Gerald Speaks

IT'S EXCITING to create a new blog, especially with a new header, it makes you want to say something. Though I haven't planted much thoughts in my previous blogs, I feel right to start a new, one more time. As the quote in the header said The Secret of Life is in reinventing yourself. Yes indeed, why do I say that? The fact is all of us have faced a lot of failed starts before. And sometimes it seems we have failed because we did not carry on. We did not see it to its completion, and sometimes we kind of wrapped our lives around the thought and idea that maybe I am not good enough, or I am not ready to go. My life is not real, therefore I can't give my best shot. And because it is a tedious job trying to backtrack to where you have gone wrong... so my whole life up to this point has been a mirage and a standstill. So it is not about what potential I have to be exploited, but rather am I ready or not? But readiness is also an illusion. How can you base something new on the past. The purpose of the new is that it is a launch pad. Day 57 since the beginning, is still a brand new start for the 57th time. So the brand new start is about now, not before. Like Rocky said It is about moving forward. So although I have created 36 other blogs prior to this which I haven't completed or followed through, there is nothing wrong to start again from now on. One More Time is the name of the game here. One more time I will make it work. One more time I will tell my story like I should. One more time I will persist on this journey called life, and hopefully it will lead me somewhere that I belong. By the way the inspiration for the banner came from a photo I took in a shopping mall in KL, coupled with a self-portrait of myself near the Indonesian embassy. While walking down the basement into the carpark, I saw this painted letter-G on the wall, indicating ground floor. But it is also an iconic symbol which represents my name. So I took a snapshot and marry it with some good pictures of myself. With the use of photoshop, here is the outcome. Aha. Not bad huh? The thing about writing blogs is that I can be very self-indulgent at times. I can go on and on talking about my feelings and point of view. Aren't we all like that sometimes. But it is part of the process of purging our lives. Life is about what you have started and what you completed. It works hand in hand. I would say for most people their problem is due to incompletion which sucks them dry or their ability to complete. So if you have an army of completion and incompletion fighting in the battlefield, who do you think will win? And if the bad guys are ahead, how do you think the good guys catch up and turn the battle around? LIFE IS ABOUT COMPLETION, which means you are answerable to yourself ultimately. Every year, every month, every day, every minute, every second allows you to reinvent your life anew - to reload your gun so to speak, pull the trigger to shoot one more round. This is the definitive answer.