'You know you wanna be where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.'-Cheers theme song

I went to two meetings yesterday, one was the Chemical Engineering Junior's meeting at lunch time (free Pizza and sodas) and the other one was the Muslim Sister's Halaqa after classes are done at Ford Hall.
It feels to good to participate in religious discussions after such a long eclipse from this arena. I made some more new friends today, 8 very beautiful Muslim ladies:
Israh, Nancy and Zaharah from Saudi Arabia,
Jaheeda from Turkey (Kak Ijah's lab partner),
Noreen from Pakistan,
Safar and Sarimah from Egypt.
I invited some other Malaysians to join me next time. I don't know how everyone's going to respond to this. Instead of turning Friday evenings into a cinema night, I think this is a better way of spending my Friday nights. It's cheaper and still more fulfilling. I want to do this every week. My classes finishes at 3.30 anyway.. so it's not like I have to go out again to join this event.
God must still love me.. every time I feel lost and empty. He always shines His light to show me the way. Human are forgetful, but once you do realise that you've done something wrong.. the first thing to do would be to change and shift back on the right track. And if you don't realise your wrongful ways and someone guides you to return to the right path, you ought to listen because in a way it is God's reminder to show that he still loves you. He wants to save you from the burning fires of hell. He wants only the best for you.
Yet, as people gets older they feel that they need not listen to advices anymore. They tend to rebel at the words of advices.
The question to ask is.. should you ignore an ex-convict if he advices you to avoid crimes ? Does it make any difference who is giving the advice? Would you accept and find ways to improve your faults? Or would you go and find a way to even up to the advisor cause you feel that whatever you do has nothing to do with anyone else, that nobody has the right to advise you on how to live your 'faulty' life?
It's amazing how people react.. and how others that have nothing to do with it react too..(especially when they only hear one side of the story)..
Like there's this one very quiet guy on campus, who always keeps to himself.. through observation, people makes assumptions about why the guy is such an introvert. Some might say that he has difficulty making friends, some might say that he thinks that he's just too good to join everyone else, some might say that his cynical and sarcastic attitude drives people away. There's a possibility that any one of the reasons above are right but no one would know for sure unless they ask him. Maybe he just likes to be left alone.. Conclusion: Don't judge a book by its cover-don't make assumptions through observation. There's always a logical explanation behind every incident.
If someone is making new friends with people from outside their little pod, it doesn't mean that they're transformed from their old self. Instead of being envious maybe you should follow the lead and see if it suits you. If it doesn't at least you can say "been there, done that!", and go back to your little pod feeling completely content that you've made your choice from experience instead of being an observer all your life.