what do you do with a batch of over-achieving school-leavers who get 1st class with honours, are title-holders of several clubs and societies, are able in sports or whatnot and are unbelievably popular when all they do, is to be obsessed with being over-achieving, wrapped up in their own over-achieving realm, where the subtleties of life means nothing, when being self-centred is the way of life? how much can you give despite the volumes you get, when you become over-achieving, when you put all your heart and soul in being over-achieving and forget the world around.
i probably sound anal digging at over-achievers, probably sound bitter even, cos i'm not really an over-achiever but maybe i don't really want to be an over-achiever, not because it's unattainable (i still believe that if there's something i really want, i can get it), but because i really wonder, what can we do with a batch of over-achieving school leavers when they are only concerned with themselves and their standing in society. there is nothing wrong with being slightly self-centred, who isn't, but being self-centred to the extent that you neglect promoting the growth of others and society as a whole creates a regressing effect. you can expect the society to peak with the activities of these over-achievers, but i believe it will reach a plateau because there is no longer anymore synergy when everyone has expanded their own efforts for themselves, which incidentally achieves progress for the society as a whole, but when this individualistic effort is exhausted, there is nothing left for regeneration and creation.
but as usual, this is being too idealistic on my part.