It’s been a while since my last post. It’s ironic, isn’t it? I was on holidays for a month and I thought I would post a lot more than well, nothing. Hope everyone is fine and things are going well.

Anyway, I was going through my emails and I saw a sign off from one of my friend’s email. It said, everyday is once in a lifetime, we just fail to realize it. Well, ain’t it profound. I decided to use that quote that in one of the newsletters that was send out cause I was so absorbed by it. So, this was Monday when it happened. I got to sleep in anticipation of the next day. 

Well, Tuesday didn’t feel awesome at all when I woke up. It felt like, well, any other normal regular day. I did what I always do. I put on a fresh pair of clothes, did the yada yada and got out of the house. I got to uni, sat down and had coffee with a couple of friends. (I made uni sound so chil, It really isn’t. It’s week one and I didn’t have classes, I went to talk about committee in CASS and caught up with friends.)

In spirit of catching up, I went to the chaplaincy room afterwards. If you don’t know what the chaplaincy is, my definition of it is that they are a group of people, compromised of priests, sisters and other non-religious that help the students on campus and reaching out to them concerning their faith and well being. It was around 11:30 when I got there so most of them were busy preparing for mass and had to leave but one of them stayed behind. I talked a little bit with him thinking that I was going to leave after 5 minutes. 10 minutes tops.

I ended up having one of the most profound conversations in my life. When I say profound, I don’t mean jumping over couches. Like the quote above, it’s really simple but when you look back at it, it carries so much weight in terms of meaning and joy. This guy is getting married at the age of 23! Wow. He was talking to me about all sort of things. He was telling me about this book that he was reading by Saint John Chrysostom, the amazement of the Christian faith, how he propose to his wife, his excitement with his new job and his potential kids. I knew what a good man he is before this but I never actually had the chance to properly sit down and talk to him. I was mesmerized by his enthusiasm and admiration for everything. 

He quoted Gandhi before I left. He was saying something along the lines of If the whole world was Christian for a day, the whole world would be Christian tomorrow. I looked it up and it wasn’t quite it. It was If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. Whichever it is, it’s still amazing to hear that.

It turned out that Tuesday wasn’t too bad at all. I know that a lot of us are plagued by troubles and worries about a lot of things. Hey, I am too but allow yourselves to be amazed by the little things in life. Life isn’t a bucket of sadness but rather a place to find purpose and meaning in what you do. Everyday is a perfect day to do it. Don’t wait till next year. Don’t wait till new year to make resolutions. Everyday is a chance to do something different. Give yourself that chance. 

Don’t waste today. Have a good day wherever you are. 🙂