Choose!

I was checking my social sites and suddenly heard a conversation of a mother and her child. The child wants to join a marathon but her mom doesn't want her to go, i thought it was just a normal conversation until i heard her mom yelling saying different negative things just to limit her child. She was saying harsh things already to her child. My heart was broken hearing it because i just can't imagine how this will affect her child in the future. Imagine the confidence she lost. Maybe it is only a marathon for the mom but i believe it was everything for her child.I can't blame the mom.. not simply because it's not my concern but because i don't know what she have gone through in the past that made her that way.

We are all born innocent, we are just molded by different waves of people. there will always be legacies of the people before us, good or bad. We don't have a choice whether it will start from good or bad, but i believe that there will be once in our life that we will have a choice. A good legacy can be cut by a single mistake and a bad legacy can be change by a single good deed. A fruit that is ripe can be sweet but can also be sour. 

In order for us to have good fruits we should know the roots.

What influences you now? what books do you read? what friends do you have? what words do you say? who do you believe in?

Our influence makes us think, what we think makes us act and what we act makes us defined.

How do we want ourselves to be defined? Good or Bad?

I hope we would all want to be good and leave a legacy full of hope for the generations to come.

For the child i pray that one day she will choose not based on her past but based on what she wants to be. One day she would be reached out by someone who will encourage her, support her and be her friend.

For the mom i pray that she would realize what she said to her child and maybe read this post. (haha)

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control...."

Galatians 5:22-23

Jesus is the roots, these are the fruits

Abraham Lee 

The Search is Over

It's been rainy these past couple of days and I woke up early this morning for work but I felt that the gravity is like ten times stronger when i'm at bed so i decided to have my mocha to boost me up. The taste of coffee infused with cocoa is really tempting, it's like a dessert in a cup and i really enjoyed it, also the weather! :)

After work i decided to go to the mall to eat lunch and finally went home afterwards. I thought it was just a normal day for me, going to work then going home, then sleep, eat , pray, etc., like the usual routine i had for a couple of months but today was different,  it feels like the wind is whispering in my ears and orchestrating my thoughts, my heart  was pounding really hard i thought it was a heart burn. I had my water and there was relief then i decided to sleep, maybe i'm just tired and needs to rest. When i woke up i turned my laptop on, watched a movie then checked my FB account. When i was checking my FB i happened to chat with a friend i've never talked to for years i guess. It was great catching up with him since i have no idea what and where he's been into for the past years, He was a RN and i thought he is already working as a regular staff in a hospital or maybe applying as a nurse abroad. Little did i know that he was already abroad but not as a nurse but with a different profession, i was in awe because it takes a lot of guts to do that one! Imagine studying very hard for 4 years and really pushing it through to pass the board then after a couple of years decided to throw away that profession for a while and search for himself? that was a brave thing to do! The best part is that his parents are really well-off and he decided to leave, getting out of his comforts zone and stood up by himself. 

Then i realized, what if i choose a different path as well? Honestly, i want to find myself too.  i believe everyone of us has his or her own soul to search, all of us choose different paths like course, job, hobby, etc. but few of us really know what we want to do. We are all good in nature but sometimes the series of events and circumstances of our lives affects the way we decide things that leads us to different paths. Financial status is a big factor for almost everyone of us, let say i want to become a digital artists but because of my circumstance i can't enroll for digital arts since i can't afford the course. Another example is i want to become a photographer but since my rich and famous dad's only son is me and i have no choice but to go for a business course to become his future successor. 

This world is unfair right? Why do we have to be stressed by this world pushing us to paths we don't really want?

I am lost already! crap! but there is one thing i am sure of in this world, and that is faith! whatever our circumstances are right now, whatever trials we're in right now i'm asking you to also accept it wholeheartedly like what i'm trying to do because God placed us in that position, status or circumstance for Him to be glorified. He will never leave you nor forsake you, he will be with you wherever you go, whatever you do, you just need to connect with Him.

Maybe you are like me before who said that "No, you don't understand i have no options already, i'm already shattered into pieces by these troubles i'm experiencing"

Guess what?

"... In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! i have overcome the world"
John 16:33
- Jesus

"Our lives are meant for trouble but we have a God whose size is double"

Keep the faith! 

until the next post

Abraham Lee

Experienced Learning

I've been working for two months now and i am getting used to with the regular routines we had at site. Funny because every time i would have a chat with someone (who's experienced already) at site, they would always tell me to gain experience for about 2-5 years, then apply for better opportunities abroad. I have no objections with what they say but i just thought that what if i could learn from them without really experiencing what they have encountered when they were learning? Then it should not take me 2-5 years before i could apply for better opportunities abroad! Bright idea isn't it? Well i can't say that it has a 100% success rate that i would learn and be as experienced as they are but the fact that they have shared a part of their experience with me and told me the mistakes they should have avoided, then somehow i felt like it added a 6 months experience to my CV ha!

Kidding aside, have you heard of a saying "Experience is the BEST teacher"?

Well one of my favorite speakers and coach told me through his book that "Other people's experiences are the best teacher"

I am very glad because i've learned a lot with that simple quote. The impact is inevitable, it has change the way i think and the way i see about learning something.

But there is one problem here,

What if the experienced person won't share his/her experience with me? Definitely i won't learn from him right?

That is why i believe that learning is also relational, having good relationships make learning more easier than studying it all by yourself. Why would you research if you can ask someone who have researched it already?

Here are some of my practical tips that i am also practicing to learn better

• Talk to older people longer than people within your age 
• Don't be complacent of what you know, there is always room for improvement 
• Don't believe the people who look down on you, they are just afraid when the time comes that they should look up on you 
• Almost everyone quits every now and then, if you haven't, it means that you are halfway there! 
• Honor your parents and love them! even if you are a MD, still mother knows best! 
• Don't preach what you do, Do what you preach. 
• Don't be too harsh on yourself if you fail just grab a sandwich, have a frappe and enjoy the learning process. 

I hope i have shared something again with you, until the next post 

Abraham Lee