the beacon

I gave thought to the role my significant half plays in my life. As we perused into our savings plan and target for the year, his role became evident – a beacon.

Definition from Wikipedia

A Beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

Beacons help guide navigators to their destinations.

We discussed how we should budget our spendings, how much we intend to have at the end of the year, how we can plan for a holiday... our plan for the coming year..our studies.. he has helped mould my thinking into one that looks afar. No more living for the day..now it’s living for the days ahead.

I remember telling him one day I don’t see anything at the end of the tunnel – in regards to work. He told me, “It’s ok if you don’t see the end. Just have to see the light.”

To me that is powerful as indeed that’s life. No one can fully predict and be totally sure what we will become in the next few decades to come.. but we have ideas and dreams conjured in our minds of where we want to be, what we want to have. These goals are collectively the light that should guide us through.

The burden of work and studies weighed upon me heavily since the start of the 2nd term. There was a lot of dissatisfaction in me since I got to know the pay disparity too. Yet all that gloom gradually dissipated after dearie guided me to understand there are greater things ahead to look forward to; rather than to dwell in the present.

And I concur with what Ma says, “what comes after bitterness will be sweetness”.

I have a beacon in my life – he shines the way to go when I get lost in the dark. And I realize one thing too: You can only see the light if you lifted your head up. When you kept your head hanging low and faced to the ground, you become oblivious to the light.

Hang on, dear friends. We are all in this journey together. We will reach the end of the tunnel. =)