raison d'etre
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (11:55 PM)
it is perhaps the most asked question and many christian converts i've met have, at some point, been pondering about the very same question before signing on to the church.
i don't know how much answer one can get and i don't know how much answer i can offer. but at the very least, i can throw you one daring question.
do you work to live or live to work?
interestingly, i've only seriously tried to think about the question on my purpose of being some days ago and at the snap of a finger, this very question popped in my mind. no doubt it doesn't answer all my question. but at least it is guiding me to some direction in life.
we spend so much time trying to establish our career beginning as soon as we stepped into school. that was to prepare us for work and when we finally get out of school, we strive hard to climb the corporate ladder. we scrimp and save for the future but at the end of it all, what have we achieved? being part of a large corporation that may last for the next 158 years and go bankrupt overnight? whether it survives or not, we wouldn't have left any impression to anyone. much less any impression to ourselves. we can barely recall what we have done with our life. all we can see is what we have done to it. by then, it's done.
to answer the question i myself threw, i was almost living to work. now i'm working to live. at least i try...