brilliant article you got here, I truly appreciate the time & effort you took to produce this! ((:

What got you started working with Where there be Dragons? (love the name by the way)

I’m from a really traditional Chinese family in conventional Singapore, parents’re so angry. So, may I ask a few questions which they raised in defence? If you don’t mind, the questions are in the following paragraph. Thank a ton Tim, this would be immensely appreciated’

1. How would you be more certain of what you want after one year? One year may not be enough, and anyway only after you enter the university and try out the different courses would you be more certain.-The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn the path for everyone is different there are alot of careers noone even does yet but the few who dare to make thier own path will succeed if they follow their sense of success and not what media and family, and freinds tell them. i think alot of people have a different of idea of what success is. to my friend adam he is successful when he can wake up and paint and he may or may not sell his paintings like he wants to but his responsibility is to make sure he doesnt slip into a dream world where he thinks he doesnt have to pay bill if he has them. sorry this one is so long.

2. Why can’t you multitask, and do volunteering or whatever you want to do alongside university? That’s what all my friends daughters are doing, and they are doing so well in university.-most people can do both but college and freinds time combined your days will be gone, so its not the same as getting lost in something you have passion for which few have the opportunity ot do.

3. You’re going to enter society one year later, and you’ll be severely disadvantaged in that way.why would you be disadvantaged entering college a year later but with more direction than the possibly(majority if sheltered youth) college students do. you will be a year behind but they will switch majors, which can extend your stay in college or finish and not be happy in a career but lack passion. college is the best time to get to know you and those around you. learn how the world works establish you own morals as well as decide which ones you want to have. i joined the navy right out of high school( actually i joined christmas of my junior year and left decmeber that year i graduated. ) i am glad i did because im going to enter the college set with goals and life lessons that hold alot of people  back. i have done alot of stuff on the list i said earlier.

The answers may be obvious to some of these questions, yet I am unable to phrase my answers as eloquently as you have in your article above. In earnest appeal to you, I express a sincere wish to receive your reply.i knw im not him but life is so worth figuring out. you culture an parents shouldnt decide you to be a doctor or lawyer or veterinarian, that should be up to you. so im all for the gap year. im going to college next year with life lesson i will remember forever and experience to be a positive influence on anyone i meet. i know i will mess up more but im all for those mistakes coming my way cause there is beauty in socalled coincidence, and it leads you to your destined fate. i do agree that you can do both college and other stuff but colge cost so much i dont want to wast any of my money on something else if im being charged as much as college students are. good luck in the future. if you want to reply  you can reach me at mlperry90@gmail.com. thank you! (:humbly,amelia