Life is such an incredibly adept leveler. It always amazes me.
I just finished up with a truly amazing 1 week experience at RealAcad at Stanford last week – I learnt lots, had tons of fun, made new friends and strengthened bonds with the old.
And since I got back to Singapore yesterday, things have been in, for want of a better word, a bit of a mess. I guess it comes with having a huge backlog of things to catch up with, work emails flying in now that I am back from vacation and the like. However, there were a couple of incidents that made me admire life’s leveling abilities even more..
– I came home yesterday and realized that I couldn’t find my house keys. So, I was locked out of home for quite a while – dishevelled, tired as hell etc
– A couple of small downers that I can’t talk about here also propped up dutifully at the very same moment
– The moment I felt it most was this morning when I took my laundry out of the Washing Machine. I had been carrying around my International Driving Permit in my formal pant and had forgotten to take it off. I saw it in beautiful wet bits..
And that was just 2 hours before realizing that I might be on a project in the EU for a little while and sighing gratefully that I did renew my permit in time.
As you can tell, I learnt quite a few things –
1. Take photocopies of all important documents! Multiple photocopies!
2. Check your pants before throwing them in the laundry as they often have important stuff in them.
3. When things go wrong – they go wrong altogether.
4. It doesn’t require 1 big incident to make things feel ‘bad’. A combination of small things have just as much of a devastating effect.
5. Accepting things after a bad phase is part of the game. These things DO happen no matter what and it wouldn’t feel like life if there were no challenges.
6. Moping/’Having your reaction’ is okay – but only for a little while.
Lots to learn and time to move on.
A Learning a Day 