. Often she's worn out handling the heavy workload and responsibility when she finally calls it a day. While she may have saved tens of thousands of precious lives through her excellent counselling skills, she ended up finding herself miserable and depressed.

So, if you were one of the three girls, which route would you choose to travel on? I wish I would have the strength like the last girl to carry on my dream. Nonetheless, I find myself feeble and vulnerable to fight against this highly unpredictable world. Thus, I'm on my way walking down the second route, hoping to gain fruitful experience at the end of the unknown destination.