I am jobless and happy!

I've people coming up to me wanting to know what made me want to do what i am doing now--- or rather a career switch. i do feel good when someone made an effort to ask this question.

Not because that i am aloft of achieving my current role ( yes, i am proud of what i am doing, but that's not the entire reason); but because they discover this desire to make a leap for themselves too--- i am just mirroring their burning desire.

Of course, i am always happy to share with them:)

Very simply--- " i don't like to wear formal attire and walk in high heels." I can't imagine myself doing the things i dislike daily. 

To rephrase the whole idea of doing what i used to do/ study--- instead of a career change, i just booted myself out from a job. There's a huge difference between job hops, career changes and... jobless. A career change may means jumping from one hole to another, still doing a job. 

I did not make any career change, i choose not to work in a job, because i want to live the way i wanted to. Neither a job nor a career. If ever i feel that i am working in a job, i am not living. 

Teaching classes come to me as weekly gathering for information sharing. Appointments comes to me as meeting up with friends. Personal yet professionally done. 

If you are reading this post, and pondering over a plan for a step forward to colorful days, its time to do something for yourself; else, don't complain about how badly life has been treating you! 

Honestly, i had my struggles and waves of fear hovering over me at one point--- all i did was to grip hold on faith tightly. ( not forgetting my teacher who showed me that there's such thing as "faith".)

If you're reading this post, and you're one of those great warriors who went through this roller coaster for a happier day, i believe we'll bump into one another someday. 

If you believe in the things you are doing, allow the people around you to grow with you...

To touch the lotus feet

Back to practice in my teachers' class, its just that something that i'd been always wanted to do yearly. Be it that this has become a yearly routine that i fits into my schedule book---  its something i want to do it for my own learning journey.

Ever since i'm out about teaching, most of my practices has been done at home. I do miss attending yoga classes, just being a student, listening to instruction and practice. I do miss adjustments ( because no one at home knows how to do it)--- instead of gentle touches, i prefer good -tight- pack ones.

Today, i'm back to that cozy studio along the stretch of shop houses in Arab street, just for practices.

In most time i am standing in the role of a teacher; for now, i want to take a switch in place to be the student. Once my teacher said that eventually, the student has to be on their own to learn; but until when this time really arrives.... i am still savoring my time being a student.

There're too many flourishing facilities oriented yoga spaces in city like Singapore.
I like it Masala- style. Just like those shalas in India. No chair, no air-con, no sofas. Carry your own mat, flip it on the ground, chat with the teacher and practice.

The teacher, the learners, the lessons.

We do not need to know "how" or "where",

but there is one question that we should all ask

whenever we start something:

" what am i doing this for?"

~ The Valkyries

 

Departure is Arrival

When time is up, people have to leave.

Sometimes with a bid goodbye;

sometimes they rushed off.

Its not the end of their journey yet, just moving on to the next phrase of life.

Be happy for them, for embarking towards a new journey.

Every death born a birth.

Every end starts a beginning.

Every dusk brings a dawn.

Every cry carries a joy.

Its a cycle we can't see, but we can witness.

We're either standing here, or there.

Stand neither here nor there;

Step away and see this as a whole.

Like every sleep, we travel towards awakening.

Moan if we must to get through our selfishness 

of not letting them go.

Set freedom to death for a new living.