12 days into the new year and I am already longing for a holiday. Usually one starts the new year fresh and awake to take on the challenges of the new year. But I feel somewhat like I am still stuck in stressful periods of November and December, it's as if the year is still at 2006. No wonder I am feeling like a holiday right now. Thank God holidays these days are affordable compared to when I first started work 5 years ago. Truly, someone should give Datuk Tony Fernandez more than a medal for coming out with Air Asia and what a man for giving 1 million free tickets away. The minute the news came out about the free tickets, I was already on the net and booked my free ticket to my holiday destination. That's 2 holidays for this year already and I am still trying to slot in a 3rd holiday for this year.
How things have changed over the last 5 years. Going on a holiday 5 years ago means I had to sell one of my bass to fund my holiday. Right now, I can afford it on my monthly salary. 5 years ago, surfing on the internet in Starbucks was considered a novelty, right now every household has wireless internet connection. It got me thinking, how do you balance change of mindsets to changes around. Think about it, for change to happen, mindsets has to change. But changes around us happens so fast these days that our mindsets are playing catch up to embrace these changes. And that brings another question, where do you balance the dynamic mindsets with the less dynamic mindsets. Lately, my mindset is going through a change but my heart is not wiling to embrace those change. For example, my mindset on dating has changed last year compared to the year before (I shan't go into details on it) but there are parts of me that is not willing to accept these change in mindset. It could be because I feel that I may be compromising something? So how do you adapt oneself at the end of the day?
Embracing change is good, but we have to be careful of what change we embrace. I am always reminded of what aunty Chiew Har taught us in YC last year that we do not compromise the Godly principles and values that we have embrace from the beginning of time. We are all born with a defected mindset and God is striving to change those defects. That is the biggest part of our journey, knowing the right Godly "change" to embrace and turning away from the wrong one. Problem is how do we know which is right and wrong? I guess that's where we have to know whether our heart is right with God. Because God speaks to the heart and if our heart is not right with God, we'll never know the right change to embrace.
This is something that I strive for always, keeping a my heart close to God so that I know what are the Godly changes i should embrace.
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