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Hi Daphne's dear readers, many many apologies for the delay in submitting this post, I was waylaid by a bout of feeling unwell and couldn't get to completing the final edit on time. Thanks for your understanding and I hope you enjoy this piece. Cheers! -Meiyi
Meiyi Chan
There's always a flood of interweb articles on retrospectives and resolutions around the new year, so to jump on that bandwagon and give myself an early start on living thoughtfully, here's my list of 12 questions for 2012:
- Do we remember God in our midst, or are spiritual matters only for religious men?
- Do we remember to study history, or are her lessons only for historians?
- Do we remember the joy of working with our hands, or is art only for those who do it for a living?
- Do we remember how to savour a meal, or is gratitude only for those with time to spare?
- Do we remember to let our children learn about the world with all five senses, or is education limited to the mind?
- Do we remember the poor, the infirm, the elderly and the destitute, or are they only the responsibility of institutions and governments?
- Do we remember the sojourners and aliens among us, or have we, as a community, forgotten about hospitality to strangers?
- Do we remember the lonely, or are we too caught up in our own loneliness to touch another person's life?
- Do we remember to speak kindly, or is that only for the weak?
- Do we remember to be generous, or is that only for those with money?
- Do we remember beauty, justice, righteousness, compassion, prudence, respect and love for our fellow man, or are they too "traditional" for us anymore?
- And if indeed they are not for us, then who are these values for?
What questions are you asking yourself today?
About the writer
By the grace of God, Meiyi is a gospel-saved sinner, recent graduate and currently, public servant. These days she spends most of her time in an office, but can't shake her love for wide open grasslands and lots of sky. Her hope for 2012? That we will all connect our individual work to larger questions of life more often than we do now :)
(Daphne speaking - you can check out Meiyi's blog at http://february29.tumblr.com/. Her disclaimer: "it's mostly reblogs and lost of Disney" hahaha. But if you're looking for her own writings, there are some like "work" and on loneliness.)
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"life and society" will feature various people from different walks of life and various parts of the world. New posts are up every Monday and Thursday at 6pm (GMT +8 / Singapore time) through the first week of 2012. On Monday (Jan 9), I'll be featuring the endearing Ruth Ibarra from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, a History major from Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí who recently graduated.
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