Dear Boys,
Hope you are enjoying your well-deserved rest now.
I would like to leave some food for thoughts here:
"Discipline without direction soon becomes a drudgery. In sports, if the athlete does not have a target in mind, he will become listless and futile in his training. As spiritual disciplines train us to become like Jesus, we need to have a purpose before us. It could be to develop character, or some virtues or fruit of the Spirit in our lives. A purpose could be seasonal so that we will not become stagnant and bored with just life. As individuals, discipline defines and shapes our behaviour."
I hope that you would be able to see discipline in a different light, and that can be used to build you up as a person.
Just like a sportsman stays disciplined to train for his competition, a person with self-discipline can set out and achieve his goals easily. In chinese, there is a saying: 有志者事竟成. Most often than not, we also need discipline to stay on the right path. For example, you stay disciplined enough not to commit crimes so that you would not be arrested.
Training for a competition is tough and training to be disciplined requires effort as well. Thus, people may choose to go for the easy way out. I urge you to reconsider the benefits of being disciplined whenever you are tempted to choose the easy way out!
Thus, by grasping the essential part for this skill during camp, i hope that you will continue to build on your self-discipline so that it will be able to put you in good stead for your future endeavours.
Mr Bay
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