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You Don't Always Want Everything You NEED

Most of us are used to saying that people don't always need everything they want. Yes it's true. We all have our own bottomless pit of wish lists (or want lists) - things we want to achieve, we want to have, and want to own. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes these wishes don't even make sense taken together. In a way, we forget about our priorities and lose our focus on the "prize" - or what we really NEED in life. There comes a point in time however when inevitably we find ourselves pressed to make one choice - one want. Ultimately, upon prioritizing and thinking clearly we default to choose what we really NEED, amongst the hundreds of wants in our list.

This is easy.

But really, have we ever stopped and wondered if maybe what we really NEED is not even one of the things we want? How do we know we NEED something when we don't even desire to have it, or own it; or plainly don't even want it?

As for me, I am not any better at having the answer. I guess at this point what matters is going back to the idea that everything that we have and everything that's happening in our life right now is exactly what we NEED and exactly where we have to be. It is not serendipitous, but rather NECESSARY.

Time to segregate, listen conscientiously, take the plunge but with calcuations, go above the superficial. Time to start scrapping that want list, and building that NEED list. At the end of the day not everything we want may be given to us, yet everything we NEED is always within our reach - just waiting to be recognized.

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The First Day of my Last Day (The Emotional Journey of A Resignee)

So this is what it feels like to be a bum... It is only Sunday and yet after just two days of being out-of-job, I already dread the coming days when I won't have anything to do. Sure the idea of watching tv all day, taking naps when I feel like it, and reading books in between is so so tempting. But at the end of the day, I still miss the idea of doing something important - something that I know has an effect in the greater scheme of things.

Still I'm thankful that I was able to have this chance to rest, getting to this point however wasn't quite that easy. It was an emotional rollercoaster which couldn't be helped.

When I first handed in "the letter", I felt a mix of emotions that to me felt even worse than breaking up with a boyfriend. After that afternoon, I couldn't barely eat for dinner and neither could I concentrate on anything that my friend was saying. Everything about me felt funny and all topsy-turvy, however none of it was in any form regret.

Despite all the madness going on inside my head, I knew deep down that it was but a step to something better in my life. Sleeping over it helped, and the next day what came over me was a sense of liberation. Slowly I felt like I was letting go one by one of little weights I carry with me. The only thing is, I couldn't help but be anxious of being away from friends that I got to know and love in two years' time.

Needless to say in the coming days and weeks after, I suffered a bad case of separation anxiety. I started to "try" and disengage myself from some of the things that I knew I would miss most about the office and the people I worked with - the hallway, the market place, the messy but still functional desks, the GHK-unfriendly areas, the Otis lunches, the food infested CMD-Foods area, the occasional "tsismis", the unending chatters, the countless laughters, the jokes, the loud singing of four different people of four different songs at a time.. Everything. I began to wonder if I'll ever feel as welcomed as I did at that moment, or if I'll ever walk in the same hallways again feeling proud of having real friends beside me whom I have the liberty to be playful with in what we call a workplace.

The days passed and the more that I came close to my last day, the closer I felt to everything I was leaving behind. I began to realize that I may not walk the same halls again with these people, I may not hear the same chatters everyday, or see the familiar chaos in our area; but that something important to do I'm missing now doesn't have to happen in the workplace. I have time. That is important. I have time to keep connecting with the people I left behind, time to reconnect with those I couldn't be with because of work demands, and time for myself that I could use to regain newfound energy for my next job. And this alone, forms part of the greater scheme of things.

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What is the Purpose of Life?

Seems like a question coming from a confused person. But really, have we ever stopped to wonder why we are even here in this world? What is my purpose? And why does everything end?

It's a very standard question, but one that does not have a standard answer.