paradigm shift*
Thursday, January 29th, 2009*hmm, does anyone still use the phrase “paradigm shift”?
i’m a year older this month, and so is this blog. thanks again to my brother freezing over in montreal who, a year ago, set up this site for me as a birthday gift.
i was hanging out with a journalist friend last friday at a coffee shop - an oasis of calm in the middle of ortigas, the coffee bean and tea leaf shop near the jollibee plaza - when i thought about writing in my post-corporate-world life (a.k.a. retirement). something to ponder on for the next few years, till i trade in my dilbert spectacles for… i don’t know what. yet.
i am too young to think about retiring! but stranger things have happened. like leaving mainstream law practice years ago after toiling for five years in law school and all those sleepless nights at my former law firm. i actually relished being a struggling associate ferreting out once-obscure legal issues and devising grand schemes, errr, solutions. so yes, leaving was strange.
i am constantly inspired by people around me who are masters of reinvention: economist-researcher-turned-chorale-conductor-cum-pianist. investment-banker-turned-furniture-and-interior-designer. corporate suits plotting to become chefs, web designers, restaurateurs. photographers who happen to be qualified lawyers… reinventing life, let alone re-imagining it, is not for everyone. certainly not for the fainthearted or the complacent.
a year older.
i’m thankful that i’ve never had an accident on the road while driving. thankful that my parents, brother and in-laws are just a phone call away. happy that hubby is so tolerant of my musings even when i meander. grateful for being able to walk my dogs when i need cheering up. grateful for my pleasantly imperfect life, but wanting to move on. next adventure, please!
