"People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same." – Paulo Coelho
This year has been a rollercoaster of change -- a lot of firsts in my personal and professional life. I was able to visit Beijing and Japan for the first time. The latter, a little more significant since Japanese culture has intrigued me since I was a small girl. I was assigned to my first stint outside of marketing. I got married. First and last, I pray. Wink! June 17, 2012 was one of the happiest, if not the perfect moment of my life. Shortly a month after, I got a positive pregnancy result. Yet, a day after, we lost it all too soon. First married life heartbreak.
I think, most of us, if not all, only want change for the better. We fail to realize though, that in every shift in our situation, there will always be two sides of it. There will not be a time (at least, speaking from experience) when everything in a certain scenario will be a bed of roses. There will always be some trade-offs, some disappointments that we have not foreseen.
For example – the little things in my marriage.
We were together for six years already. I thought I knew him inside out. But it was only of late that I knew how good he was at guitar. Very good, in fact and I loved it! Is there a downside to this? Of course there is. When he is trying to figure out a new song to play, you will hear the same song for all your waking hours (sometimes, even in my sleep!) You hear it streaming on YouTube, playing on the iPod, playing on the guitar. Do I get annoyed? Sometimes. Especially when I am having my episodes. But then, who can complain when after he masters the song, you are the one he asks to sing the lyrics to it?
See, it is always a matter of perspective – how we deal with it; how positively or negatively we will be affected by things around us.
In retrospect, the changes in my life do not feel as significant as they were at the moment that I was experiencing them. Nevertheless, these occurrences change a little something inside. In paradigm. In beliefs. In faith.
Til the next big change.
xx,
Corporate Junkie
