Just Keep Walking

Hi.

So I decided to post (Note: Not restart blogging as I'm unsure of this blog's sustainability) because of this dude's words of encouragement 

Meet Bunny.

aka JJ.

Some of you may know I'm co-organising Selangor MUN with him and a team of students.

Some of you may not.

But that's okay. That's a story for another day.

Here's a story for today:

I am an extreme case for bad sense of direction. They say it's a disease that plagues most of womenkind but I'm quite sure not many suffer as much as me. 

Yeap, quite far from normal.

So on Friday, JJ & I had to visit Taylor's College Subang Jaya to check out the committee (debate) rooms for Selangor MUN.  Let me help you picture vehicle congestion in the Subang area:

Pretend the sheep are cars.

Finding a parking was like finding a needle in a haystack. Needless to say, we found our damn needle after going in rounds for >30 minutes... but we parked  far far away.

Now, had the destination not been in my direct sight, near or far, I would've gotten lost (almost daily prophecy). And I did. With JJ. *proudface*.  As usual, panic would ensue. We were already 40 minutes late for our appointment due to parking issues and we couldn't spare anymore time walking and getting lost.

Yet we did, and we ended up an hour late. Ironically though, the person we were supposed to meet ended up delaying the appointment by another 10 mintutes so PHEW! However, my biggest take-away from this mini adventure was something that JJ said

Just Keep Walking.

He told me this as we were getting lost. Being the worry wart I am, I couldn't help but panic and whine fervently "JJ, where do we go now?" 8OOOO. As if it were a matter of fact, he simply said "Just keep walking, Yau. We're bound to find it eventually." 

Well, he got his facts right- we did.

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The past week has been really difficult for me. I'll be honest- organising a MUN conference is no joke and I just happened to surround myself with the most difficult of circumstances. We're the first independent MUN conference in Malaysia cuz unlike any other MUN conference, we are NOT attached to any particular academic institution. We're just a bunch of teenagers from various institutions, all below the age of 18, who hope to reinvent what we love and turn it into a tool that can transform lives. With that, we have no credibility whatsoever. We're just 'kids'.

And it's hard. The long hard journey has rendered me to tears so many times. But y'know what, I gotta just keep walking. Looking back, I'm glad I unknowingly have. There were times when the possibility of our dream conference not happening skyrocketed mile-high. I felt like the darkest hours had finally dawned upon me, that after we had pulled into so many people into the effort, I'd need to tell them "Sorry, I've wasted your time." I felt crushed under its weight and fell to the ground. 

While eating all that dirt and crap, it wasn't long before human instinct to survive kicked in. It began with a twitch...and then a wiggle...and then a thrust..and then a roll..and then more rolls!  Eventually, I'd roll over someone's foot and look skyward towards a helping hand. 

You just gotta keep walking, y'know?

Happy Days Ahead,

Yau Hui Min