Life Fleeting By

Time Lost, and "Found" Again
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As I'm typing this, each millisecond of my life is fleeting by, like the flowing of water from a faucet. Time cannot be reversed, what time one had lost cannot be regained, but what experiences one had gained cannot be lost.

How about looking at it this way. What time one had "gained" has translated into opportunities, chances and solutions.

"Huh?"

Yes, had a friend who had to settle a sum of income tax with IRAS for the previous year, but she was out of job at that time. The tax manager then worked out a monthly repayment plan for her so that she could settle her income tax eventually, instead of paying one lump sum. Time "gained" that had translated into a solution for her.

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The Fun Times
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All the fun times, the good, the bad, the ugly, they are all now just glimpses of the past. Fond memories of yester-years stay ... but fond memories.

What have one to look forward to?

For some individuals, they have exciting lives, living everyday as if it were their last. Some live for the future, carefully crafting their path to get to a place of fulfillment in the future.

Some, however, likes to live in the past, where they feel secure, not having to face the now-reality of life, always telling others, " When I was young ...", or, "In the past, women ... " (I'll just leave that as that.

Look around, you'll see many listless people walking around, going about their lives, wondering where has time gone too, or what they have to look forward to in the future.

You'll see a lot of people still living in their past. Not THE PAST, but THEIR PAST. Still in their own world, wondering what happened to the world they once knew. Wrong... wondering what happened to the SINGAPORE they once knew. Those who know not what is happening outside their little neighbourhood. Living day to day,waiting for journey's end.

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The Opportunities
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It is funny how when one has hit rock bottom, that one finally "opens" one's eyes. My eyes were shut to opportunities in the past when I had a "normal" job. The day I had decided to throw in the towel, I guess I could say that my "radar" began to scan a wider range.

Through and through, I have experienced that when one door shuts, either a window or another door opens.

Now being in the category of "self-employed" (the "S" quadrant, as according to R.Kiyosaki's Cashflow Quadrant model), my perception of work, life and money changed drastically. I guess I had jumped into it without preparation for what might come. I had always compared going into self-employment to jumping into the large blue ocean, not knowing where to swim, what's lurking in the waters, and when I might find land. Same script I ran through and through when people asked me what is it like coming out of my comfort zone.

At least almost 8 months after I quit from a normal job (actually there was nothing normal about my old job), I can tell people that my eyes had been opened to opportunities, and I see it at every corner.

Was sort of lamenting to a gal friend that whenever I want to quit the *peep* industry, new business will come in. "Hey, but this will not always happen, okay!"

Okay, okay, I get it.

Through another chat with a gal friend (I have more gal friends than guy friend!), a new job opportunity came up, and this was just a day after my aunty called me, ALSO with another job opening.

Well, all roads lead to Rome, just need to choose one that pays better, and provides better benefits in the long run!