If my memory serves me well, this tittle comes from one of Aesop's Fables. The story is roughly like this. One day, a sheep was basking in the morning sunshine on the roof when a wolf passed by. The sheep took a glance at the wolf and was ready to ridiculed it, saying” Hey, my dear friend, it seems you are not that well. Are you going to hunt some locusts to solve your problem of the breakfast?” The wolf responded coldly, “Don’t be so arrogant, it is the roof that dares say this, you are just on the roof.”
This story suddenly occurred to me when many roommates of mine gather in front of the computer screen, speaking proudly, “Look, the ranking of the NUS in the world outstrips NTU that much.” All of a sudden, I didn’t know what to say at that time, just keeping silent.
There are too many comments on NUS and NTU surrounding me. Before I came to Singapore, someone told me, “If you can be assigned to the NUS, you will be rather promising.” So what? What if I were assigned to the NTU? I don’t know, nor do I care! I always believe it is who I am that counts. Not the height of the roof I am on. If I just content myself with that so-called roof, not trying to improve my ability, even I am on the highest roof in the world, it is meaningless.
So, what I want to say is “Be a self-knowledge person, and just treasure every minute you can control to truly make a difference.”
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