Soundtrack of Your Life

Movies have soundtracks, the background music or score that accompanies the visual action. Sometimes it is referred to as the theme music.

When it is done well, we tend to remember the soundtrack from a movie for a long, long time.

For instance, from the classic "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), I'd say many of us would remember the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow".

I also bet you can whistle the theme music from the war movie "The Bridge over River Kwai" (1957) or the western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).

And what about that tearjerker "Love Story" (1970) ? Then there's the theme music of "The Godfather" (1972), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Forrest Gump" (1994) which are so memorable.

Your children would probably know the theme music from the Harry Potter movies.

Someone once asked me: what is the soundtrack of your life? Like the soundtrack of a movie, the music might go high or low, faster or slower, louder or softer based on the significant events of your life. Think about it for a moment. What is the soundtrack of your life?

Life Lessons Learnt

I thought I'd start a more reflective post today. As we all hit 50 this year*, it can be considered a "half-way" mark in our life journey. It's probably a good to time to pause, stand back and review our life so far. I would guess that your life, as with most everyone else's, would be like the road shown above - with its bright and dark spots, its smooth and rough patches, its ups and downs, its main route and side paths .... But all throughout the journey, we live and learn.

What are some of the memorable life lessons that you have learnt in our life, that you might want to share with other form mates and friends? Another way of putting it is: what do you know now that you wish you knew 30 years ago when you were just starting out? Yet another way to put it: what would you want your child or grandchild to know so that he/she doesn't have to learn it the hard way that you did? Or perhaps you might have formed some views on life that you just want to check with the others to see if anybody else sees it the same way?

These reflections can be in any sphere of life ... work, career, business, professional, family, social, personal etc etc. No boundaries at all. It's totally up to you.

Go on. Share freely your pearls of wisdom.

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* For other honorary members of this group not from the Form5 (1976) classes, who haven't quite hit the Big 5 yet (and you know who you are & 50 is probably akan datang pretty soon anyway), please feel free to also share your lessons learnt.