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I have done a lot of things in my life and have also worked in many different jobs to make a living and to experience life. This blog is just some of my musings, sometimes funny, sometimes inspirational, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes simple but all the time, it's just me.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Pebbles in my shoe


This morning as I was rushing out to work, I had put on my shoes quickly and was sitting in the car and was about to reverse when I felt it. That irritating feeling of a little pebble in the shoe that only irritates you at a certain angle. I thought I could live with it until I got to work but as pebbles in shoes go, they are bloody irritating and you are so itchified that you have to get it out immediately.

So, the usual act, remove shoes, shake and knock the shoes upside down to remove the pebble and put the shoes back on. The pebble was still there.

It was not playing mind tricks, so again, I removed my shoes, and again knocked and swept the shoe with my finger.

Put on the shoe again and there, the pebble still was there. I then realised it was a pebble in my sock. So, I had to remove the sock and take that pesky pebble out before I was well on my journey.

You know, that's life. We get pebbles in our life all the time.

But sometimes, unlike what we do with pebbles in our shoes, we just continue and keep living with the pebbles in our lives, we hope they will dissolve without us doing anything.

What inevitably happens in life is that the pebbles become stones that become rocks that becomes boulders that becomes mountains that perhaps only Prophet Mohammad can move.

If we were just to take care of those pesky pebbles when they are still pebbles, we would not be faced with mountains to overcome all the time.

But we don't. Why is that so?

I have so many mountains that have been built up over the years plus all the boulders and rocks and stones, that the pebbles do not matter anymore, you become immune to them.

But you know what, while I wait for a plan on how to scale the mountains that have already been built in 42 years of my life, I pledge to deal with the pebbles right now. Quick wins as they say.

So, I start to deal with pesky pebbles in my life while I figure out the mountains.

I do not like something, I say it then and there and pffft, the pebble disappears, that won't be a mountain no more.

One day at a time. Deal with pebbles while scratching the head on how to scale the mountains. And scale the mountains one step at a time.

Perhaps I could get advice from the Malaysian government, looking at the construction, they are able to quickly dissolve all the hillside and slopes into apartments and bungalows. But then again, on issues that matter, they tend to make mountains out of molehills,.

So, we rely on one true God, one supreme power in the Universe, seek his help to guide me in conquering the mountains and with His blessings, destroy the pebbles that crop up in the shoes while scaling these mountains that once were pebbles too.

Take care and be well.

8 comments:

Macedonia said...

^_^. actually you make me cry... may the pebble disappears...

May God give us His blessing.

anju said...

beautiful the mess we are................the honest cries of breaking hearts.better than a hallaluiah sometimes................

Glenda said...

Pebbles can also cause blisters - a painful reminder that you once had a pebble in your shoe....or your life.

Glenda said...

Pebbles can cause blisters - a painful reminder that you've had a pebble in your shoe....or your life.

Anonymous said...

Many eons ago, god made the DIVINE PLAN.... which include the pebble in your shoe...

Now if you ask god to remove the pebble,... that is a change in specifications,... and would disrupt the DIVINE PLAN,..

There would be howls of protest from people of other planets and universes..

As a good project Manager,.. god cannot entertain such requests..

Imagine if every Ahmad, Ah Meng,Muniandy and aliens from all other planets ask the same thing..

- might as well dont have the DIVINE PLAN...

Since god already give good job, education, good brain,.. cant the pebble be removed by oneself instead of refering to god..? ..

Hey ...god does not run the universe like Rosmah and Jibby run the malaysian gomen.. always flip flopping...

Enough said... remove the pebble yourself...or consider using sandles like old man Jesus, Moses, Abraham and cousin Mohamed

bal said...

And then he cried, ''cut it off!! Cut it off at the foot and the pebble and all future pebbles will be trouble no more!''

''Why stop at the foot'', she sniggered... ''keep going north until the knee, i says, better still the hip.''

Fear. Anxiety. Worry makes you crazy like this.

B

Anonymous said...

So the fellow followed
his and her advice

And... commited suicide...

Instant relief.....

NO MORE PEBBLES to worry about...

And the Divine Plan was fulfilled...
End of story.... hee hee hee

Nil said...

So many interesting comments. There are some things I guess that do not have a manual, for example, have you seen a manual on "how to ride a bicycle"? But a simple thing, like a pebble, it is our human nature, we let it bother us. Just as I immediately and easily removed the real pebble in my shoe, it is as easy to remove the pebbles in my life is the action is immediate. As for the mountains that I have built, I built, and I will chip away at these too