Yourself?

Thoughts and thoughts

This blog is going to change it's name to Metamorphosis and Resurrection. I thought of the name while making coffee this morning.

It's like renewal and rejuvenation today, I woke up to blue skies on a January morning and felt normal again. So strange, like a bolt out of the blue, I suddenly found myself. It's such a cliche isn't it? Finding yourself? But when you're lost, and searching around desperately, gripped by fear and panic of losing yourself, it's such a strange realization to wake up and know that you are here. That the panic drove you further from who you are, not anywhere nearer.

Yourself is one of those strange paradoxes in life. I thought Yourself lay in VJ, then I went to RJ to find it, after one round of trying to be a councillor, trying to be humanitarian, trying to be a musician, a poet, a writer, a scientist, After coming back one full circle to RJ, RI, at Bishan again, after being offered Basic Japanese for 10 bux for 10 days, you've got to wonder where the hell I've been going to all this while.

And then you find it one January morning. In the Army. Serving your country.

You find it when you're doing the most mundane of things, while walking up the hill to your workplace.

And it goes like this.

"The expertise of professionals lies in their posession of unique specialized skills which can only be acquired through extended education and experience. Unlike other crafts which can be mastered by learning the techniques only as they exist in the present, professional knowledge must be intellectual in nature, build upon its own history, and be preserved in writing. Professions therefore require their own institutions to record, develop and pass on this knowledge,. When the professional fields of practice and education are seperated, contact between the two are maintained through meetings, conferences, journals, and the circulation of members between training and operational roles.

As professionals maintain a monopoly on vital expertise, they also have a responsibility to practice their skills in order to benefit society. When they fail to meet this responsibility they can no longer practice within that profession. Furthermore, because those skills are so valuable, pure economics cannot determine the professional's compensation for service. Rather than desire for economic gain, a sense of service and duty to community must provide the primary motive for entering and practicing a profession. Finally, the profession itself must develop an ethos for fuilling it's reponsibility and dealing with it's clients." J. Bradford, IDSS, January 2005

I knew it, I'm priceless.

When I read those two paragraphs, I was struck by the common thread between that paragraph and Naruto. What profits men to sacrifice their lives for a cause? What about saving lives. It's so funny how a paragraph about soldiers, also applies to doctors.

Can two sides of the divide do exactly opposite things the same way?

posted by Downhere. @ 10:26 pm