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It never really occurred to me why Mr. K had been quite insistent that studying in SMU be a really good idea for me. He knew I strongly disliked the culture there, after all. It's only when I met him again recently that I realised why, even when there was no mention of SMU. I'd told him about what I'd experienced in the past several months since we'd last spoken, to which he commented, "You're just like I thought you would be. It's a good thing."
He believed I would be able to put the SMU training to good use, becoming resilient without imbibing the same bitterness and cruelty that he sometimes observed in others.
To be honest though, I reckon he'd seriously overestimated me. 12 months ago, I had replied, "... but sometimes you break and never recover ..." Several lines of conversation later, he'd went, "oh."
He believed I would be able to put the SMU training to good use, becoming resilient without imbibing the same bitterness and cruelty that he sometimes observed in others.
To be honest though, I reckon he'd seriously overestimated me. 12 months ago, I had replied, "... but sometimes you break and never recover ..." Several lines of conversation later, he'd went, "oh."