about a square peg in a round hole

I’ve been thinking about the concept of a calling.

Such a concept would only exist in an orderly universe and I believe this universe is one such place. In my view, the purpose of life is to progress, evolve, and grow to fulfillment. If one’s activity meshes with that purpose then one’s growth to fulfillment is accelerated.

A calling is not merely a profession or job. That is too superficial a definition. A calling must embody a higher purpose. It must involve service. It is the avenue through which one makes the greatest contribution to everyone else.

As a result, a calling affords an individual the greatest possible growth, success, and happiness.

I believe each of us has a calling and we are all endowed with the necessary talent, creativity, intelligence, and insight to find it and to fulfill it.

Tragically most people don’t even believe they have a calling in life. Instead, most everyone “works for a living,” which really means most everyone “suffers to survive.” People have created an unhappy, unhealthy, and unsuccessful world for themselves. And then they turn around and teach the younger generation this same fruitless pattern of behavior, claiming hard work is a virtue, as if there is some great benefit to suffering.

The solution to finding your calling isn’t complex. It is contained in the answer to this question: What do you give, the giving of which fills you with great happiness?

What could be easier? Give what makes you happy to give. That way both you and everyone else receive the maximum.

Source: Lazy Way to Success

Why don’t more people think like this?

An email to my ex-lecturers at HELP Institute (now HELP University College - Phwoar…):

Ola!

It’s Yee Yang… Came across the HELP convocation 2006 website yesterday and couldn’t help but notice that cosmic karma has seen it fit to bestow me with a complimentary upgrade from a 2.2 to a 2.1 degree classification!

Obviously, I’m chuffed, but the thing is, right, I just cannot bring myself to accept the honorary misclassification, nor can I in good faith misrepresent my scholarly prowess… But cheers anyway for the offer, ya?

How are you guys anyway?

Warmest regards,
Lee Yee Yang
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- Full-time Graduate Diploma in Arts Student, Auckland University
- Part-time Chef
- Part-time Paralegal/Legal Drafting Assistant
- Career Bum
- Grandmaster, Procrastinator Division
- Luckless, Romance Department
- Debtor, Personal Financing

Hehe. But you know. It’s really cool that so many of my classmates have achieved so much more than I did. Good on them, right? (Bitterness slowly creeping in but rapidly vanquished…) Especially Jennifer Lee Tze-Hui! First Class Honours, UWE. Big up to you girl!

Found a great website: Corporate Mother Fucker, that finally confirmed what we have all long suspected - that Bush is in fact, an Afghanistani.

Been reading nerve.com (which is a great website, if you ask me - in fact, I’m a Premium member), and chanced upon an ongoing series of articles named “History of Single Life” by Ken Mondschein with its latest feature: “Pubic Hair“.

Its a fun read. Don’t believe me? Go check it out then. At least you’d find out what ‘acomoclitism’ means…

I got elected as the Production Manager for the Auckland University Drama Society, Stage Two! It’s an executive position which means I have voting rights! Hoorah!

Initial thoughts on the people that make up Stage Two - Quirky, Eclectic and Unique. Man, arty people can be soooo weird - and usually a sack of fun!

Strangely, Stage Two isn’t as vibrant or eventful as Act One, but who knows… maybe this will be the year…

I just realised that I should probably create some sort of a hook to sign off my blog entries.

Or maybe not.