dare to dream BIG!
Just wanna share something before i explode. Kinda like confession with the mouth is equivalent to being bound by it. It's a good ' excuse ' to maintain your accountability & kill all fickle-mindedness.
I've just started my bachelor class last week. It's really enriching + awakening. Enriching cos I know that I'm in for lotsa learning about the areas i'm really into. Lotsa communication, public relations, journalism, media, lotsa information! I love information! of anykind...especially if it is the inside and 'revelatic' kind heheheh. Information >> Knowledge > Wisdom > A Sound Mind. Praise the Lord.
Awakening too. I have been a lazy gerl, have been procrastinating stuff & holding back so many plans in pursuit of over-perfection. Have been holding back my dreams, tying them on a leash and smothering them with the mundanities of life. That's bad. And that was aggravated when I go to the first day of school, and discover that many of my classmates have an upper edge, an added advantage, many in the related industries. Mediacorp. Safra Radio. MTV Asia. ESPN. Media Devlopment Authority. SIA. CK Tangs. Ad agencies.
So what am I? At best a mini 'ambassador' of my company contributing to a tiny part of the overall public relational image of my company. At worst a customer service person performing mere human 'maintenance' tasks, at the beck and call of the customer, doing service recovery, bearing the brunt of being on the receiving end of quick tempers.
But that's the secular me. So what AM i? I seek satisfying solace in the fact that I am a full-time minister, and I am a daring dreamer in Jesus! Yesterday Dr John said that God already has open doors for us which cannot be shut, so essentially & biblically there is nothing impossible with God unless we choose to close those doors. wah seh!
Being a 'stale' diploma grad / 'to-be-fresh' degree undergrad, i know that new entrants will follow and saturate the already-weak job market further, resulting in stiffler competition, esp in the industry i've set my sights on. I thank God that most of our WO2 family is gainfully employed in one way or other !
Life for those in the mid-20s is always tumultous - cos we discover hard facts of life and experience them for the first time in our lives. There is a disheartening fact of working life. One's career options are very far from one's desired goals in life. We are constantly battling with this dilemna: be employed but be too comfortable & get bored, or chase that better option that requires us to make big adjustments in our life. Whatever happened to being daring & dreaming big? Indolence sets in.
So i told myself, Jenny, it's time to wake up. Bind the fear of failure, the fear of wandering off the beaten track, the fear of losing out in the rat race. My friends all have different goals: to be rich tai-tais, to be dancers, to be celebrities, to be pet shop owners, to be freelance writers, to migrate overseas. But I need not be exactly like them. That is such a cliched life.
I refuse to grudgingly accept the stories that tell of every winner there are 10 times as many losers. I wanna get out of the kiasu S'porean mindset & into the Jesus mindset. Don't be afraid to be daring. Be prepared for hardship. Develop the gung-ho spirit. Yes, realise the yuppie dream if you want to (promotion, marriage, cash, credit card, car, condominium etc). But i should put away my disillusions. I want to be more resilient, gather enough courage. To be excited once more.
I will work hard on bringing my dream of using my writing to impact the world, dream of using pictures to tell million-word stories, dream of singing for the ministry, dream of impeccable service unto the lord - all into fruition, despite inital letdowns. I know Jesus will do it for me.
And i know my awakening will still continue.
I've just started my bachelor class last week. It's really enriching + awakening. Enriching cos I know that I'm in for lotsa learning about the areas i'm really into. Lotsa communication, public relations, journalism, media, lotsa information! I love information! of anykind...especially if it is the inside and 'revelatic' kind heheheh. Information >> Knowledge > Wisdom > A Sound Mind. Praise the Lord.
Awakening too. I have been a lazy gerl, have been procrastinating stuff & holding back so many plans in pursuit of over-perfection. Have been holding back my dreams, tying them on a leash and smothering them with the mundanities of life. That's bad. And that was aggravated when I go to the first day of school, and discover that many of my classmates have an upper edge, an added advantage, many in the related industries. Mediacorp. Safra Radio. MTV Asia. ESPN. Media Devlopment Authority. SIA. CK Tangs. Ad agencies.
So what am I? At best a mini 'ambassador' of my company contributing to a tiny part of the overall public relational image of my company. At worst a customer service person performing mere human 'maintenance' tasks, at the beck and call of the customer, doing service recovery, bearing the brunt of being on the receiving end of quick tempers.
But that's the secular me. So what AM i? I seek satisfying solace in the fact that I am a full-time minister, and I am a daring dreamer in Jesus! Yesterday Dr John said that God already has open doors for us which cannot be shut, so essentially & biblically there is nothing impossible with God unless we choose to close those doors. wah seh!
Being a 'stale' diploma grad / 'to-be-fresh' degree undergrad, i know that new entrants will follow and saturate the already-weak job market further, resulting in stiffler competition, esp in the industry i've set my sights on. I thank God that most of our WO2 family is gainfully employed in one way or other !
Life for those in the mid-20s is always tumultous - cos we discover hard facts of life and experience them for the first time in our lives. There is a disheartening fact of working life. One's career options are very far from one's desired goals in life. We are constantly battling with this dilemna: be employed but be too comfortable & get bored, or chase that better option that requires us to make big adjustments in our life. Whatever happened to being daring & dreaming big? Indolence sets in.
So i told myself, Jenny, it's time to wake up. Bind the fear of failure, the fear of wandering off the beaten track, the fear of losing out in the rat race. My friends all have different goals: to be rich tai-tais, to be dancers, to be celebrities, to be pet shop owners, to be freelance writers, to migrate overseas. But I need not be exactly like them. That is such a cliched life.
I refuse to grudgingly accept the stories that tell of every winner there are 10 times as many losers. I wanna get out of the kiasu S'porean mindset & into the Jesus mindset. Don't be afraid to be daring. Be prepared for hardship. Develop the gung-ho spirit. Yes, realise the yuppie dream if you want to (promotion, marriage, cash, credit card, car, condominium etc). But i should put away my disillusions. I want to be more resilient, gather enough courage. To be excited once more.
I will work hard on bringing my dream of using my writing to impact the world, dream of using pictures to tell million-word stories, dream of singing for the ministry, dream of impeccable service unto the lord - all into fruition, despite inital letdowns. I know Jesus will do it for me.
And i know my awakening will still continue.
