Why I'm not looking back

Yey! Today is a perfect time to update my blog (finally!) :-) I'm currently alone at the office since none of my office mates are here yet... and yes, we have work at Saturdays.

For those of you who are wondering what happened to me... well, I'm doing GREAT. It's quite surprising how people say or even notice that I never looked back. But okay, let me explain that later and allow me to tell you what happened to me for the past several months...

Some of you already know this... I'm now an official adult and I've said farewell to student life. I was blessed to have a work that offers a good pay for newbies like me. And that's not the only catch - my work is in the field of Intellectual Property (meaning patents and trademarks). It's amazing! I'm earning and learning a lot at the same time. But let me tell you this, it took me a lot of prayers and fasting before I got this job. It's really humbling and I'm saying this because until now, my work humbles me everyday. It really tells me that I'm truly a work under progress! :) That's why I hang on to God day by day. I feel that I cannot survive this world without Him.

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Preparing for the future

Honestly, I have a very personal reason why I preferred not to look back. It's nothing bad though, as I had a wonderful past. It's just that I told myself to concentrate on the future because I believe that what lies ahead is more important. Sure thing, I'm very grateful for everything that happened to me - I don't have any regrets and if I were to live my life again, I wouldn't change anything.

We are all promised a good life here on earth but we also have a choice if we will follow our destiny or not. I was promised a great destiny, a life so blessed that what I didn't achieve in the past will not matter anymore. Before we work and be in the "real world" we all think that our own little worlds is actually the real thing, but when we move on in our lives we realize that there's more to it than what we think. We will not be students forever. We will not be working for the rest of our lives, but we will be blessed for all eternity if only we will allow That One Powerful Being to touch our lives. It's not easy, I tell you. Our lives are not perfect and you can say that you can compare it to a fairy tale - serious problems will come but if you hold on and fight for your life, your reward of a happily ever after will come.

This is the reason why I chose to hold on to the future. I want that happily ever after that I will get someday at the right time. I cannot change my past anymore and no matter what I do in my present it's still there, so why do I need to dwell on it? For now, I'm trying to live a life that God wants for me. I may not know what my reason for being alive is yet, but I'm certain that I'm created for God's purpose - not for other people, not for the world.

Someday when it's the right time for me to look back, I will definitely have a story to tell. And that for me will be exciting. But it won't happen now, not anytime soon. Nevertheless, I do hope that all of us, will someday, have our own tales to tell to inspire and encourage one another and not to brag and show off. As I'm being equipped for a life of Godly purpose, I know I have to concentrate. Imagine this: I'm doing some strokes and swimming my way to reach that end of the pool. My Coach tells me, "Concentrate, Cryx. Concentrate." And I in turn listen to my coach and do my very best to reach my goal. If I stop and look back will I reach my target? Of course not. So that's what I'm currently doing. I'm being equipped and at the same time, I'm listening, striving and concentrating. And that I think is what everyone should do. Get up and move...

Concentrate.

For a perfect life is waiting for us, out there... In our future...