Apt

Very appropriately and timely, my MD posted a blog article yesterday evening on our internal site. (Yes, our comprehensive internal site has articles for internal sharing plus blogposts by senior management. Damn awesome right.)

In the post, he wrote about how he came to Singapore from KL when he was 12 and made different decisions which eventually got him to where he is now. Overall it was a very humble post.

So anyway, what he wrote struck a chord in me as it was just what i needed at this point of time - at my first job.

Here's an excerpt of it which inspired me (it's going to be reproduced in a public magazine so i figure it's ok to post it here.):

"Choice is a uniquely human condition. “The stone and the tiger have no choice of life: the stone must gravitate and the tiger must pounce. Only human beings are faced with the mind-boggling responsibility of having, at each and every moment of their lives, to choose what to do and what to be. It is both a necessity and an invitation.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset, in his essay “The Mission of the Librarian”

Life is a series of choices. Sometimes, the choice isn’t even ours to make and we can only choose to embrace the outcome (or not). We make a decision and move forward with it until we need to choose again. Each decision may be a considered and responsible choice but how they all string together is often, rather random. We can only determine the general direction that we want to walk towards.

Recognize what speaks to us. And what does not. Wherever possible, pursue our passion(s) and hopefully, become good at it. Enjoy the journey because the destination will probably look quite different from what you imagined it to be when you started. "


- Mr Beh Swan Gin

Ok, maybe it doesn't have the same inspiring effect out of context, of how he made his drastic career choice, but that's for me to remember.

Oh well. I totally agree with you MD. I'll try my best to find and pursue that passion! *determined face*