And so, what is LIFE? Everytime I ask my dearest girlfriend of 14 years now, she answers me smack in the face - Life is Happiness! Everytime I do something different, and worry if that is right, she asks, 'are you happy?'. Yes, In pursuit of LIFE, inevitably translates to, In pursuit of Happiness. The natural question to ask next will be, how to get happiness? or even, WHAT is Happiness?
Is being able to do what you like Happiness? To put it simply, is going to Sakae to eat your favourite sushi Happiness? Or is sharing a meal of nasi lemak meal with your child, happiness? Is being a writer happiness, or is spending more time taking mummy out, happiness? Maybe you're so into fashion you want to live your life revolving around it, but if it takes you away from your loved ones, will you still find happiness in it?
I guess, this is how humans grow. As you grow, you learn what's important to you, you re-learn your priorities. You re-visit what can be done to achieve your priorities. You grow to see that some habits, passions and interests have to give way to more important priorities. You feel old after making yet another life-changing decision - to study in SMU or NUS? to work in the Hospital or to go Private? Simple true or false decisions, yet how impactful they can be. How much such simple decisions can make a difference in the way one lives his/her life and how one has grown after one concludes on a simple decision. After you've concluded you will study in SMU, you learn your strong inclination towards business side of events better. You probably realise that the city location of your school makes the cause of your decision all fall into place.
Whatever your decision may be, you fall into happiness after you've made it. That's the RIGHT decision, whatever it is. Congratulations!
