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Working at Paul's really allowed me to mix with people from all different walks of life. I mean really, i honestly think i've been too wrapped up in a bubble that i don't seem to understand a lot of other things. After hearing some of my colleague's stories, it really woke me up. Maybe what i'm facing now isn't complete shit, and what i'm doing now might actually seem so hard for some people to achieve. I shouldn't be moaning and complaining when there's others out there who want it so bad but have to go through so much shit in order to achieve it. I don't know any other way to put it......

I had a conversation with one of the full time girls working there today, found out she quit school when she was 14, never did Os and she's 19 now and she wants to go back to school but can't because money is the issue and there is just too much to consider.

Had lunch with another full timer, asked her why she decided to do F&B since this sector is really very demanding and such. Found out she has always dreamed of opening a cafe of her own, and thinks that in order to run a good business, starting from scratch would be one step in the right direction. She's going to SIM to complete her 13 months diploma and going to Manchester to finish up her management degree. She's doing all this just to achieve that dream she has always wanted.

Towards the end of my shift, one of the full timers was on break and we started chatting. From how I found the work here, why I was quitting, why he quit his previous job, why he quit school. Also, he mentioned that he suddenly realised that school is important and not completing Os was not right. He told me he wanted to go back to school, complete Os and really straighten his life out. He regretted not studying, he let his parents down and now he wants to go back to the right track again but he admitted that he didn't know where to start. He looked so shagged from all this workload. Too much for a 19 year old. The only thing i thought of at that point was to help me search for any private schools that would take him in at this time of the year for the O levels prep course and I told him I believed in him. I don't know how much he wants this but I guess there's no harm trying to help him go back to school. I guess after everything he went through, you gradually lose faith in yourself and maybe the people around him lost faith in him long ago and sometimes it just takes one person to believe in him again that he might be able to succeed. Well, I hope I'm not wrong. Having hope is a good thing, right? Even if it's in a person I barely know for a week..... the smallest thing might make a difference.

I don't even know if i make sense or not. I'm just typing anything and everything that comes into my head right now and I wish I could be more coherent and expressive.

This has been a rather lengthy post...........