https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/peek-life-chee-soon-juan-050517946.html

I haven't really been keeping up with the general elections this year, but I stumbled upon this post regarding Dr Chee Soon Juan. Quite an old post though. Regardless of whether you are pro-government or anti-government, everything that Dr Chee and his family has gone through and sacrificed (as a result of him being an active opposition member over these years) is definitely worth admiration. Both his wife and him have doctorates, you wouldn't have expected them to end up living in a small apartment with three of their children. He could have been able to provide his family with more comfortable lives but no he chose the difficult path, but a path that he deemed right.

Tbh I don't know everything about him as of now, about what he did that caused him to be jailed, but what really resonated with me were his words:

"I'll tell them I'm bankrupt because I was sued, in very simple terms, and they come around and understand. They know and accept it," he says. "I don't hide it from them, it's not like it's a shameful thing. It's how you deal with it. They understand."

Despite what he has been through, Chee said it was every single experience that has made him the person he is.

"Some (decisions) turn out to be the worst ones ever in life, (and) you look back and say, why did I do it in a certain way, but if you didn't do it, you wouldn't learn from it.

"So in a sense you don't look back and regret because you'll find they were very valuable teaching moments, if you will… This is who you are… and if you do learn from it, you become that much better for it," he said.

It's pretty much what I believe in. Which is similar to the title of this blog: Amor Fati. It is a Latin phrase (I actually got to know about it from one of Epik High's song title hahaha) which basically means the love of one's fate. Fate, it's a complex concept, but how I define fate personallt is everything that has taken place or will take place. Sure, you contemplate when making tough decisions, you require a leap of faith to do something, but when you eventually do it, it's all part of fate. So yeah, basically I believe everything is a part of fate. In other words, the phrase would then have the meaning of loving one's life, which is along the lines of Dr Chee's words.