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Hailing from the southern part         A visionary with a positive
           Self-IdentIty                                                                                                                                    of the country, I was told since       contribution to society? By all

                                                                                                                                                            young that we millennials are
                                                                                                                                                                                                   means! Count me in!
                                                                                                                                                            destined to do great things,
                                                                                                                                                            that we are supposed to be

                                                                        Written by Mr. Joshua                                                               leaders of the civic squares,          Except the magnificent pomp
                                                              Illustration by Gan Lin Kee Sr1A                                                              ranging from building cities,          faded into insignificant grind,
                                                                                                                                                            to influencing young minds,            day after day, year after year, as
                                                                                                                                                            and thus ushering the world            if I am the modern Sisyphus
                                                                                                                                                            into a new age of prosperity.          incarnate, helplessly rolling
                                                                                                                                                                                                   the boulder up the slope of
                                                                                                                                                                                                   daily grind to chase after a
                                                                                                                                                            Imagine that the new golden            mirage, only to have it escape
                                                                                                                                                            age is engineered by yours             our grasp and rolled to the

                                                                                                                                                            truly. How surreal!                    bottom. I found myself slowly
                                                                                                                                                                                                   morphing into a workaholic
                                                                                                                                                                                                   in various settings, from
                                                                                                                                                            It would be a complete lie to          legal sector, to education,

                                                                                                                                                            say that I was not at the very         attempting       to    invigorate
                                                                                                                                                            least captivated by the visions        meaning  into  my life  while
                                                                                                                                                            presented to me by the very            vying for success.

                                                                                                                                                            class of people who worked in
                                                                                                                                                            fields upon which I would not
                                                                                                                                                            even dare tread.                       Fate, it seems, has deemed my
                                                                                                                                                                                                   name  unsuited  to be  written


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