If you are feeling bored, and when you are on holiday, you yearn for something to fill your time, and yet, you can’t seam to find any. You are probably not to have any mission in life, just like me. It was a long holiday week in Malaysia, with the ethnic Indian Divali festival (festival of light) and the Muslim’s end of fast festival, Malaysia had a 5 day weekend holiday… Well, at least me and my wife had. We were so excited to have such a long break, and was looking forward to it for months. We thought we could just laze through the 5 days and enjoy a much needed time off from work. We did just that for the first two days, and when come the third day, we were utterly bored. What’s there to be done in Penang, we have seen it all. The mall is crowded with colleagues, and we didn’t have the money to spent anyway.
At this point, I realize we need to have a Mission in our life. We have been drifting in the waves and let weather determine our future. Its time to take control and start paddling towards a destination. We are sort of like in the middle of the ocean right now, and there is no island in sight. Where is north, where is south, we don’t know. Even if we know, is north our destination? I’ve no idea. I’ve been told to follow my destiny, but what is exactly my destiny? For this, I turn to what I’ve been desiring for a long time. Back in the days when i was in University, I’ve always wanted to have an Italian restaurant, to server good Italian food in an utmost romantic setting. I sort of kept that in the back of my mind, and let the dreams died with time. Then when I started working as an engineer, I fell in love with books, buying them, and most of the time, did not finish reading them. I wanted to have a book shop. Then I could read them for free and have time to read them, and again, it was active at the back of my mind for some time, and it died with time. Then some time later, I fell in love with music, and wanted to have a record shop, this too died with time.
If I had a mission in my life, I wouldn’t have time to be bored, I would have spent my time pursuing my dreams. If I had 5 days off, I would have spent my 5 days pursuing my dreams. Time would have disappeared. I would have enjoy my work so much, it would not be called work at all, every day is fun day. Its also ‘fund’ day, earning money while having fun. How great would this be….
I guess it is time for me to put forward my Mission in Life. Lacking one, I am just wasting my life away, floating aimlessly in the open sea, leaving my raft to the weather, waves, etc. Its time to pick up an ore and start paddling. But firstly, determine the destination…
