Monday, December 04, 2006
Had dinner with Emmy after class. It'd been quite a while we hadn't caught up. Was good to talk to an old friend. Old friends do change but the funny stories we had in the past don't change - they're always so funny that crack you up in tears.
Emmy looked so tired and she told me I looked just as tired *haha* She wasn't the first to say that. People keep telling me I looked tired. Well, I guess I must look tired. Actually, I'm pretty tired and RedBull or caffeine doesn't help. Never get enough sleep, or when I do I don't sleep well. People say business world has it's own price, mm... It's quite true.
She told me how some of our old classmates are doing. Some of them are far more full on than us. They work, take part-time jobs and courses. We wondered how much time they have a day. Do they really sleep? I know they are working so hard for money, brands, houses, and blah blah blah, you name it. To be honest, it's not that I don't like luxurious lifestyle but I know that isn't what my life on earth should be after. Because my life in eternity will be luxurious anyway.
When I know what kind of luxury I'll have in the eternity, I don't care about the "so-called" luxury on earth. This life I have on earth only lasts eight years or a bit more (if I'm strong). It's such a short time compared with the eternity. Indeed, time is precious. It's not wise to waste the precious time to persue something that are fading away. The values of knowledge, certificates, property, money, and many other things change as times change. Nothing can last forever; and no one can keep something forever. I like what Jim Eliot said "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." I should spend my life to gain something I can never loose; that is God Himself.
