Friday, December 01, 2006
As usual, our lives revolve around emotional events. Mine too. There's this thing that happened last Monday, something that I had resolved to blog on but somehow, never got to it. Here it goes..
Life at camp is quite good. Well, to a normal person it is. Good food, nothing much to do, relaxed climate all over the camp. But the bad thing is, we are currently being squeezed into a 10-men bunk, though supposedly we can move to commanders' bunks which are more spacious. Which is exactly what I asked my CSM.
He said okay, and so we started discussing who gets what room. And here is where the trouble crept in. Nobody wants to share a bunk with this guy called P(obviously not his real name, and has no link to it because I am not telling you who he is.). P is really a hard fella to hang out with, for reasons to numerous to be brought out. But obviously someone has to share bunk with him and nobody in their right mind would volunteer. As developments went, I got 3 others to share my bunk already, but realised that one or two of my good friends would then have to sacrifice if I went ahead with the arrangement. A mental torment indeed. Should it be a case of every man for himself, or a case of betrayal? A bit of resembrance to the story below huh?
I can never do the right thing. Rationality always get defeated by conscience. Nobody wants to sacrifice but in their minds, there's always a voice telling them not to let others suffer. This is a weakness of humanity, but also what makes us human in the first place.
In the end, we all just went back to share the big bunk again.
-YF Chen
