Living on Little Baggage
Continuing on what I mentioned last week, I want to speak a little more about this topic of uncertainty in our lives.
After that newsletter, I have had a few conversations with my friends about the whole US trip and what they thought about what I said; which gave me a few more ideas to write.
Having uncertainty in our lives is a blessing, because it is that which adds spice in our lives. I mean, don’t you think your life would be routine and boring if it turned out EXACTLY the way you wanted it to?
You plan to work at this place. You get the job. You do the job. You plan your weekends and it turns out all as planned. Pretty soon you’ll be thirsting for some sort of variation or adventure of some sort.
But yet, it’s that thing in us that seeks to control our environment that often provides additional and unnecessary stress for our lives. We try to control the jobs we get; we try to control our grades; and so on. Yet, we must realize we can never control 90% of the things that happen to us; and its our constant to do so that creates this load of stress and anxiety in our lives.
We can control how many hours we study for an exam, but we can never control the grade that comes out.
We can control how we will answer for an interview, or even how our resume looks; but we will never control whether a company wishes to hire us or not.
But if we learn to surrender the things that we can’t control, we live life with a certain sense of ease and simplicity. When we learn to accept that life never pans out the way we want it to, then we can live with very little baggage.
We can live light.
I always tell myself, especially when things don’t turn out as planned, “Well, life never turns out my way; but it always turns out God’s way!”
And with pretty much sums up my belief and approach to Uni-Y as well.
Uni-Y’s activities has increased tremendously in this year, and there are many more departments, activities and administration to manage. Some turn out better than expected, some turn out not as well; sometimes and mostly there are people problems.
If I had chosen to ‘manage’ everything, I wouldn’t be typing this newsletter today. =))
At the end of the day, I only have to know this: that I did what I could with my time and my ability.
That keeps me sane; keeps me going strong.
