Life's a Kite
Today is a nice outdoor day with my JC friends, getting the sun and the breeze is really good, meeting and catching up with friends is excellent! So we went to Marina South for a gathering + kiting + makan session. The catching up is good and the makan is terrific however the highlight of the day is on the kiting experience as I begin my philosophical fermentation when I learn to kite for the first time in my life.
For those of you who haven’t tried kiting before, it is really a skill to be able to get the kite flying high into the sky as the way to trap the wind, the time to pull and the time to let go are all crucial to get the kite into the sky. For the first few attempts, we tried to fly the kite individually and it does not really yield good results. Later we figure out that if one of us is to let go of the kite a distance from the person managing the string, the kite has a higher probability of having a good start. After getting the kite to a decent height, it boils down to how you pull and let go of the string to get it higher into the sky. During the process we got cut by the string and wounded our fingers. And with poor management of the string, the kite will make its crashing descend to the ground. Finally, we manage to get the kite soaring to the sky after numerous crash and cuts (YEAH!)
Partnership + Pull + Let go + Wounded + Crash = Soar
This kiting pattern appears to me like a manifestation of life success pattern.
In life, we can have a good head start if we have good partners to assist us in life, be it partner in love, partner in business, partner in all aspects of life. With bad partners who don’t share the common goals and with selfish motives, life is a dread as you will always be tied down due to opposing interest, making one unable to soar to the sky. Support and team work is thus important for one to be successful in life.
Life is also a game of pulling and letting go. When we are pursuing success, we need to know when to pull back on our advances when we are treading too fast as we might not noticed the trap ahead. Pulling back to catch more wind and letting go will make the kite go higher and in life, it will make one soar higher in the ladder of success. Pulling back can also mean resting and letting go can mean letting your team loose to explore their potential, letting your company soaring to the sky as the limit!
As we go through the trials of life, we will be wounded physically, mentally and spiritually in our pursue for success. However one should never be defeated by the transient pain, learn how to avoid being wounded and finally strengthening the area where we have been wounded. A wounded spot will be stronger when it is healed but it will remain weak if your mind does not dare to venture again due to the fear of being wounded. Wounds are unavoidable, fear can be permanent, but a courageous and persistent spirit will make success possible as it conquers all fears.
(Some kites soar while others plunge, only the persistence will soar once again to success)
Soaring.................................... into the SKY!!!
For those of you who haven’t tried kiting before, it is really a skill to be able to get the kite flying high into the sky as the way to trap the wind, the time to pull and the time to let go are all crucial to get the kite into the sky. For the first few attempts, we tried to fly the kite individually and it does not really yield good results. Later we figure out that if one of us is to let go of the kite a distance from the person managing the string, the kite has a higher probability of having a good start. After getting the kite to a decent height, it boils down to how you pull and let go of the string to get it higher into the sky. During the process we got cut by the string and wounded our fingers. And with poor management of the string, the kite will make its crashing descend to the ground. Finally, we manage to get the kite soaring to the sky after numerous crash and cuts (YEAH!)
Partnership + Pull + Let go + Wounded + Crash = Soar
This kiting pattern appears to me like a manifestation of life success pattern.
In life, we can have a good head start if we have good partners to assist us in life, be it partner in love, partner in business, partner in all aspects of life. With bad partners who don’t share the common goals and with selfish motives, life is a dread as you will always be tied down due to opposing interest, making one unable to soar to the sky. Support and team work is thus important for one to be successful in life.
Life is also a game of pulling and letting go. When we are pursuing success, we need to know when to pull back on our advances when we are treading too fast as we might not noticed the trap ahead. Pulling back to catch more wind and letting go will make the kite go higher and in life, it will make one soar higher in the ladder of success. Pulling back can also mean resting and letting go can mean letting your team loose to explore their potential, letting your company soaring to the sky as the limit!
As we go through the trials of life, we will be wounded physically, mentally and spiritually in our pursue for success. However one should never be defeated by the transient pain, learn how to avoid being wounded and finally strengthening the area where we have been wounded. A wounded spot will be stronger when it is healed but it will remain weak if your mind does not dare to venture again due to the fear of being wounded. Wounds are unavoidable, fear can be permanent, but a courageous and persistent spirit will make success possible as it conquers all fears.
(Some kites soar while others plunge, only the persistence will soar once again to success)Life is not a bed of roses and we definitely will face obstacles and failures. As the kite plunge to the ground, what we have simply done is just to pick it up and rocket it to the sky again. Temporal failure does not hinder success, it only give us experience not to commit the same mistake, learn from the mistake and finally climb higher in the ladder of success by trying again and again until we reach success.
Soaring.................................... into the SKY!!!
If we could master the skill of flying a kite and implement the philosophy into steering our life, we could soar to the sky, see new horizons, challenge new heights and reaching new unprecedented grounds!
"Be brave to challenge the sky and soar to new heights!"
James Tan
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