:: Quantity vs Quality... ::

today, i had a short conversation abt quantity vs quality with Perry, while on our way to meet the rest of the grp2 ppl. wow... was impressed by the great turnout of the freshies... 7/8, 1 strucked in nussu camp... well, dat's not the main pt, dat i wanna tok abt here...

this kinda reminded me of my past, when i was in my poly... i was a fren of the 4 of the major clubs in SP; CADC, CLS club, SPSU and CSSC... SAC, the building where housed these 4 clubs was filled with numerous amount of frenz... during my 1st yr, i sticked closely to CADC... till now, i would said most of my leadership skills were picked up from dere... then in my yr 2, thru the influences of some frenz, i joined the CLS club camp and easily became 1 of their MC... as soon as, the news of me being their MC spread... the distance between CADC & me widens... also, i created some doubts among some of CLS members, as i became their MC too easily within 1-2months being active and it was kinda of a torture for me. luckily, i was support by my own OG during the camp, Orion... after dat, my circle of fren within SAC din stop dere... i became as gd fren of SPSU and CSSC, thru tutoring 3 juniors of my course... and i hang ard with them quite often almost everyday... my remaining poly life were spent playing carrom after my lessons, then join them for dinner and back home to mirc with them again. thru joining so many clubs in poly, made me understand dat "in life, we can only have either quality and quantity, but never both.". even as a gd fren of SPSU, i can only stick closely with only a portion of their overall manpower, due to internal conflicts... as for CADC, i became a hi-bye fren to them... for CLS, my terms with them got very much better after i stepped out of the MC... till today, i still keep in touch with SPSU frenz but still our contact is slowly on the downstream...

i have been going for quantity over quality during then... as for now on, i will be going more for quality, this is the main reason why i sided totally towards CSC after attending CACS camp... only in CSC, i am able to find both quantity(just nice for me to handle) and quality friends... the whole club regards every members as its own family and the culture is very gd... everyone care and spare a thought for each other... i really felt the warmth and sense of belonging in CSC... people here do not backstrab and are quite honest with each other... yesh~! i am glad to be an Ethelonter...

i even told Perry dat over time... quantity friendships will be washed away from our thoughts and wat remains is juz hi-bye frenz... so quantity memories are too common to us and not able to engrave deep into our mind. as for quality friendships, due to the great amount of effort invested in to maintain it, it will stay in our thoughts longer and sink in deep into our heart...

the amount of attention and time of each person is limited, but the no. of parties to share is unlimited... we can only remember the people dat we gave in the most, longer over the common ones... whether the receiving party is appreciative and response back, dat will be another side of the story... also, over time... the amount of effort will accumulate and grow too... provided consistancy is dere...

+ BL updated @ 1:07 AM

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