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One bright morning, at the age of about 12, when I got up and ran out to stretch myself and admire the beauty of the sky, I saw a very bright round abject of the size of the moon. It was not very bright, so I couldn’t mistake it for the sun. I concluded it was the moon.

A few minutes later, something flashed through my mind and for one moment, I thought it was the morning star. I loved poetry very much and believed every single thing I read in a poem. I have read about the morning stars in many poems.

I kept a close look at the structure that I saw in the sky. At about 10:00 AM, it disappeared into the clouds. I started asking myself why it disappeared before noon. It was still morning and so the morning star had to be up bright in the sky. It must not disappear before noon.

The whole day, I was a bit disturbed. I had seen the morning star, the legendary star I read only in poems but unfortunately it didn’t last in the sky for as long as I wanted. I kept hoping, just as Hamlet hoped that he father’s ghost will appear, that my morning star will appear again at night. I know there are many stars at night but I was very sure that amidst those stars, I would be able to identify my morning star since it was bigger than any star I had ever seen.

That night, my morning star didn’t show up, but to my surprise, I was still very happy because I saw it in the morning.

It is just about a year ago that I learnt a lesson from that story. I had a reason to be very happy that morning. Though that reason was short lived, my hope of meeting it again kept me happy throughout the day. Even when I didn’t see it at night, I was still happy that I saw it in the morning.

At least once in our lives, we find a reason to be happy. We should always be very grateful for such moments because they are too valuable. When we no longer have them, we should hope, and our hope should still keep us happy. If for some reason we lose hope of ever having such moments again, we still have the right to be happy, thanking God that at least we once had them. Not everyone finds a reason to be happy and seizes it.

Always strive to be happy.

When was the last time you observed a morning star?

Loosing concentration on something you like is a very bad experience. You find yourself saying you can’t live without it, and the next day, you say to hell with it. Whether you know it or not, this has very negative impacts on you. It greatly affects your attitude towards other endeavors, even those that are stable and long lasting. What forces us to loose concentration?

I am not a Jack-of-all trade, as I have heard most of my friends tease me, but the fact that I always want to learn a bit of everything still remains concrete. At times, I wish I had a arms, eyes, ears and legs. I feel like pleading that God should extend our normal day to 48hrs and double a week to 14 days. I feel like a month should be 60 days and a year…

They say planning is the key to it all, and with proper planning, one can achieve quite a lot in a limited time space. I have come to see “priorities” to be far more important than planning. My main problem is how to prioritize my goals. As I earlier said, I have too much to learn, much work to do and many places to go (though not really many). Planning the time to spend on each task is very challenging, but I always handle that. However, after the planing, where do I start?

About a year back, I wanted to study web development, sound engineering and creative writing (for movie scripts). When I put one at the top and decide it is the main one and I would start with, looking at the time it would take makes me feel like giving up on the others. Have I stopped looking at any as being important? No. They are all too important for me, but I have just lost the interest to running after them all.

One can’t have them all, but I really wan to have one, and still partake in the others…