It is I who must begin ...

Today marks the end of a journey that I started six months ago. On this journey I have learnt much from the many people that I met and interacted, from the classes that I attended, from the visits we made locally and overseas as well as discovered more about myself - some things that I am happy with, and other things that I am looking forward to improving about myself.

Tomorrow I will find out what the future holds for me. Where I will be going depends on where my services are needed and I trust and have faith in the system that I will be placed where I can best contribute. It will be an interesting chapter indeed!

A colleague shared a poem with all of us that was on the course and I thought it's really a meaningful poem that I would like to share with everyone. It's a poem by Vaclav Havel. Here you go, enjoy ...

It is I Who Must Begin

It is I who must begin.
Once I begin, once I try –
here and now,
right where I am,
not excusing myself
by saying things
would be easier elsewhere,
without grand speeches and
ostentatious gestures,
but all the more persistently-
to live in harmony
with the “voice of Being” as I
understand it within myself-
as soon as I begin that,
I suddenly discover
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out upon that road.

Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.