Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Some of you who have been following my blog for some time would know that our family has recently moved overseas.

Actually, we all moved to a nearby country, a city where I spent my first fourteen years there.

The city of Jakarta =)

[I shared my thoughts on this big move right here]

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Before I start writing posts on how things are here in Jakarta for us, I thought I should write about how it was when the ‘day of departure’ finally arrived.

Well. One thing was for sure : we were SO busy everyday over the last two weeks, packing and clearing our stuff (while caring for Brie who’s sick for a few days), that I didn’t quite have the time to stop and feel … too emotional.

(I knew I’d really miss my home and all, but I somehow tried to not think about it much too)

[Booked a 7-seater taxi to take us and ALL our luggages to the airport]

We rushed through everything that day. We still had documents to collect, small things to put into our bags, etc.

But, when it was time for me to step out of our home and rush down to our taxi, … this happened : I suddenly was overwhelmed by emotions.

I remember standing in the middle of our living room, looking around our empty home, and I just broke down and cried.

The surge of emotion was just overwhelming.

I guess it was because I knew I was spending my final few seconds inside the very place I’ve called home all these years.

The place where I watched my children played and grew.

The place where our family created and shared so many memories, sweet and bitter. Everything.

And the part that got to me the most was the fact that once I closed and locked that door, I knew I could no longer enter it like we usually did.

Ugh, it’s hard to explain what the feeling was like.

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Some people thought that I was feeling sad about leaving Singapore because deep down I didn’t want to go to Jakarta.

Actually, no.

They are two different feelings.

I felt really sad about leaving Singapore and everything that we’ve built over the years.

But, at the same time I’m excited about the many new things we’ll be doing in Jakarta together as a family.

Errr, hope I’m making sense?

(Perhaps you’ve been in a similar situation?)

Anyway.

There’s one statement I heard over the weekend that encouraged me a lot. It said:

Let the past be the past, and let us move ahead for there are wonderful tasks, challenges and responsibilities that are waiting to be carried out and accomplished.

I like that.

And I’d like to do that.

So yes, while we treasure the past, we’d choose to move ahead. Together. As a family, and with God as our Guide.

Jakarta, here we come.