Return of Investment-- these are the reverberating words coming from my patient. I am a small time investor and for how many months now that my sister and I ventured in stock market, we haven't yet seen our ROI. As what our mentor said, we are not traders. We are investors..and we deal with long term goals.As I am waiting for my patient for the CT Scan to commence, the ROI kept on ringing on my ears as if I had a salicylate overdose.
What is my ROI in my personal life?
While some people are so overwhelmed with the rapid takeover of technology, I can say that I am still a woman of the cave,=) I confess that to this date I'm still using my old Nokia phone with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger background (at least it's colored, lol) though with all humility I can say that I can already afford to buy what I want coming from my own pocket. I had given an Apple brand item as a gift but I don't own one. Because I'm happy with the conventional way of sending and receiving messages..because I'm happy to see Pooh licking a can of honey everyday. I'm happy to read my sister's text messages of how surprised she was with the gift. I could never had felt it if I had chosen to bought it for myself alone. Investing with people and relationships over fleeting material possessions surely brings priceless happiness--beyond leaps and bounds.
Another confession before this year ends is that I do not own my personal laptop not until the last quarter of this year. How I made the number of posts from my Third Place? Of course, God provides!=) Blame it on my favorite peanut butter that I got this unconventional way of thinking! I bought instead a Nikon DSLR. Because I want to invests in people: capturing treasured moments, painting smiles from behind the lens, engraving a mosaic-formed memories. Surely when I am on my deathbed, I will not remember any more the specifications of Samsung SII or the iPod Touch..what will ring on my ears are the crispy laughter in business lingo called ROI, while I call happiness..
Anyone of you who intentionally or accidentally hopped on my once upon a time "hideout" might also pose the same question; what is my personal ROI? I will understand if it's hard to assess and answer this question. Once in our lives, we may be like the character of Mary and Joseph..a "night traveler"..In addition, some of us may be carrying a heavy backpack of "loads". We may feel that the sky is so dark, and that no one even lift a finger to spare some light. Hold your ground, for no matter how dark the night is, rest assured that there are stars behind.We cannot see that light sometimes because of the overwhelming darkness in the form of problems, hurts, rejection, sickness, betrayal, defeat, lose. Keep pulling through, keep walking through. Life is full of tricks. It's only in darkness that light is better appreciated, no matter how flimsiest rays may seem. I assure you that the darkest night has the brightest day-having been once a night traveler.
It is my fervent prayer this Christmas that you may find your ROI in the simplest things. Invest in your relationships: with your kids, your family, your special someone, with your workmates, with your friends, with the ordinary people, with your God. While Physics says that opposite signs attract while like signs repel and that Geometry claims that parallel lines will never meet, I only believe in what God says, "you are my beloved, you are my greatest ROI"..=)
Merry Christmas!
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