While the only challenge of a rock star is to write great music so that suckers like us will idolize them like gods, their biggest perk is also to trip a great deal in order to produce great music so that suckers like us will worship them like the devil.
The days of our rock stars' lives are filled with glitz and glamour. While the lives of us earthlings are filled with mundane decisions like what to do with our mortal lives and to deliberate on intelligent questions like where do we see ourselves in the next 5 years.
Right now my most pressing question is however what's more important: to be challenged or to stay contented?
Like I've said before, challenges are absent from the work front thus presently I feel like I am drowning in stale waters, urgently in need to come up for a breath of fresh air. Putting the office politics and the strange ways of the management aside, there is really nothing else for me to whine about.
The man remarked that I have it all too good till now, therefore, I need to kick up a fuss to spice up my life a little. I do not know whether to laugh or to cry at that observation. But who knows, he could well be right.
And then NW quipped, 'How old liao. No strength to climb that stupid ladder man'.
This is not about climbing the corporate ladder either. I am way past that phase. My reasoning is if there is no more personal growth or since I am not learning new stuff from the work anymore, isn't it pointless for me to remain? Whatever happen to job satisfaction and fulfillment?
Or should I be a meek lamb and wait for fate to decide what's in store for me?
In the self-development department, I am pleased to say in my first years here I've acquired a new language, overcome my aquaphobia and picked up swimming, refreshed my driving skills and can now cook to feed hungry mouths.
These may well be small feats to others but to me those were actual survival challenges which I had to overcome to fit into this society.
I refuse to lag behind and be an obsolete human.
And then I also started a new blog to chase those boredom blues away. My writing maybe amateur but I doubt anyone suffers nosebleed from following my blog. Or do you?
In other words, I have grown quite abit, haven't I?
Honestly, it just boils down to my fears of being an obsolescence. Which explains my compelling need to keep exploring new things and to evolve so as not to fall into the complacent trap and be a passè.
My most pressing question is self-answering.
2 comments:
I know exactly how you feel. Feel the same way too.
Only difference is I get my "spice in life" whenever my student(s) kick up a fuss about the lessons being irrelevant to their jobs.
And I´m back to my suspicion that the school is hard-selling companies a product we can´t deliver. L-ong story. But yeah. Companies expect a tailor-made English course whereas the school only offers standardized courses.
And of course the teachers get the blame.
Wish there was another school to offer my services at.
Well, no harm looking around then. :)
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