Few weeks ago I managed to locate a friend who I have not seen for ages through internet. Well, to be precise, it was his blog (which makes me want to start one for myself) that I found and not the person in physical form. And so I spent whole night reading his posts, trying to see what has he been up to during all this years.
He was 3 years younger than me and yet he finished his professional course faster than I did. You see, I’m not a very bright student and I failed many times on my professional course, and it takes me 5 years to complete compare to an average student that takes about 3-4 years. I have to re-sit the same exam papers over and over again before I can proceed to another paper and there are times I do feel that I am the oldest student sitting for a particular exam paper. And that is also how I met a guy 3 years my junior.
He was just an ordinary guy when we met and we become close friends, but within one year he became so famous that he was appointed as a student president of the professional course that we were taking. The college that we studied recruited him even before he graduated.
After graduate, we went on a separate path, we still meet regularly then but it stopped after some time. He was married the last time I heard but something terrible happen (I do not wish to disclose what happen here) not long after his marriage. Anyhow, from his blog, he seems to have got over with the incident and now back on his own feet. But he also seems to stay low now. What I meant was he no longer the type of person who seeks for glory (unlike when we met long time ago). I guess the incident hit him very hard.
But compare to him, I never search for glory at my entire life. While this guy have tea with some billionaire at some restaurants (that this what he claimed), I play online games in office. While the 1st thing he looks for in the newspaper is the business section, I look for the comic section. He enjoy being famous, while I enjoy staying low (but I do feel envy sometimes), even thought he claimed that he stay low now yet I somehow feel he can’t stay there for long.
Sometimes I wonder, am I too simple? I sometime feel ashamed of myself, a person holding a managerial position and never read business section and yet his staffs do? There are times when I hang out with my friends and all they talk about is the current business/market situation and I would like have no idea what there are talking about. Age 35 and still act like a child yet I have 2 children at home, silly isn’t it.
But then again, looking back at what I have achieved, I am not all that bad. I don’t have to go through the pain that he had, I have a beautiful family, my own house, well more on this on my next blog. Well, yes, I may not be as rich as he is (in term of money) but I’m doing things that I like, I do not have life-schedule to follow (resolution is life-schedule for me), I do things as and when I feel like to and I bring foods to my family and above that my family need not think twice to spend (of course I’m referring to average stuff, not too luxurious stuff). Well, at least I’m looking at the business section in the newspaper now, although it is not the 1st thing that I will look at.
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