From The NST

I find this news article very confusing. It involves Arts students being offered No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for furthering their studies in medicine in a now derecognised medical school. The Higher Education MInistry has obviously offered these letters despite knowing the proper qualifications needed to enter the medical field. A student in the Arts stream has certainly not studied the subjects necessary for qualification into medicine. If you notice, most medical schools look at subjects like Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Additional Mathematics as prerequisite subjects to pursue medicine. How can these certificates be issued when the involved students clearly were not qualified for medicine? What happened? Should someone look into the matter more intricately? Is this error repeated for other medical schools as well? Information can be scarce and the truth may never be known.

Marriage, the penultimate journey displaying the love that binds two souls together. Not many can explain the nature of love and the chemistry that surrounds this wonderful feeling. Only experience can give one the best definition of love. It is a time when the heart speaks and the mind follows. It is a period when time stands still. Such love often culminates in a bond called marriage when two individuals commit to each other … for life. However, is love and a marriage vow sufficient to keep two individuals for life?

Divorces are becoming more common and it saddens me to think that two individuals ,that were so deeply in love not too long ago, can be so bitterly spiteful that each is willing to let go of years of memories shared. Each justifying the move to break a vow that was made at the beginning of the journey. Future vows then become less tangible.

It has often been mentioned that marriage is a gamble. Perhaps it is like a box of chocolates and you can never tell what you are going to get inside. Or can it not be a gamble? Can it be more of an investment? Can it really be the discovery of a better half that has been the missing piece all this while?

Seeing loving elderly couples being together for decades creates a sense that a marriage can truly stand the test of time. It is when you can only see them as one is what defines marriage. They have withstood all trials and tribulations, surviving the tests that life throws in their path. Perhaps this is the greatest challenge of all, keeping a vow and defending the love that is often blurred with time.

Perhaps discovering true love is like finding a needle in a haystack. Or maybe love does fail and falter with the passing of time. One can only look to the heavens for guidance and hope that their hearts are leading them in the right direction.