Wrapped up in Trust

I believe most of the newbie in the workplace would have experienced what I experience now. This is a second week after a week of training in a new company, I thought that I would be assigned with simple task to familiarize myself with the system. But, I have not given any task to do yet. However, my colleague told me that this was the stage that every newbie would have to get through. Sooner or later, there will be tons of work. So, right at the moment, my tasks are surfing Facebook, listen songs in Youtube, browse around in news sites or blogs.

Blogs, I have known not much of them, but this name – Bunnysprint/Alexandra Wong came across my mind. So I started to search for her blog and pick some of the articles she has written. An interesting title always manage to catch the attention of the reader who prone that type of article. I attracted with the title “Wrapped up in Love”. I checked the date published, it was 22 February 2014, she wrote it not long ago. The words were as hot as the cake take out from oven, still fresh.

Well, the article is about Alex helped her mum out in wrapping the lobak for reunion dinner. Her mum imploring over and over again of wrapped the lobak tight. However, she wasn’t really paying attention to what been told. The lobak that wrapped by Alex ended up to be a failure. Her mum was close to tears, Alex felt so sorry to her mum and feel like crying too. At the end of the day, Alex manage to rescue the lobak. If you wanna know how, click to this link http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Viewpoints/Navel-Gazer/Profile/Articles/2014/02/22/Wrapped-up-in-love/

I was a little touched by the article, what more is that I was hit by the sentence which written “Instead of trusting that there was logic to her method, I thought I knew better, continued doing things my way and this was the disastrous result.” This sentence has reminded me well of how I untrusted my mum, how arrogant I am in assuring the things I know were better than her, how doubtful I am to what she say and how often I object her.

The article makes me feel so stupid for my presumptuous and opinionated. Maybe there are things that she knows better than me, the right way to do things fast, how to make this and that. I just have too much pride in me, well I think it’s time to empty my cup especially my mum’s cup, to listen and believe in her.