Contentment

It's just when things in your life are going so well, when you seem to be keeping busy, when everything seems fulfilling, that you have to be even more careful, to cut out the unecessary from your life, to strive for excellence, to keep seeking out the company of people important to you, not to be too busy or caught up in your work to have time for people.

To find the time to laugh, to share, to spend time together even in silence or working together, enriching each other's lives.

To treasure every phone call, every snatched, hurried MSN conversation.

At times like these you realise that the person is more important than productivity, that principles behind doing things are more important than the problems, that progress is more important than programs (Wee Leon's words). You realise that behind everything you are doing, there has to be growth and change. You cannot stay stagnant.

Contentment is a great thing, but I am always slightly wary of it because I tend to sit back and think that there's nothing else to do. And there's so so much to do, so many people around, no time to waste. Make every second count, because there's never going to be another like it ever again.