5 years... What first comes to your mind? Is it long? Or is it short? I bet, depending on what age you are now, 5 years can sound quite short. Especially when you think of where you were 5 years before and where you are today. You don't really see the difference. So you decided that, Nopes, 5 years is short, O-My-Gee!! And you start to get panic when you see that you have not even reached your goal and you'll be at certain age in 5 years. Must be pretty alarming.
Guess what, I could be one of them who thought so, but that's just for a while. Until I recall back what could happen in 5 years to change what I think about being "not so long". Lets see. I remember this old makcik came to my place and started talking. She said that her daughter was once my customer. I was surprised. I couldn't remember which one, but she said, "that time she was still in Form 3," which was 15 years old. Then she added, "Now she's in the university". I was like, Seriously?? Form 3 was still a kiddo age, and now she's a grown up lady and gonna enter the job market soon. Garsh, 5 years can't be that short, right? Then I remember my other customers who were once schoolkids, some came back to my workplace when they were on industrial training to be a teacher. Gosh. From early teenagehood now they are going to be adults. 5 years can do that. Not that long, you say?
Now look at a senior friend of mine whom I know around 5 years before. We could still sit at the same table having lunch together, but she isn't what she was 5 years before when I first met her. 5 years ago, her hubby was this one nice Bruneian guy, and they were among the happiest couples around. Sadly, on the 3rd year knowing her, the husband divorced her and she went through the most difficult time of her life when she had to move out from the husband's house and she got no place to stay. She had to sleep at her office for 6 months, and only a year ago she got remarried to a Muslim Chinese guy, she has a place to stay and she's no more heartbroken. But she's still the same lady, having lunch beside me. If you miss those five years and only meet today, you wouldn't know how much she went through. And how much pain she had survived.
Also another friend of mine since secondary school. She used to keep looking for the right guy and kept failing. And how she changed from one boyf to another for that quest. She had many relationships with married men after she went to meet the fortune teller in Thailand about her destiny with married man. Guess what, 5 years ago she was stuck in a toxic relationship that she had to abort the baby she had from the guy who was married and did not want the baby. And today, she's a happy mother of 2 kids after she finally married with guy who just lost his wife to cancer. In the end, she found the solution to her situation without having to hurt another woman's heart. In 5 years, she got both mistakes and solutions.
So if you ask me, is 5 years long or short? I definitely will say, How can it be short when life's uncertainties can happen in a year or two, and now you are talking about five. Of course many things can be failed, can be accomplished and achieved during that long duration! So if you think you have not "moved" for the past 5 years, it's time to make a move. You can have your long list of plans solved and achieved one by one! Never Underestimate what 5 years can do cos ANYTHING can just hop into your hand and be yours, even on the few months before that 5 years. Who knows? You can forget about doing the maths and busy getting happy and grateful for every breath that we take, do your best and appreciate every moment being alive. So to the coming 5 years, lets meet again in 5 years and see how much difference that we have collected! After all said and done, this gift of life must be lived the best we know how. Good luck, guys!
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