One of my friend saw me the other day when I was on my way to the library. She asked me why am I going there because lecture will start soon and I answered to return this book I borrowed*showing her the book* and she looked at me as if I’m crazy(okay, I’m exaggerating). ‘But why don’t you just put the book in the bin?’ she said while pointing to the bin at the corner. ‘Naa, I don’t like it. I prefer to send it upstairs’, and off I went to the 5th floor, returned the book and meet her again downstairs. Still confused, she asked me why didn’t I just put the book in the bin, why troubling myself to go to the library when I can save my time returning the book just by simply putting the book in the bin? And I said to her ‘Well, I don’t know. I’ve always been like this. My friends said I’m weird too*I’m assuming she think I’m weird*, but I just don’t take shortcut’. Then she said ‘But you’re happy like that right?’ and I answered ‘YES’ and there’s a big grin on my face.

Well, looking back to my 20 years of life, I remembered myself as the one who always took the long path. I’m not much of a ’shortcut’ person. Well, not in every aspect of life but there’s a certain matters that best to be travelled using the long way instead of shortcut. Building trust is one of them. Let say if I was told to tell someone about something, I will tell the person what I was told and I’ll make sure that the person hear it from me and not from someone else. What I’m trying to say is that even if I have trouble finding the person, I will still not take short-cut for example by leaving a post-it note on his/her table or telling others(e.g: roommate, gf, bf, friends) about that stuff and ask them to tell that person. What if the post-it note was seen by another person, or that ‘others’ told ‘others’ about that stuff. Tension can be created and this will leads to drama. We do not know how sensitive or how secretive the issue is to that person, so never take things for granted. The person who told you trust you and thus it is only acceptable if we do not violate the trust by not taking the so-called shortcuts. And yes, I’m aware of SMS but hey, what makes you think that the person’s mobile phone are not with someone else? It can be that the person leaves his mobile phone while going for a jog and that someone else might have read the SMS that you send. Well, I know I read someone else’s SMS and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. So, please don’t take shortcut and also, don’t read other’s SMSes*note to myself*.

The same goes when you are doing your homework. People tend to borrow-copy-paste others homework and hell ya, it saves a plenty amount of time right? It’s a really good experience and how did I knew about this? Because for the past years, I’ve been taking this shortcut. Something of which I’m not during my earlier school years. I was once a geek who will cry if I failed to complete my homework in a given time. And no, I will not copy it from someone else because for me that’s not the way of learning. So what if I hadn’t had enough time to complete them right, as long as I did not take ’shortcut’, I’m still on the right track. Ow, how I miss the good old me. Now, I’m lagging behind my friends too much that I think I wanna quit because studying is not my passion anymore. See, this is why I hate shortcut. I think if I hadn’t start using this shortcut years ago, I won’t be addicted to it and I won’t be taking studying for granted. The once eager student has now completely vanished and I’m paying for my mistake now. Ever since I took the shortcut, the definition of studying for me is not to understand the concept anymore, but to memorize the concept. Well, it’s true when you are copying other homeworks right? As long as you know why he/she answered it that way, then you’ll manage to survive the year. That is when everything starts falling apart for me.

Well, there are more stuffs but I’m guessing you guys get the idea on why I didn’t take shortcut right? Well, for me it doesn’t matter whatever path you choose, be it the long one or the ow-I-save-so-much-time-and-energy path, as long as you reach the destination without harming yourself or others then everything is perfect. And yep, I will always and still take the long path as I’m much more comfortable that way.

p/s: if we do not meet halfway, then wait for me at the end of the road okay?