Tomorrow is ROD day...after four years, excruciating years, and ecstatic years, years spent in sweat pain anguish in joy in camaraderie as well as hours spent together with the people I call platoon mates the very people that I both love and hate...if you guys have yet to notice my words are filled with paradox and this very well explains the dilemma that I have within me… NCC has never been always enjoyable but though we go through literally hell. Through the tough and rough turbulent waves of training…my emotions choke me by my neck whenever I reminiscence about the past I do not know whether I should scream and shout the frustrations within me or rather speak fondly of the memories I share with 20 other guys. Everything is fresh within my brain and being a Part A cadet (sec 1) and progressing through the system. Maybe I am tad bit sadistic but I have a strong believe that the tough and nightmarish things we went through is what I hold on most tightly to…maybe it is through this pain a bond built up between me and them, my platoon mates and what my PART A platoon sat has said we might not be real brothers but we will be brothers bonded by tears and sweat and now that at the end of my journey of ncc I realized that what he said cannot be any truer for now after the accumulation of this two ingredients which the trainings provided plenty of , I look back and this fact blatantly stares me in between the eyes.
NCC might not have provided a lot but I guess to many extents it is like the army. What we gain is intangible for I have learnt no new skills that can be graded however I believe I have learnt EQ (narcissistic but I feel is true) less arsehole but nonetheless I feel that ncc has harden me as a person amongst other reasons maybe it is how I dealt with the emotional and physical stress that ncc has placed me through feeling both stretched to the limit and on the verge of breaking where I learnt the term fatigue and pure exhaustion
NCC has definitely molded me as a person if not it has changed me. Though it does not deserve all the credit it has considerably shaped me destroying the optimism destroying the joy I see in this way changing me to a brutal pessimist and cynic. Though many would say that this is a negative subject I do believe it has served me well in terms of preparation for projects and expectations I place on people. Maybe I will blog about happier ideas and thoughts after the ROD ceremony but at least now I have found my reason to improve and strive to find the positivity within me and maybe just maybe undo the damage to character ncc has caused though the discipline I should keep….