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......if you don’t know where you are going, any
road will take you there.
In a bid to get to work on time,
Zoey jumped onto the first available bust at the Bus Park. She had woken up 30
minutes later than usual that Monday morning and was certain that she would
miss her 7.30am resumption deadline if she does not attach herself to a moving
bus right away. She could not care less that the one she had boarded wold not
take her normal route which was shorter and faster; all she wanted at that
moment was to be on a moving bus!
45 minutes later, the driver
announced that he would be turning back two stops away from her normal stop.
Hence, she became stranded as she found herself in an unfamiliar environment.
It took another 20 minutes to gather herself and locate another bus that would
take her to where she was going, but at this point, she had lost so much time.
She eventually arrived at work at 8.10am, and spent the rest of the day lamenting
the woes that befell her that morning.
What went wrong? She boarded a
bus on time, and yet was late to work.
In truth, she did everything
right except that she that the bus she boarded was not the right one. A little
more focus and patience would have gotten her to the office not only earlier,
but more composed that morning!
In life, we often found ourselves
in a hurry, perhaps because we suddenly wake up to realise that time had passed
us by, and we need a lot of catching up to do. We are a few years behind the time
we should have gotten married; we should have gotten a job 5 years earlier; we
should have built that mansion 3 years back; we should have had that baby 6
years ago! Because of this time lag,, it is natural for us to want to rush
things just to get to that destination we felt we should have been earlier, and
so we accept anything that comes our way so long as there is a promise to get
us there.
It is not a problem for anyone to
run late. The question is “is the bus we’re on is going
in the right direction?”.
At the beginning of this year,
many of us wrote New Year resolutions as usual.
These resolutions represent the
destination we intend to get to at the end of the year. But again, I ask; are
you on the right bus,? Will the bus you’re on right now get you to that
destination at the end of this year? Will your present actions and habits get
you the desired results? What do you feed your mind with daily?
...to be continued.
