I miss my colleagues, Laurel and Jassine. More specifically, I miss those spa party period where we slogged till 10pm in the office. Hmmm and also many of those dining and shopping time that we shared! People always lament that it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. But thankfully, I’ve found really good friends in my workplace, people whom I can joke and play around with and also be myself. Something Laurel always tell me when I said I will never do this or I’ll do that, and that is “Never say never.” It’s very true! It shocks me to know how fast I was proven wrong. A few instances that happened recently brought what she said to memory. Like, how I always say I will never go and eat fattening food on my own accord. BUT, just last week, I had Mac, Long John and creamy pasta. I thought with much confidence that I will never touch durian ice cream, but I had a huge bowl yesterday afternoon. After conquering the meat buffet at Donna Carmela, I told myself once is enough, I will never try that anymore, but looks like I’m gonna take that back as well. So in short, never say never.
Though these are small issues, which I am glad they are, they still serve the same purpose of reminding me, pride comes before a fall. When we are too confident about certain stuff, it can subtly leads to pride. I don’t think I have to illustrate on how pride causes us to stumble. Just nice, Pastor was preaching on Numbers 5 and the same lesson surfaces. To put things into context, the women in that era were not of the same status as men. They were considered as the weaker and more dependent gender. Women also spent most of their time if not all, indoors or rather confined. As such, it brings us to think about why Moses in Numbers 5 mentioned the test for an unfaithful wife and not husband. Aren’t guys more prone to extramarital affair? So why test for the wives since they spent most of their time at home?
THE UNTHINKABLE CAN HAPPEN.
Just because all the leads tune us to think that women are less prone to extramarital affair shouldn’t make us any more confident that it will never happen. NEVER SAY NEVER. Cos it does! All in all, I’m exuberant to be disarmed of my pride in certain areas. Praise the Lord!
This is the start of another mugging week, till then, I shall learn to stay afloat amidst my notes.
May no gift be too small to give, too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
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