Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. In a couple of hours, I do what I really like best with my single life. Fly off to Hong Kong for a personal holiday because I have the long weekend and love to be overseas to enjoy life. In Hong Kong, I'm not doing much but at least I get to wander around in a different environment, eat and drink different stuff and mostly to fellowship with a couple of friends.
The airport is one of my favourite places, especially the inside of it because it makes my heart alive with excitement because it brings about the realisation that I'm going overseas and able to escape to somewhere else and avoid the boring routine of home. I guess I've always had a strong inner desire to travel. The dictionary defines this emotion as "wanderlust".
So, once again I'm flying away. My fourth flight of the year and I'm excited to sit in the plane to watch my TV and anticipate waking up in another land. However, truth be said, every time I burn a long weekend overseas, a part of my heart is left behind.
It is a weird feeling of excited expectancy and yet tinged with a feeling of regret and missing out something important. Time and again, as the plane starts its take-off, I'll mutter a silent prayer of journey protection and in my mind a flash of the teens and kids that I'm not going to be meeting over the weekend. Somehow, they have been such a part of my life that part of my heart wishes I could be there with them or they with me in the holiday. Moreover this weekend, there's a farewell party for one of my RA's before he goes off to France.
I grateful for the opportunities to satisfy the wanderlust in me, but I must say that it also reveals the treasures of my life.So bye-bye for this weekend, teens like YongEn, Jerome, Bennett and Ivan whom I enjoy spending a fair bit of time with and my ever noisy, adorable RKs and of course, my Sunday dinner RA companions.
To quote one of favourite quotes "where my heart goes, it goes with you."
M.
