Making a Life, Not a Living
Been contemplating a lot lately about the current status of my life, I guess this is what they say a phase called Saturn Return. Let’s see if it is indeed Saturn making a come back. According to my astronomical reading, my Saturn return will happen from September 3, 2007 to October 29, 2009. (Check!) Saturn return according to the book I’ve read is a time in a person’s life when Saturn returns to its original position when the person was born. It usually happens when a person is about to reach the age of 30. (Check!) -Yes, the big 3-0 is on the onset.- It is a time when a person starts to rethink about the life he has lived, about his purpose and decides to make a drastic move to start his life anew. (Check!) With three check marks there, it’s absolutely certain that there’s no one to blame but Saturn doing a “Mac Arthur” for my recent introspective and emotional streak.
Recent events in the office prompted me to think about whether I’m happy with the life I’m living. Lately, I’ve been spending up to 15 hours of my day inside the four walls of the office. You would ask how come?! Actually, 15 hours is still not enough with the avalanche of work that need to be accomplished. As proof, let me have you take a peek at my “To Do” list: finish testing a whole platform, monitor bugs, manage difficult vendors, attend to everything from stakeholder’s requirements, developer’s code, database developers’ db tables and stored procs, sys ads’ deployment, network ads’ firewall connectivity. Oh and before I forget, the UAT and deployment is already next week. With still a buggy application do you expect me to spend a restful weekend?! Rather than spending my weekend at the mall or at the spa, my presence can still be found in the Data Lab performing regression testing. Reading what I have just written, I realize that my life has been so consumed with work. Ryan, my friend based in Saudi pretty much gave me a slight slap on the face when he sent me this message upon reading my YM status (“busyness is next to godliness”); “baka naman pag-uwi ko niyan mukha ka nang paperwork!” haha Joke but ouch at the same time. Tinamaan ako dun! :P
Now that I’m back to renting again in Makati, I should no longer be hindered from going to after-office activities, like badminton, bowling, going to the gym, movie, coffee, dinner with friends and dates, right? But the ironic thing is, the convenience of the proximity of the office to my home has hindered me from going to these after-office activities and prompted me to go on OT to finish my tasks instead.
A recent conversation with Mia, my best friend also made me realize that I should now start doing something about my situation. I could no longer afford to miss out on my life and happiness just because of work. At the end of the day, my boss would not be there to ask if I’m feeling okay or not, his only concern is to get the project deployed. Enough with trying so hard to make a living, I should instead start making a “life”, a fun and exciting one that is. ;-)
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
If you want to know more about Saturn Return, visit these sites:
http://www.newage-directory.com/saturn.html
http://www.saturnreturn.net/where_is.html
Recent events in the office prompted me to think about whether I’m happy with the life I’m living. Lately, I’ve been spending up to 15 hours of my day inside the four walls of the office. You would ask how come?! Actually, 15 hours is still not enough with the avalanche of work that need to be accomplished. As proof, let me have you take a peek at my “To Do” list: finish testing a whole platform, monitor bugs, manage difficult vendors, attend to everything from stakeholder’s requirements, developer’s code, database developers’ db tables and stored procs, sys ads’ deployment, network ads’ firewall connectivity. Oh and before I forget, the UAT and deployment is already next week. With still a buggy application do you expect me to spend a restful weekend?! Rather than spending my weekend at the mall or at the spa, my presence can still be found in the Data Lab performing regression testing. Reading what I have just written, I realize that my life has been so consumed with work. Ryan, my friend based in Saudi pretty much gave me a slight slap on the face when he sent me this message upon reading my YM status (“busyness is next to godliness”); “baka naman pag-uwi ko niyan mukha ka nang paperwork!” haha Joke but ouch at the same time. Tinamaan ako dun! :P
Now that I’m back to renting again in Makati, I should no longer be hindered from going to after-office activities, like badminton, bowling, going to the gym, movie, coffee, dinner with friends and dates, right? But the ironic thing is, the convenience of the proximity of the office to my home has hindered me from going to these after-office activities and prompted me to go on OT to finish my tasks instead.
A recent conversation with Mia, my best friend also made me realize that I should now start doing something about my situation. I could no longer afford to miss out on my life and happiness just because of work. At the end of the day, my boss would not be there to ask if I’m feeling okay or not, his only concern is to get the project deployed. Enough with trying so hard to make a living, I should instead start making a “life”, a fun and exciting one that is. ;-)
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
If you want to know more about Saturn Return, visit these sites:
http://www.newage-directory.com/saturn.html
http://www.saturnreturn.net/where_is.html
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