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S.W.O.T

Had an interesting lunch session today….

My Korean colleague was introducing me to another colleague usually stationed in Malaysia and so we were gonna have lunch together when we saw our MD along the way. He then decided, as a nice gesture, to take us all out for lunch.

My Malaysian colleague, let’s call her Miss Bun, was having a mid-life crisis, according to her anyway. She just hit the big 30 2 weeks back, so she’s sorta experiencing this loss of directions being single and all not knowing what a single women like her can achieve now. She lingers on the fact that she’s 30, not yet settled down and still single looking for Mr Right when there are friends of her age all settled down with kids and stuffs. She felt she was missing out in some things in life, not knowing exactly what’s missing.

Though I’ve only just met her, she seems like a really nice person. Really out-going, open-minded, really westernized I would say. But, I can however, try and guess why she’s single. My guess is, she’s someone who doesn’t really like to be tied down. She likes to do whatever and whenever she wanted to. Being with someone takes effort, commitment and compromise. Through her conversations, I don’t think she’s that kind of girl who really wants to settle down. To put it blantly, she’s a party girl in my opinion, always looking out to have fun, to party and to enjoy every bit of life. I don’t think she’s one of those who would be home on Friday night with her kids and stuffs. She’s even all planned out her “activities” all the way till May. She’s going shopping in Hong Kong next month, Bangkok party for a weekend in April…etc etc…U think she’s ready to settle down? I doubt that really…..

Anyway as she was lamenting, my MD tried to give her some advices, the consulting way. Which I found kinda pointless, because if life could be so theoretical and to be applied and optimized using figures and charts, then there wouldn’t be wars, no poverty and definitely no hungry people.

It’s interesting however to see how my MD tried to come out with a graphical explanation, or rather a SWOT (Strengths,Weakness,Opportunities,Threats) analysis of one’s life and how we can set benchmarks through our lives, thus keeping us focused and working towards each goals…yahdah yahdah… All these seem so familiar coming from a consulting framework to analyse business processes etc etc. But can we really apply such frameworks to our lives too? I could only shrug and ”work hazard” is what came to my mind, but I’ve never really thought about life in such a way. If only we can predict what will or can happen next in life, wouldn’t life be perfect then? Bah…if only it’s that easy...And how does it help mid-life crisis? And what’s mid-life crisis really?

Well…what can I say? Until the day I face my fair share of mid-life crisis…I’ll know exactly what that means…..heh

Blabbered by KaiRiNu at 3:56 PM