Mid-Year Crisis - A must-have

Crisis.

Do we really need one?

I say, have one to not have a bigger one.

What I’m proposing is to have the Midyear Crisis!

I actually had one just recently, say yesterday! AhahaJ  I made it a good practice to take some short time to view back the past, but not dwell on it, and to foresee the future, but not be dazed.  Then I noticed, that it’s the end of June which will propel us to the start of July.  Okay. Wait! Did you say July? That’s a 7. As in there are only 12 in a year, and in a few hours we are entering 7.  Its not really a call for panic since I don’t really panic even during hold-ups.  But these crossed my mind:

Why do we not have a mid-year resolution when we have a new-year’s resolution?

Why do we not have mid-year crisis when we have a so called mid-life crisis?

Now, brace yourself, because I am about to tell you of the shortest way to find an answer.  That is to find it in the question.  WOAH?!  Did that blew your mind? Because when I learned that, I did blew mine.  Using this technique, we can say that - The answer is because of that!

We only have new-year resolutions because we do not have mid-year resolutions!  Makes less sense doesn’t it?  But wait.  Let us apply it one more time, and you’ll find it more interesting.  We have (or people have) mid-life crisis, because they do not have mid-year crisis.  Wait.  That sounds odd. Yes it does, but it’s true.

It’s like a much needed visit at your dentist, or a annual full body check-up that we keep missing.  And the fruit of these misses are?  Yes!  A full blown toothache, or probably a stage 3/4 CA (cancer)!  Nah! I’m just scaring you. Ahaha! J   The point is, when we fail to check in-between, we have lesser time to reach strong to the finish.   Many diseases, crisis, disasters, and things in general when noticed earlier are managed and prepared for better.

You need not wait for the year (or your life) to be near end to check.  Check now.  Are you still heading towards the direction you have set at the start? Are you getting there?  Will your current pace get you through there in time?  What could you have done better?  Have you become who you wanted to be?  Or do you still not know, who you wanted to become?  Do you want to be more loving? More giving?  Are you getting any nearer these goals?  What do you plan to do now?

Take a break.  Just a short break.  Have a mid-year crisis.  Just a mid-year crisis.

Even in crisis, you are loved, you are blessed.

Filling the Baskets

Preface:

OHHHH! This is so kwueeLL!!! (Cool)

I am writing.

A blog! (now nodding with eyes wide open and taking deep breathes with a grin.)

On a blog site!! (Tongue out..Holding my breathe this time.)  That’s got my name on it! (Breathe out.) Wahahaha! X_X  Well, at least somewhere it got my name on it. So much for the temporary emotional outburst, every writer deserves one – sometimes...and only sometimes.

This isn’t really my first shot at writing.  But this is my first shot at starting a dedicated undertaking of documenting my expedition.  I say first because I have seen many who have stumbled along this path, some paused, and some stopped.

My first barrier that many often find disheartening is – what else will I be writing about next?   I have foreseen an obstacle right when I was about to begin.  And so I shall start with it.

I remember of one man, among about 5000, who in a gesture and a few words gave thanks for something so little as two pieces fishes and five slices of bread.   With this done, all of them 5000 men excluding from the count their wives and children, had their fill.  Not only that, when this man’s friends took liberty of gathering what remained of the bread crumbs, and amazingly they packed 12 wicker baskets full.

Miracle?   I say it is.  But the greater mystery there left in this story is that this magic, is repeatable.  Let’s have a closer look.

It was more that simply sharing as we all share through blogs, texts, twits, and vocally.  And yet never in our day did we gather left over crumbs.  Often times, we were left with emptiness.  The special secret before the sharing part was the component of thanksgiving.  And note there, this wise man, gave thanks to what seemed so little and using it to invoke something so grand.  Similarly, when we share our little stories of victory over our little trials (being able to wake up at 6am as planned, stopping on the first hour of facebook Similarly, when we share our little stories of victory over our little trials (being able to wake up at 6am as planned, stopping on the first hour of facebook), we end up, giving our pieces of crumbs to the basket..and together, we will fill it, 12 wicker baskets full.