Centrepoint

The last week of June is here and this realization made me panic a little because it is alarming that half a year is over, just like that. There are little events documenting the turn of the year that I remember vividly: the Christmas candlelight service, filling up the Goals Card on a cab ride somewhere. I’ve come to dislike expressions such as, “It feels like yesterday”, “Time sure flies” because it makes me feel that I’ve been caught off guard once more, no matter how many weeks, months, half years I’ve been through, there is a perpetual re-surprise year after year about how time speeds by us.

As with the start and end of the year, the midpoint like Wayne suggested, marks a time of reflection. My handwriting on my Goals Card is neat and small, as though the neater it is, the higher the chances of reaching those New Year resolutions. There are some I’ve attained, most I’ve not, others I’ve become oblivious to. All of which I felt were realistic, doable and attainable when I filled the card.

With June slipping away, there leaves one and a half more months before a brand new academic year begins. I’m liking the way this vacation is rolling by, the travelling, the camp, BS, fruitful explorations, like today catching an assortment of films from morning to night and getting excited talking about them thereafter.

The funniest resolution I’ve made comes under “Leisure” which says “More time for Sports, Vacation, Hobbies, Sleep & Rest” where I’ve simply written: SLEEP EARLIER. A goal that I’ve neglected because I’ve completely forgotten that it was even made! And I sit here, the clock hands spell 5:30am, reading my notebook of sermon notes from last November all the way till now (something the hecticness of the semester would forbid), thinking that soon enough we’d be embracing a countdown to 2009 and I’d feel that “time flies” all over again.