I’ve always manage to see the positive in many stuff and while in the past I’ve always perceived gaining pleasure as something pretty extravagant and somewhat wasteful (despite my acknowledgement and acceptance of Economists’ assumptions that hedonism often accounts for individual actions even if they appear selfless). While in camp, I’m forced to look into the fundamentals of an ‘modern life’ and I find myself enjoying simple pleasures that I would never have looked at that positively if I had not been through camp life. These are things like:
Feeling really glad the sun is scotching because it means your clothes will dry quickly and smell really good
Soaking in the rain during training both because you’re feeling hot with all the physical activities and that you’re secretly hoping you would fall sick and get MC the next couple of days
Enjoy Tuesdays & Thursdays because camp emart is open and you can get Fruit Tips from there plus also because there’s western food at the cookhouse (although sometimes they’re not necessarily better)
Being able to stay in bunk alone to read and not hearing PSP noises coming from the beds around you
Seeing trainees’ marching and singing song while you stroll leisurely around
Getting your greetings acknowledged by those of higher ranks when you greet them; it really makes a difference how you would perceive those guys after that
Feeling happy about being able to wash your clothes when you walk to the toilet 20 metres away and realise no one is using the washing machine
Jeering at people when they walk pass the lousy TV antenna we made ourselves and causing an interference to the signal
Proud that you have the courage to voice the truth when you select the ‘Lousy’ option on the Cookhouse Survey
Chatting with mates about the ‘outside’ world and everyone’s ‘past’
Just plainly looking at the sky and wondering how nice it’ll be if you could bring a camera in to capture the clouds
Life can be really nice if you decide it’s so.
