Life is not an exam. There are no course syllabus to study, no past examination questions to prepare you for. There are no model answers too. Life just happens. Life brings it’s sets of challenges and demands a response on your part. Life doesn’t judge you but through your course of actions, throu gh your responses, you judge yourself in that light. Life allows you the choices that...
Work is something that defines man. When we meet someone the first thing we often ask “What do you do?”. In our post-modern culture, our work has defined who we are and what we do. And rightly so. Think about how work is tied to status and reputation. We define a person’s stature by his profession. We rationalize an individual’s prized posession by his status and job. The...
I am life’s shock absorber. I am a toxic handler. I am whatever you call it that helps you get by an unpleasant situation. I listen to people who tell me their problems. I provide advise and counsel if possible. Like how shock absorbers cushion the unpleasantness when you pass through a bump or a pothole, I am that shock absorber that helps make that pothole experience bearable. I try to...
As I wrapped up my work earlier today and drove myself home after a day’s work, I thought about talking to God. Nothing fancy, just a simple catch up. I felt that I had missed Him after so long. The soul gets weary and tired after ploughing through days and days without water. I felt I wanted to pray and get connected back to God. And so I did just precisely that. I didn’t have much...
On Friday I was fuming. I had missed my flight for the first time and I was upset at myself as I thought my unfortunate predicament was my own doing. Afterall how else do you make sense of what had happened? I ended my entry my asking how do we persevere and endure when the whole world makes demands of you? Although I didn’t find the exact answers to my anguished questions per se I found...