Holiday Blues...

I got myself up today when I heard the alarm ringing at 6am which I haven't heard for quite some time. Man, I had the toughest time to get myself up this morning to go to work.. Holidays are great but they aren't enough~!! arghh..gotta wait till Chinese New year then..sigh.. and now at work trying to literally 'WORK' but my eyes are closing while I tried to open my SQL browser..I guess we've always gotta look forward in life rather than to lay back, hoping that those holidays would come back again..

Anyway, just to express myself here and realized that 'holiday blues' are much more worse than just 'monday blues'..I wished I was still studying for my degree where I can take as much 'leave' as I want..muahaha...but again..those were the days...:(

Work, Work

Recently, I’ve started my working life after 23 years of studying and now I’ve got to settle down and start to contribute by using my past knowledge learnt and hopefully not forgotten, to help me to acquire earthly ‘wealth’ to support this feeble body and ever growling stomach. At the first glance, working life seems to be so exciting as I will be facing a whole new life of challenges, new life experiences, new life grieves, new life routines, and new life of BILLS!! After 5 months of work now, I’ve begin to realize that working life isn’t as nice as what I’ve thought before I started work. I mean I do expect it to be tough and challenging but I didn’t know it was THIS tough~! Nevertheless, it feels good to receive my wages after a whole month of toil. hehe

I started to wonder what made working life tougher than studying life, I mean I still study.. once in a while about new technologies but not those study-for-exams. It made my thoughts wonder and what I got was a gentle reminder of the curse that befell man when the fall of man happened in Genesis 3.

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“ Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”

Gen 3:17 - 19

Lets see what’s this second part of the curse meant. This was the second portion of the curse and it was targeted to Adam, well the first one was targeted to Eve in the previous verse. In the first line, ‘“ Cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life. “’, The ground was cursed and we have to toil to eat of its abundance all the days of our lives. In those times, Adam and Eve need not do anything to feed their stomachs or toil for food. They were given the freedom to eat of any fruit in the Garden of Eden except the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. But those times were gone, ever since Adam and Eve was exiled from the Garden after the sin that they have committed. That was not all, thorns and thistles start to grow forth from the ground making things much harder to achieve. I suppose those fruits that Adam and Eve was privileged to eat for free was gone as they have to toil to eat the herbs of the field thereafter. In my opinion, herbs are not as tasty as fruits. Hehe. Let’s see, fruits are sweet but herbs are bitter. Is there any significance about this? I would just see it that God’s blessing are sweet and is free, not purchasable and not attainable by our human strengths as God blesses whom He pleases and wills. On the other hand, trying to achieve something by our own human abilities is tough, and bitter. What do we get in return? ‘In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground’, bread for our stomach until we pass away and that requires us to sweat for it as well. That really shows us how tough work really is and how work is made tough through this curse.

Well, it all boils down to our attitude towards work itself. Nay, we can’t escape work or can we avoid it, (even though you might be rich, there’s still other form of work for you to do.) we can just accept it and be grateful that God cursed the ground instead of Adam himself. God loved man so much that He was willing to spare man from the curse and cursed the ground instead of Adam himself. After such thoughts, I felt that I’ve revitalized myself back to work. Keke..

Alright, Get back to work!~!