I’m overcome by a barrage of emotions, good ones mostly. So here I am, my natural outlet – blogging – though I am ashamed to admit and I’m a super infrequent blogger. Maybe I shouldn’t call myself a blogger, more like just a random someone who owns a wordpress account by chance.
Thank you, readers, who conscientiously clicked on my blog each day, contributing to the hits, only to see the same old post. *ashamed*
My work is contradictory. I own a blogshop myself. But I also own a wholesale business that helps build other blogshops. If you ask me if I ever felt a tinge of jealousy to see other blogshops aka my own customers do better than I do – well yes, I do sometimes. But more often than not, this jealousy is way marginalised by the happiness and excitement for my customers to see that they are doing well and we are there to grow together with them. This is not propaganda. Haha. I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
Today, I received great news that two of them are expanding; and another just had a successful launch for her manufactured item and is expecting a backorder.
I’m so so so happy for you girls! xxxx : )
These incidents plus my sporadic thoughts of late – it’s funny how in mere two days, whatever I am doing now suddenly makes so much sense. Enough to make me feel that I’m possibly in a better position than I ever was before.
Above all, for once, I live in my fairytale world that you don’t have to play dirty to succeed.
The day I accepted that meritocracy is a myth, it was terribly upsetting but that’s when you know you’ve grown up and crudely put, that’s life. Along the way, some of us would have succumbed (or even embraced) the Tao of shortcuts. Whether it is knowing the right people (which can be respectable) to manipulating people to your advantage and committing unscrupulous acts that you’ll be ashamed to tell your parents.
I sinked under politics. They are too exhausting mentally and physically. I much prefer to mind my own business and as my mum wisely said whatever you do, do it with your heart. I wonder why it is so difficult for some people to do that.
Still you can run but can’t hide from the tiring P; and I don’t know so much about joining them if you can’t fight them. Dear Ting advised that it’s all a matter of perceptions. If you choose to ignore them and not be affected by them, you can survive. True, I’m trying this out.
I blogged about how life is a constant work in progress previously. Then someone shared with me that WIP is not such a bad thing because only with expectations, you drive yourself harder and higher. True true.
life
Life is written as such you get ups (the l and the f) and downs (the i and the e); sometimes you may even sink under (below the dot in i, haha). Don’t expect to be up there all the time. Don’t be despaired either when you slip and fall. Be that irritating fly that doesn’t go away regardless of how people slap and flap.
Just keep going and you’ll get there eventually.
To those climbing your way up, I say please stop and reflect at times, and not be caught in the rat race. You don’t know what you may lose along the way, and it may be more than what you ask for at the end of the day.
Remember your loved ones – friends, family & bf – because
these are the people who are going to stand by you no matter what.
