Making time...

I realised one thing, we will never be free unless we decide to make time to be free.

After the June holidays, I was busy planning for Olympic Month and preparing for school's Cultural Night Concert. I told myself that I will be free after these 2 activities. Lo and behold! There was a Family Day that came after the Cultural Night Concert. After Family Day, there was National Day celebration followed by Teacher's Day dinner performance. Then I thought, everything should be over right?? I should be free from projects and all.. But I was told to be in the Children's Day Committee to help out as well. So well, I thought again that Children's Day should be the last project of the year already. BUT, PE department still need to plan post exam activities. Most of these activities were planned and coordinated by my colleagues, so I'm not so involved. And I received an email from my dear friend that I am in Art Exhibition committee. So well, when will I be free? On top of these, I was arrowed to go for a PW sharing on behalf of a colleague. I was also to attend a YOG briefing and I registered to go for a ICIP trip to Yunnan in Dec.

Aren't I busy? Yes! But I am also very free to go for lunch and tea breaks at least once every week. I may be in school till 5pm. But I wasn't doing work all the time. Most of the time I was busy chatting and spending time with my colleagues. We are the ones to plan our own time. I can be busy yet free at the same time. I can't run away from the things that I need to do. Work is never ending, but I make the effort to take breaks in between so that my life will not be unbalanced. I'm enjoying so much of my work life that you'll realise I've grown horizontally these days. After a hard day's work, I really need that 1-2 hrs lunch out with my friends to recharge myself. And I am really thankful that I have khakis who share this same recharging sentiments with me.

Despite this busyness, I managed to meet Kim for dinner on 20th Oct. That's how I started to think that, as long as I decide to make time for someone, I can be free. There are people who always "plan" to go out with me. But they seemed to be real busy. So we always didn't get to meet. Either we are not fated to meet or we just didn't make time for one another.

1 person that I truly admire is Suzy. She's working in accounts department. She's a CGL and most importantly, she's a friend to me and everyone else that she knows. Her work is ultra busy (if you know how the accounts department works), she needs to spend time with her youth members (and she really spend a lot of time with them), she needs to attend leader's meeting and many other meetings with the leaders, but she'll always make time to meet us once in a while. Although every time we see her, she may be busy making phone calls or sms-ing, yet without fail she will spend time with us. I've not known her for very long, but I know that this friend is a friend for a lifetime. *Salute*

We all have people that we like to spend our time with. So it's pretty normal that sometimes we make excuses not to meet someone and we make the effort to meet others. So well, that's life! There are still others who enjoy my company! I'm perfectly fine with that. You should be too!