2008 is coming to an end. I want to take this time to reflect, organise my thoughts, embrace my emotions, and hopefully be able to move on.
It had been a bumpy ride this year, in terms of work and personal life. Quite a bit of falling down, picking myself up, falling down again ... I always remember what my ex-colleague used to say, "Everytime when you thought you saw the light and reached the end of the tunnel, it gets blocked."
Despite all those that had taken place, I still choose to believe everything that happens, it happens for a reason.
My career has taken a different route; my health suffered a little. I felt I had been to death and come back, with a different perspective, or rather, back on track.
If there is a lesson worth learning, it must is the truth that if I don't take charge of my life, if I don't plan for my own future, somebody else would. And most of the time, it will not be the best.
If there is something worth remembering, it must be the people I had met, the people that had touched my life, mainly encountered through course of work. To the 67 year-old driver who wakes up at 4am every morning to start his 12 hour working shift, earning a mere basic income of $800 a month, you don't know how you have inspired me, how you have made me understand the meaning of being contented, to live within your means.
I just have a "simple" wish for 2009: To enjoy peace, love and joy in whatever I do.
"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world"
As a consolation, at least I have taken the courage to change my hairstyle that had been with me for a decade, before the year ends.
Happy New Year.
