Surprises
Weird…Im usually looking forward to posting somethin here. But here I am…void of thoughts. Even random ones. Pathetic, huh? ^__^
Nwei I juz would like to share that I survived my week-long audit. There were no flying colors of any sort…it just went…fine. I really am thankful it was over. It wasn’t nice sleeping late for 6 straight days due to meetings, field visits, and preparing reports and then waking up VERY early the next day not knowing what to expect and how to act because you’re representing your company. The fact that the auditor is a foreigner gives an extra challenge….nauubusan din ako ng english! Hahahaha! But what really hit me is this…that was my very FIRST time taking a task seriously. Yes…a first. Eventhough I was employed to quite a number of companies in the past, I never took those responsibilities seriously. As in dead serious. I was just doing what is basically expected back then. But this! This was dead serious. And I did it alone.
You might think that what I’ve done was easy and I won’t argue. Some of you may have been audited numerous times before, I did too. But the difference then from now is that I was afraid…afraid to fail. I never thought I’d feel that way about work. Work for me is the last thing I’d take seriously in my life. Work is just a tool…a means to live life. But it can never be my life. That’s why I was so surprised with myself for taking that work seriously. When I realize it now, I can’t help but smile. It makes me remember a line said by one of the pioneers of the automobile industry…
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do." - Henry Ford
