2021 ended with a brilliant pink bang -- at least from the view of Jurong Lake. Just my privilege to watch fireworks over the lake for the first time since residing here.
Two evenings ago, I was feeling as old and tired as the year, though not the least nervous of crossing over into the new year. After all, is there something in the old that I would relish staying in, especially in a second pandemic year of circuit-breakers (the soft word for lockdowns in Singapore)? My physical circuit of friendships and kinship was also broken for some months as I only got vaxxed in December. On August 26, I also lost my dear friend Wendy who passed on shortly after contracting the Covid-19 virus. November 3 resurrected an ache in my heart that I'm unsure if I'll ever recover from. It was Dad's first anniversary of passing into glory. December 22 brought a deep regret in my heart as I received news of the passing of a former company leader I worked with. You see I've been tracking him down to pay him a visit to no avail for a couple of years, just to discover that we live within the same estate through the obituary.
But life here goes on. I'm almost at the tail end of renovating my new home. Grateful there were options to get furniture and fittings in lesser known zones and remote, less visited showrooms. Thank God for technology where interior design could be discussed online and purchases could be made virtually. In this new year, in this new month, I'll be in a new place or rather travelling into relative unknown.
The thin line between crossing borders of space and time quite often is in our own mind. If the brain travels in a linear fashion, there'd be an end at some point. Then again, it's a lot more complex, connected. It works like a circuit. It travels backwards to look forward. It travels inside to look outside.
In a regulated world, we obey rules for walking, driving, working, consuming, occupying, moving -- socially, laterally, within circles. Apart from regulation, can the human brain afford to move by free-falling over time and space?
What if I decide today in 2022 to disconnect from my circuit? Just stop relating with everything familiar and consider doing life in an uncertain, new dimension?
"By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going."
Hebrews 11:8 NKJV
It was so lovely meeting you today! I hope you're enjoying your time in Vietnam, Bee! And your blog is such an inspiration.
Arum