When I first started my working life, I felt like I could barely cope. I had the best mentor one could have - P, but I guess I was simply not good enough to catch on as fast as I had wished. I cannot deny that there were many points at which I almost gave up but somehow I did not.
I wrote phrases and stuck it around to keep me grounded.
One was from a calligraphy work found in the Chinese Library at Central Library where I always studied for my exams, It is the simple phrase of '自强不息' & '力争上游'.
There other one was to put things in perspective. It was a part of the poem 'Auguries of Inocence' by William Blake.
'To see the world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
These days, as much I wish P is around when I run into a block, I now have to be independent and find the answers myself. And perhaps it is time to be a mentor to someone too.
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