Independence Day

Long long time ago, there was already the problem that Father Hedgehog is not pleased with the Hedgehog Son. It did not help that Hedgehog Son failed one major test and Father Hedgehog harped and harped on Hedgehog Son. Father Hedgehog no longer wanted anything to do with the failure Hedgehog Son and ordered him to get out.

Mother Hedgehog and Sister Hedgehog were sad. However, Father Hedgehog holds the highest authority or rather Mother Hedgehog and Sister Hedgehog did not want to aggravate matters. So to appease the rule of majority, Hedgehog Son is therefore declared to be abandoned.

Fortunately for Hedgehog Son, he got to know of a very good and close friend who helped him find a new place to live. The friend also helped by listening and consoling Hedgehog Son.

Now Hedgehog Son is on his way to be finally independent!

New values - Prestige and Glam

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Drained...

I am being attacked by emotional leeches. I am now literally going to be homeless unless I find a place soon. (Let me know if there is any place for me to stay lol) And on top of all these, there have to be other issues piled up together. It really coincides with Murphy's laws, just that I forgot to obey the most important clause - Prepare. I have not really prepared myself mentally and emotionally.

Yet I know things will work out. The other aspects are already being prepared along the way, to make transition smoother. They will work out, not because they have to work out, but I believe they will work out. I am already visualising my new place which I hope to call 'my home' for some time.

P.S. Do you know that due to our tampering with Mother Nature, even these sort of medicinal leeches are going to be endangered?

Re-defining 'Coming Home'

I would never know. Life itself is full of twists for Man can change so that they can grow.

I remember that despite numerous embarrassing rejections, I fought my way back home even when I am not welcomed. I fought because I believed that I had a responsibility to her.

After 6 years, pushed to her last fortification, she then realises she cannot have the best of both worlds. She has to sacrifice one, so that she can have the other. She is needed more at the other to take care of the majority of the family whom she knows they would not be able to take care of themselves.

Her fight is over. She has finally decided to settle for the greater good. And that also means the discarding of the lesser - me.

I forgive myself and her and others, so that I can be free from them and they can be free from me. At the end, I have to find my home where the search has been postponed for so long due to the wilfulness of myself and some others.

For now, a word for the emotional being of myself - homeless.

View ourselves in the mirror

In the line of people developers, we all know that one of the best methods to train personnel would be to lead by example. We always give this advice, to only find out we are not walking the talk.

We love to be late while preaching punctuality.

We love to consume extravagantly while preaching good saving habits.

We love to complain while preaching positivity.

We love to think that we are masters of our own fate while preaching compromising and giving in to others.

... blah blah blah...

So why is accepting yourself - your flaws and strengths - considered incorrect? Walk the talk. Talk the walk. Otherwise, we are just imposing on others.

Supermen and Superwomen

Being supermen and superwomen, instead of doing what we should be doing, we should let others know what we are capable of by doing other stuff as well.

To show that we are sincere in our philosophy, some of us went to be part-time volunteers by cleaning the void decks of HDB blocks. (No. of blocks not less than 10)

To show our perseverance, we would spend 10 minutes of fiddling with the uncooperative speaker rather than raise our voices to just deliver a one-sentenced instruction.

To show our positiveness, we would never acknowledge the negative aspects even if they may hit us right on in our faces.

This is our pledge to be Uber men and Uber women.

Short-sightedness

Called in by Lady Boss.

"What's your preference?" she asked, as according to a few choices I could have for my future job scope for the next half a year.

"Well, I am really interested in option C," I replied. To be positive, to show understanding, I have to add in, "Of course, that is just my preference. I will still adhere to the organisation's needs."

Lady Boss nodded and repeated my added point too, as if I do not fully understand that. She said, "I called you in to find out about your preferences, so we can decide on your deployment."

Sounds nice and understanding. 100 points to consideration. Then, (lol), things went down the drain, when she said, "We were thinking of giving you option A."

Hmm... So they have actually already decided. Crap... I have erred in the very beginning. My preference should be what they have thought in the first place.

The whole thing really felt like a game. I did not understand the rules then. I have to start revising my leadership course I took - Let them think they have their choices. Let them feel that you sympathise and empathise with them. SO THAT they would be less resistant to the decisions that affect them.

Weird game.