This week's been filled with Communication Theories and History classes. Not to mention meeting with professors to discuss potential research projects I can take up for URECA. It's a real privilege that I've been given this opportunity but I'm just quite concerned with the fact that I'll have to put in an additional 10 hrs a week on average. I guess Bee hardly gave ma a choice. Or rather, she made the decision for me by handing me notes to read and a thick book on Bilingualism to familiarise myself with the topic. I kind of feel obligated because of the high expectations she has of me and I don't want to disappoint her.

This really makes me reflect on myself though. Just like what Jemin said, I'm always leaving the major decisions in my life to be made by others. Haiz. I'm such a people-pleaser, and I feel as if my human identity has been reduced just by that thought of my inability to make decisions of my own.

Anyway, thought I'd discuss something about the first written texts. The first texts were religious texts and they were hand-copied by monks in monasteries. When one ponders about it, the significance is really great. It just goes to show how sacred, how important religion was to people in the past. Spirituality was often the top priority. And, we really owe it indirectly to religion that people have literacy today. It's all because people in the past placed such a great value on spiritual things that they so very much wanted to read the Bible and other religious texts. Hence, Gutenberg's Bible sold like hot cakes and it motivated him to continue printing other types of books. This hunger for knowledge is a human attribute. It is what drives the education system today. It is what the greatest research institutes of our time are built on.

One historian well noted: “Intellectual pleasures give only a brief satisfaction, unless directed to a practical end. . . . Never should we stimulate the intellect merely to feed upon itself. Unless intellectual culture is directed to what is useful, especially to the necessities or improvement of others, it is a delusion and a snare.”—Beacon Lights of History, Lord, Vol. 5, p. 299.

Really, I can't help but agree with the forementioned statement. Many a times, I study and study and then pause to wonder why on earth am I studying os hard? How practical is the knowledge I'm gaining from my education? Does it really help me lead a meaningful life? Often, the answer is no. Thank God I have with me the oldest book of all time (and the very first that was printed too) - The Bible. In it contains the most valuable truths one could find - The truth that leads to everlasting life - John 17:3.

“If you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God.”—Proverbs 2:4, 5.

The knowledge of God... how seemingly unreachable... how easily obtained.