Hello everyone!
This is my first time in my 19 years of life to join a welfare group visiting the Boys Home. Perhaps, i can be considered one of the youngest newbie to join everyone with a similar passion to serve in this area, helping the young guys out there who had steered to the wrong track due to a moment of folly. Indeed, it was a great and enjoyable experience to interact with them, teaching them the various subjects that they need help, and it's not just I who taught them the academic subjects but instead in the process of our interaction together, they had taught me alot too. Everyone makes mistake inevitably, and it really takes alot of courage to admit our wrongdoings and be willing to change and turn over a new leaf. Every kid that i take on, i would be sure to ask them how they ever end up here...and they would state their various reasons which are usually the same. And, i asked them- " why would you want to do it since you know it's wrong?", almost all of them would reply that they did it for the thrill of it and they really really do not know the seriousness till they end up serving their time in Boys Home. I guess it's really the time away from the usual routine of a school kid and the home sick-ness that many feels as well as the loss of freedom that made them reflect upon the mistakes they had made. But above all, many of them would just tell me they were still young when they commit the crime and now, just only one year apart, they are more mature now and finds it really foolish to do what they had done and felt very regretful for their actions. Hmm, it got me thinking, that sometimes we did many things that are unpleasing to the people around us and we took the freedom that we have for granted. Many of them are suspended from school, yet we are dreading school even when we could study and meet our friends out there freely. Well, let us continue to inspire the kids that we always have a choice to make the right decision in our life journey, provide them a hope that they can look forward to, befriend them so they can have a mentor they can look up to and may our smiles and laughter as well as the life lesson and experience that we instill in them subconsciously by our words and actions bring joy to their seemingly monotonous life!
Hooray! May everyone be feeling happy and smiling and remember to cherish the people and things that are around us!! CHEERS! :)
Signing off..
Huishian! :)
