Cherish the people around you!

It is my last day of work today. I have two colleagues who are cute. They placed something on my desk without mentioning who the givers are. I have to go around hunting for them. I know who one of them is while the other one seems mysterious to me. I am very distracted now. I am doing research on the organization where I will be going for an interview, chatting with friend on Facebook, finding out more on the Safari Run, replying email on my handover of items before I leave at 3pm, etc. This is how I work. I tend to open many windows on my computer screen and working on a few things at the same time. My colleagues asked me if I feel sad leaving the organization. My answer is a No. Maybe, I have got used to changing organizations. Life experience has taught me parting is part and parcel of life. Nowadays, I do not feel upset people leaving the places as I have got used to it. As long as they are leaving for good and better future, I give them my blessings. I will never hinder anyone from leaving just because I can’t let go. Life has to move on. People who want to stay will stay. People who should leave will still leave one day. No matter what decisions we make, to stay or to leave, we have to look into our hearts and ask God and ourselves. If the Holy Spirit prompts me to go, then I go.




I have just finished watching a TVB Hong Kong series on Forensic cases. Very interesting. One theme stands out in the show which is to cherish the people around me. In the show, one of the female characters died as she used her body to shield her boyfriend from the gunshot by a perverted man. In reality, will anyone do that? I personally doubt. Well, that is beside the point. The point is the female character just became the man’s boyfriend. He was promising her to go Atlantic to watch penguins with her and yet at the next moment, she died in front of her. Life is really fragile. During last week, other than the three people whom I have mentioned are very sick at the verge of death at anytime, I received another news from my church friend that my ex formation leader has 4th stage of liver cancer and the cancer has spread in his body. He would always invite me to his house during every Christmas since I knew him even though he did hear some rumours about me. But, I have stopped going since the year before last since I have started leaving the church and I see it pointless to mingle with them. Never have I expected to hear such bad news about him. I have smsed him and emailed him but no reply. Well, I have prayed for him. Maybe, he needs quite time alone to accept the fact about his illness. All I can do is to let him know that I still care for him as a friend and will be with him in my prayers.



Cherish the people around you. They may seem fit and healthy running around. But, I will never know who will suddenly be hit by any diseases or accident or even sudden death. Sometimes, I do take for granted that the people are always there daily, especially towards these people whom I see everyday at work or home or even among friends. I should say that my life is pretty much unpredictable. Sometimes, I am struck with a few bad news within one day which are about life and death matters. Whether I like it or not, this is the kind of life I have beyond my control. The only thing I can control is myself, my response. The only way of not living or even leaving with regrets is to spend quality time with the people in my life while they and I are around. No point crying over spill milk complaining and lamenting and blaming when people are gone suddenly.



Cherish the people around you. It is silly to keep thinking that the pasture is greener somewhere (even though it is true at times but not all times) when the treasures are already in your life. These treasures are none other than the people around you. They are not coincidental there in your life out of the billions and billions people in the world. Some seemingly difficult people are there to help you to grow up to your potential, to be more complete. Some are there as kind angels to comfort and encourage you. Blaming others will only blind you from growing up.



Cherish the people around you while you can. Is there anyone you are neglecting due to your busyness and distraction? Well, this season is the season of giving since Christmas is drawing. Giving may not be necessarily physical gifts. Towards people whom you have held grudges against, forgiving them is a gift for you have given them the mercy of God through the acting of forgiving them yourself. Spending quality time is the best gift for time can never be bought. It will never increase but decrease gradually. It is much better than money as you are giving part of your life by spending part of it with them. Physical items made or bought are things afterall. Nothing can be warmer than being there physically with them with your blessed human warm body expressing the abstract Love which can not be easily felt and experienced without the physical body as the instrument of Love.



Time for me to move on in my career. I seriously need to see how I can upgrade myself. Many people have nagged me about it. Almost all my friends are graduated or graduating from the universities. I seem to be wandering around like soulless body. Hopefully, I can get into marketing or corporate communication field. My RO asked me to look for a job where I can use my mouth to earn a living since I can speak well with wit. I am not sure if she is right. I lift it up to God. This is my last time using my existing laptop. I do not own any laptops since I have been blessed with new laptops for work in the organizations that I am rendering my services to. Goodbye to my organization today! I am free to wander again. No matters where I go, I will cherish the people around me until I leave the places or they leave me so that I will never live or leave with regrets. Cherish the people around you!

With Love,
Elena