Dear Writer
Version 1.3 — These Shall Soon Come To A Pass
Dear Norlisa,
Resiliency is your key to living life to the fullest. Do you see that?
Well, marketing taught you it’s all about brands as good as shouting over the loudspeaker to be heard and seen.
You are starting to learn how to make a brand of yourself only to realize faster that you are more than just an occupational title.
Yes.
You are more than just an occupational title, salary, or an educational certificate. ‘Manager’ is just a title, nothing more. ‘Religious teacher’ is just a title, nothing more.
You are extraordinary.
You set yourself apart to be different from the crowd.
You are brave.
You stormed life without your close ones by your side.
You left your country on your own without moral support.
You lived in a country where their currency was very low.
The grass is never always greener on the other side. You had seen how people stooped low in self-pitying to make others spend on their needs.
You left again to a country still recovering from the aftermath of war. You stayed in the worst condition of poverty where food was scarce — Yemen. But you realized not all of Yemen was in poverty. Many are still dying of hunger and thirst, but other places are developing slowly.
You came back after braving so many storms in Yemen. You were the only Singaporean surrounded by other Asians. Another Singaporean came, but a lot of the situation was already so much better for her.
They think you are rich just because you are a Singaporean. As usual, who would not take advantage of the national currency value? Hell! They do not know how it feels like to live in such an expensive country.
You learned that people resort to all sorts of manipulations for surviving.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the world.
You are not far from your goals. You are not a failure. Failures are those who define their success by job titles, salaries or educational certificates.
Failure is not about marital status. People marry but do not have children. There are married people who, behind closed doors, always have a lot of family problems. People have a complete family, but their frictions and fragmentation, or selfish race in life never end.
Failures are people who only live restricted by their titles in jobs and wealth. Knowledge will not remain all the time. One by one, these became a loss. They will be lost too.
Their final days only come with the questions and reflections like “What is my purpose in this life? I only want peace. I no longer chase after a career at my age.” Blah blah blah.
Three-quarters of their life was gone with their ‘titles’. Near to the time death greets, that will be the time most of the people started to become like Saints.
No wonder it is when we are dead that we live.
Hey, Norlisa…
These shall soon come to a pass. You will be what you are written to be. Have faith. Hold onto hope. Some journey takes a longer time. Your closed ones took long years affecting everyone else too.
It is not about their hard work. They would not be where they are today if they hadn’t gotten the others around to be their backbones too. The only difference you can do is, do not be like them. Do it right.
Do not live life as grab a candy bag and run away or stay far from those who are poorer.
Do not be like those who only come forward to apologize so that others will sacrifice their life again, for other people’s interests. They will still have a lot on their plate that they wanted to chew. They will never be satiated.
How about you? You need to live.
Be kind to yourself. It won’t matter what others think or say anymore. Be the authentic you.
Live every moment to your best. All these shall soon come to a pass.
Live well. That is all that matters.
Norlisa, remember you are worth it!
