Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

What are you passionate about? Have you gone out to pursue your passion, or has the idea to ‘explore it further’ been shelved all this while?

One of the things that never fail to amaze me is my husband’s passion towards tennis.

He’d wake up at 6am on a Saturday morning for his twice-a-week tennis session with his friends, even if he had to clear his work and sleep very little just hours prior to it.

He doesn’t mind traveling far, by public transport, even when he can only play for less than an hour.

He’d bring along his tennis racket and bulky tennis shoes to his 3-day Jakarta business trip, just so that he can play (with his Dad too) before he starts work.

But, despite his passion towards the sport, he’d be willing to put it aside for something that’s more important.

Like, if it coincides with an important seminar he had to attend at church.

I’m sure our kids observe all this too. Without us telling them anything.

How they too need to have a passion for something. How they need to consistently pursue it, develop it, and improve it all the time.

How keeping fit is important.

How keeping a balance in life – between work AND play – is equally important.

How they need to prioritise, and how at times they need to put their passion aside for a moment, and use their time for something else that is MORE important.

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Hope we all get to explore and pursue our very own passion too.

And learn every day to keep a good balance in life.

I for one am learning too. Every day.

[Loving their moments on the court]