As promise, I’m back with the sequel of the “I am NO Superwoman” entry.
So what is there to do with Cinderella this time?
I was mentioning about not wanting to live a regretful life looking back wondering on those “what ifs”. You know it is always tough to think about things lingering on our mind and then in the end we didn’t go for it and thus one day looking back feeling regret in thinking why didn’t we give it a try. I hate it this way. I don’t like to see myself blaming myself on things that I didn’t reach out just because I was not courageous enough.
How would you know you can’t achieve (the things lingering in your mind) if you haven’t tried? Cinderella was the girl who danced with the Prince. But she left him hurriedly before 12 midnight. The Prince was searching around for her. If she didn’t go out to try on the shoe, the Prince would never be able to find her. It is true that if we go and try out things that have been lingering in our minds, we are taking a risk …
On the contrary, sometimes we would also feel remorseful thinking on things that we’ve done and wishing “what if I had never done it?”. Um…isn’t it tough again?
My dad was telling me about a program he was watching. This particular episode was interviewing 2 individuals who share an apparent similarity. They have a dream and they have been trying to make their dream comes true. The girl wanted to become a news broadcaster; she has tried many years and still she wasn’t recruited to the media company. Yet she’s still not given up but she didn’t realize time is passing and she might be living on a bubble all this while. Perhaps she should be realistic enough to start exploring other things rather than sticking to what she’s been thinking after trying many times. As for another guy, he wanted to become some composer but after years of trying, he diverged his interest in setting up a business of his own. He now owns four branches of his restaurant. But he’s not given up his dream of becoming a composer totally.
Is the girl very unrealistic? Should she put all her eggs in one basket? Should she still keep waiting for her opportunity to arise? Don’t you think the guy, on the other hand is somewhat more practical? He didn’t waste his time instead he was putting some eggs elsewhere although he still preferred his original basket.
What meikoy commented earlier about the risk of failing, “It is hard to live a life without regret, it means you have to take chances, and that you might fail.”. But if our instinct is so strong and most importantly we know we won’t be hurting others deliberately and killing ourselves, and then I myself would really prefer to give it a go. Maybe I am Cinderella who owns the shoes? And if it’s not meant to be, no matter how hard I try, I still can’t fit into the shoe. It’s just like no matter how hard Cinderella’s stepsisters tried to squeeze into the small size shoe; they just couldn’t because they were not the girl who danced with the Prince the other night.
However, I am not saying that we should just give everything a try. That’s a little too much if we simply try things out if we don’t even have a heart for, because that just basically means we are not even sure of what we truly want. If we listen to our own compass (refer earlier post, Where is the compass?)hard enough, the remorseful moments of wishing things that have been done to be undone can also possibly be avoided, well at least be minimized.
Eh, you and I may not be Superwoman, but we may be Cinderella. We never know until we try it out. Even if we end up not fitting that shoe, then that may not be a bad idea after all. That just means we can confirm that we are not Cinderella, but some Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan or Aladdin.
All right, today is the first day of the lunar New Year. May everyone will have an auspicious start in the new year of dog. Happy Lunar New Year to those who are celebrating this festive season! Gong Hei Gong Hei 恭贺新春!!
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