This thing about complimentary opposites.

In the spirit of Valentines' Day...well, who ever said we need to be with that special someone? I did go and read the bible - Genesis, as IN so kindly helped guide me to the right section.. but i just wonder.. you know? Why must be with someone else? Cos man was not made to be alone? Hmm...

Then pls tell me how do people juggle career and family and their new nuclear family too! It's such a sheer amazing feat. Sure, there are great examples around but how they did it i have no idea.

Can't quite imagine the whole kids, family, marriage thing. It still seems unreachable somehow.. far separate from the career i want and the things i want to achieve in life.
I'm going to be TWENTY FIVE. It's not old, barely on the cusp of maturity, grace, the mere beginnings of fulfillment of all the things that we've always wanted.

Work was interesting today. I'm slowly but surely getting acquainted with each of my colleagues. I love getting to know them as individuals and for who they are first, apart from their "work persona" and their positions, hierarchy in the organisation.

This thing about work ethic.. who we are as people, who are the ones that are like us.. show the integrity that we value, these are the ones who gain the respect of others through leading by example, servant leadership as we used to call it back in 24th S.C. in SA.

Chatting with XL today.. i REALLY miss SA.. not just the simplicity of it all but how we used to take things so seriously.. i don't know why! haha and how LIFE just seemed to loom ahead of us then.. sharing my scrapbook with her today i can just recall how everything once was so simple and yet so real. The feelings remain and the shared memories will always be there. It is the very reason we are still so close as friends. My councilors will always hold a special place in my heart and i do hope that one day we will be able to take another trip together again.
It's sad that some of us have drifted apart but largely, i believe we're still very much in contact and very much close and love each other to bits! The jokes... the camaraderie, that's never going to go away and we know it.

JC and Council days seem to be a microcosm of life as it is now. Working life, the politics, the minefields but i maintain this dictum and i won't budge on it. Live your life, Be yourself and Speak your Truth quietly and clearly. (Desiderata) No one can fault you for that. "Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence"

It brings to mind the bench by the Brisbane River.. just behind the rowing club. I miss my lone walks there in the mornings or with my mum when she visited. The bench looked like such a peaceful spot it just lured me to it. Upon closer inspection, it confirmed my initial hunch, someone used to come to this very spot, rest for a little while and just sit, watching the river, watching the sky turn from dawn to daylight...it is a beautiful skyline... peaceful and simply quiet.

There was a poem inscribed on the bench...i hardly recall the words...
...but the words simply spoke to me and i remember feeling like i'd "met" a kindred spirit.

ML