Overload

While I was trying to convince myself to start working on my statistics project, I did what?! - Yes, that's right - procrastinate :-) but at least I came upon this other blog and this entry that feels so close.

So here it goes.

1. On desire

We all have a heart’s desire.

We think erroneously that our heart’s desire should materialise effortlessly.

We think we should enjoy it without doing any work.

I believe if you want something bad enough, nothing is outside your reach. If you dream of something hard enough, eventually you will have it.

But, dreaming, planning, preparing are never enough. When it’s crunch time, it requires a heart of courage to obtain your desire.

It requires courage to face up to the hard work ahead to keep your heart’s desire.

A friend once asked me if faced with 2 choices: A and B, and both are good choices, how do you know which is God’s will for you? Do you pray for a sign?

I said, based on my Bible knowledge: “God always favours courage. If both choices are good, then pick one, but pick it with all your heart, and go with it without looking back. Don’t be double-minded. God blesses the courageous.”

If an opportunity is open right now, and we’re hesitating for too long, letting it slip by, our cowardice is the only reason for our misery.

Of course there is a moment to wait, regroup and prepare, but if we’ve past that stage, and we’re still mucking about in indecisiveness, and worse yet, the opportunity, wide open in front of us, is fast closing, then we’re fools.

That opportunity has your name on it. It belongs to you. It appeared because you wanted it to appear.

You had better reach for what is yours. No one is going to do it for you.

What an irony: you plan, wait, and prepare for your desire. Then it materialises, and it scares you and instead of grasping onto it, you let it go.

And then you turn around and search for second best — because second best is easier to live with, easier to live up to. Second best has less challenges. It may not satisfy you completely, but at least it won’t demand the best from you.

What a sad end to a promising beginning. You only have yourself to kick.

2. On relationships

I’ve come this far to know that while relationships are romantic and wonderful, its also about Real Life.Relationships are about accomodating someone else who has a completely different point of view from yourself. It’s about humility and growth.

Relationships bring two people from two different worlds into collision course with each other — producing unpredictable, messy, but ultimately glorious results.

Relationships force you to grow up. No selfish person ever had a long, satisfying relationship. The fastest way to lose many of your rights is by getting yourself a life partner. Suddenly you’re responsible for another life besides your own. That’s growth. And that’s good.

3. On persistence

Persistence. It sounds good and clean on paper, but in practice it’s sweaty and gritty. But what amazing things can happen with persistence. I always remind myself never to belittle that one word.

Persistence makes the hardest heart soft. It opens doors that you thought were tightly shut, and knocks down walls the world builds to oppose you.

Persistence is not about how big you are, how strong or mighty, intelligent or good-looking you are. It has nothing to do with the graces we are gifted with at birth.

Persistence is all about keeping-at-it, and it’s a powerful trait that belongs to both the great and the small. Even the smallest things on this planet, with persistence, builds the largest and most complex of creations.

“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”

- Anita Roddick

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