To say that I appreciate the people around me is an overstatement. I wish I am the caring, compassionate guy who repays kindness with gratitude. Yet I often fail to ponder and cherish those around me, until they walk away from my life.
Today, I began to appreciate the power of relationships. Or maybe it is one of the countless episodes of realisation which I ended up forgetting.
To err is simply human. It is only when we lose something that we begin to appreciate the things that we once had.
I happened to browse through my old bullet journal’s entries. The end of 2018 is approaching and I am figuring out whether I should get a new Rhodia notebook or decide to go ‘digital’.
In it was an earlier entry where I wrote about “the things I love about my peers and colleagues”.
I remembered why I care for them.
These are my tribe, the ones who would go all out of their way to support me for who I am.
As I read through the list, I felt ashamed at how I once used to be so close with them, and now I simply neglect them all.
Neglect is easy because you don’t have to do anything much to let time drift us apart.
Rekindle with our relationship
Without relationships, I think the world would be a very bleak place. I began messaging them one by one, I slowly reconnect.
I felt a warmth in my cold heart. With my relationship with God, with my people and not forgetting my cat.
I am trying, and so should you.
To err is human, to realise is divine.
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