Tuna Melt Panini
by shz
I have greater appreciation of my parents since I start working.
I mean, how do you do this? 5 days a week, 9am – 5.30pm? For the rest of your life? And at the end of the day you feel like you brain is practically dead and there are only few hours left in your life for that day to eat, watch tv, read and sleep. You’re even lucky if you can do three. And just when you thought your life is starting to unfold during the weekend, it folded eighty two again on Monday.
So this is adulthood feels like.
I remember when I was 16 I couldn’t wait to grow up and start a career like this. Have my own place to do whatever I want, buy a car and have the freedom to be whereever I want. Earn my own money and buy stuffs that I don’t need. Not so great, really. For some reason it feels like the more you get, a lot more you lose.
I remember one morning I bought my favourite tuna melt panini at this one sandwich shop where I am a regular, and I asked the owner why did he close the Sunday before when he usually doesn’t? And he said that his helper quitted and it was weekend. He wanted to be with his family.
“You know, there’s more to life than just working..” he mumbled between the salad he was cutting and my overpressed panini. It was so true. I mean, how can we start living when all we need in life is money?
Now, that is one justification that I need not to take my work so seriously.
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yes. very true. being with our family, make us feel so complete. 🙂
i learned a very big lesson when my body gave up and i fainted flat of the station pavement late last year. broke my back teeth and cut my chin :Pwork is not everything.money is not everything.mental health is.physical health is.family is.old habits die hard,but i try to remember that these days ^-^
yeay! dah menulis balik..keep on menulis ok:D
i believe that if we have passion in our work, then money is no longer the main factor in our life.That passion gives our life A LIFE.& perhaps, with that, we wouldnt mind the long working hours,the work stress, etc..nway, i’m not saying that u dont hav passion in ur work. I believe u put everything in ur work rite?& somehow, i can see that ur passion shows in ur nice images.. =)but, maybe we need a break once in a while during our working life…or..just simply by going back to our origin…back to our religion perhaps….?*however i do find it ironic when we talk about family, health,etc, but in the real sense, money still gives us our life..it all finally ended up in one big circle of life..so, maybe what’s important is how we appreciate the world in our heart..nite =)
I am a bloody workamanic. I can’t sit well if there’s no single work to be done. I can’t think straight when my tasks haven’t completed yet. Am truly fond of what I am having right now, the great career, the big money I make, the living I’ve never felt I’ll have, it completes everything.When I was a kid, I was like you too. Thinking of having a pool of money like in the Donald Duck cartoon series where his nephews swam in the pond of gold coins. It was so salivating at that time thinking of having such amount of money and having the chance of buy anything you want, anything you need, anything that you never dreamt to have before.But as what people might suggest, good life doesn’t come just like that. It doesn’t just appear in front of your eyes waiting for a perfect time to be grabbed. It will never happen as such. The road of what you choose right now and the career you’re in right now, is the sole dream of you’ve imagined when you were a kid. It does come true in the end. How lucky you are to achieve something you’ve been dying to have since you were a little toddler. Come to think of that, you are lucky. Lucky enough to make your parents proud of your achievement. Of what you’re grabbing right now. Of buckets of sweats that prickled along the journey of your sheer ability.And what makes them even more happy, the money they’ve spent doesn’t waste into the bin.Family is a pail of gems. Career is the vein of your living. Money makes you breathe. Regards,Zubaidah Arshad
Sarsi : I guess it is a bit hard when you can only be average in your real job, knowing you can be excellent in something else.. if you know what I mean.Zubaidah Arshad : Many thanks for your reply. Alhamdulillah on the job actually. It doesn’t happen to everyone, especially it’s quite ideal considering the location, the pay and the lack of UK experience. I’m just a bit shocked with the trasition from student life to working life. I used to have 3 days (not even full) of work and 4 (always full) days of play. Now there’s only 2 to play and they’re even filled with compulsary stuff you have to do like catching up with long sleep, laundry, reading, sorting out bills …. In short there’s no time to play. Why can’t they do 4 days of working instead of 5? Oh, my silly complaints.I guess my parents are satisfied of me, considering they’re both architects too. Sometimes I can feel from their tones that the mission is accomplished. But mine isn’t. I have other dream that they might not approve, which I don’t think at this point I will care since I completed theirs.I just don’t want to be too materialistic. Not wanting this to be all just about money but means beyond that. I guess that is.
You’ve just gotten the taste of worklife. But there’s so much joy too, unfortunately as there are obstacles, which largely depends on how you perceive them really. You’ll muddle though well I’m sure :)Being average in one that’ll help you be excellent in another? Nothing wrong with that I’d say ;)Family and… friends…They’re the ones that’ll ensure you’ll stay sane, who’s there to hear your cries, to celebrate you successes etc etc. They bring meaning to life. Bless their beautiful hearts.And may we be blessed by Him always, InsyaAllah.