Life is just like a piece of glass - it is transparent and breaks easily. Nobody knows when our journey will end and what will happen to us tomorrow. 30 May 2003, at the Singapore General Hospital, was where it marked an end of my grandfather’s journey. This was his second stay in hospital during the whole 85 years of his life and no one, I believe including himself, expected that he will leave us from there. When he passed away, he was all by himself for nearly a week as no one was allowed to step into the ward due to SARS at that time. For the whole morning of that fateful day, I felt uneasy and couldn’t fathom the reason for the feeling. Eventually, the news broke at 1 pm when I received a call from my mother informing me that my grandfather had passed away. Was that my sixth sense? Till today, I don’t know. My grandfather’s journey has become a part of our memories while our own journey carries on. During this five years, I would say I am living my life in a more fulfilling and meaningfully way than compared to my younger days. I started to accept all kinds of challenges that come my way rather than my former self of escaping challenges all the time. I learnt that we should be accustomed to things that come into our way than choosing things that we like and escaping from things that we do not. There is no easy way out in life. We shouldn’t give up just because the barriers are difficult and progress is slow. We should take every step of our life as a challenge and with this, life will eventually become easier and we become more mature.Let’s not waste our life but let our life be more challenging and fulfilling!Below are Chinese phrases I use to spur myself ahead all the time: 经一事 长一智，不要退缩 得饶人处 且饶人， 心灵清澈，万事皆顺畅