today...
Sunday, 11 November 2007
I must be made for more than this
Once you get into the working life... life just seems like the sound of a buzzing mosquito. Monday to Friday you commute half an hour to work. Then slog it out from nine to five... always looking forward to lunch as soon as you get into work, and once lunch is over, look forward to going home and then it's another half hour commute home. Friday is the best... because you can look forward to the weekend relax on Saturdays and go to church on Sundays! In the end it turns out that everyday is almost the same routine.It's funny, because I take pretty much the same route to Curtin in the mornings and the same but different route back home... Monday to Friday I will see the same family sitting at the bus stop on at 8:10am, I will always see the SIGNMAN van go past me and the coffee man van...I even see the same cars driving along the same road as me with the same number plates that I saw yesterday at roughly around the same time! Depending where they are on the road and where I am... either they're late or I'm late! But it's amazing how we can all slip into a routine like this... actually it's almost quite dangerous.
I was watching TV the other day about Dr Victor Chang one of Australia's leading cardiac and heart transplant surgeons of his time in 1990 who got gunned down because he followed the same routine everyday. His assassins were able to follow his route everyday and that's how he got gunned down. Quite sad really...
But aren't me made for much more than that? Aren't we made much more than to go to work and come home everyday. Aren't we made for much more than just routine and working to sustain ourselves and our spouses and families?
In fact I was talking to a work collegue. I shall call her Jane. Jane's job description is basically photocopying, emailing, PDFing, sending out letters and filing. Day in day out her job doesn't change and yet she feels content with her job - even happy? Maybe she's a person that doesn't like change. I asked Jane if she had aspirations for something better in life or even something more challenging and stimulating... and in fact she didn't! She was happy with the statud quo and the routine she gets into everyday as though her life reached a stage of stagnant learning.
I hope that I never become like that though. I know I'm super lazy and I procrastinate... but I hope that I can always look for bigger and better opportunities to help others and make a difference in myself and for others as well and our world. And it's my hope that all my friends and family strive for this as well. What is life if we don't continue to keep learning, and keep reaching for a better future for yourself and others.
I really believe in the career woman. There are women who go to highschool, uni, get married and have children and that's the end of their career. They become housewives for the rest of their lives and I always wonder if they wanted to be something more. Didn't they have dreams of becoming something too? I'm sure everyone has. Will they be content with just doing house duties and going grocery shopping for the rest of their lives?!
I was thinking what I would do if I won $30 million! hahaha..... well... I'd invest a whole lot of it. I'd take all my friends around the world travelling with me. But then after all that? I think I'd really pursue what I've always wanted to do but maybe never had the courage to do because of financial constraints and risks involved. I've always loved the arts, bright colours, textures, patterns and furniture. No wonder I love freedom so much... and it must be a crime that I've never in my life visited IKEA! Anyway, I always wanted to be an interior designer of sorts. Buying run down houses and then revamping them and making them beautiful. But it's difficult when owning a home is so difficult now...
I've always wanted to go to a third world country... or second world country (maybe I can't cope in a third world country)... and really experience the lives they live. I've always wanted to help build a school and teach English. To make a difference in the lives of impoverished children.
Then I have aspirtions of being an Events Co-ordinator of sorts as a career, though it would take years of experience to get to that status. I think the way I see life is unconventional compared to others. I'd rather be out there in the sun and dirt and doing things with my hands than be stuck in an office. I'd rather be planting trees and painting walls. There are a lot of things I'd rather be doing than *this*...
Life is challenging and Melvin from church said some very profound words!
It's not our name that defines who we are but what we've done with our lives that will define us.
Similar to what Jackie Friedberg said at Maximum Impact. When we die and have a look at our tombstone, there are two sets of numbers on there. Both numbers we can't choose - that is, the year that you were born, and the year that you died. We can't choose when and who we're born too and we can't predict when we're going to die right? What we can do is to enhance the quality of the "dash" in our lives, make our dash significant and have meaning - and it is with that dash that will have defined who we are.
today...
@2:30 pm
bye bye~