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Pace of Life...

Working overseas has really shown me how our pace of life is so much different in Singapore. It makes me wonder if sometimes we should take our lives slower and enjoy the true meaning of life and to really cherish and treasure our time with our loved ones.
Since I have been traveling so frequently to and fro Philippines, I find that time is indeed very important and very very precious. I’ve hardly spent enuff quality time with my loved ones back home, and between all these traveling, sometimes I really feel “disconnected” from the world. It’s almost like life is nothing much except for work. Honestly, my project mates are too interesting either. Well, that’s maybe because everyone’s just really drained out after a long tiring day all week. And rest seems never enuff all the time…..
It is abit sad to live through life like that really. I mean time just zoomed so incredibly past you and your days just go into weeks and weeks into months and months to years. By the time your body calls you to slow down, you’ll probably realize u missed out a lot on life itself.
But sometimes I can’t help but wonder, do we actually dictate our own lives or is it dictated by time and space. I mean, time as in which era are we born in, space as in which part of the world are we born into. Whether you are a Japanese, Chinese, European,Australian- are all these arrangements been pre-destined?
Say for example I’m borne a Filipino, then my way of life would be like theirs. And if I were to meet someone like my current self, would I feel that that someone is going too fast for me? Third person perspective, interesting huh?And if for example I’m borne in the early 60s or something, would it be easier for me to strike it rich with my current ambitions? Hmm….I do wonder really.
As times change, I can’t help but feeling that life is getting harder and harder. To think that pple used to be able to marry with a chicken, a sewing machine and maybe some bags of rice in the past. But now, people will need to worry about houses, how many tables for the banquet, what famous designer should u hire to design your very own gowns etc etc. It all comes down to the big M. But the big M isn’t exactly what everyone has. It’s not easy to make a living nowadays. You’ll need a lil bit of luck to get a good job, a gd boss perhaps to pay you the rite salary and perhaps a gd bonus reward once in awhile to come with. But with the every growing materialistic world, it seems more n more difficult to obtain.
Sometimes I do wonder, would life has been a lot easier and simpler when we were hunting animals with spears, running around in woven coconut husk material wear and just live life in an old-fashioned barbaric way. Ha! How interesting!

I’m tired…I need rest….ZzZzzzZzzz…..

Blabbered by KaiRiNu at 6:05 PM