Design Your Life, Make The Change.

Would your decision on the time to go to bed be a major impact to your life? Imagine this scenario; you decided to go to bed late on one night to catch up on your favourite TV series. You go to bed at three in the morning with a smile on your tired face remembering the funniest line in the series. Everything looks to be in order doesn’t it?

What about when you wake up in the morning? You sleep through all your alarm and woke up slightly later than normal. You casually take your time to get ready and left the house 30 minutes late but with ample time to reach the University. But wait! Because you left the house at that time, there are already more cars on the road than your usual early hours. To add on, an accident just happened on the very same road which you could have missed if you left the house earlier.

Then a whole series of unfortunate events happened; you arrive late to class to find that a pop quiz started, your mood then turns sour because you couldn’t answer any questions. Unfocused, you then missed the tips that was given by your lecturer for the final exams (those were really good tips), you flunked the final exam, you get into an argument with your parents who then refuses to pay for your tuition fees causing you to drop out because you do not have a steady income and the whole world comes crashing down just because you watched your favourite TV series and slept late that one night.

BUT! Let’s cut the dramatics. Life may be made of dominoes, but who is to say that you can’t break the chain and change the route. Your life is your very own set of dominoes that you can place step by step. True that some parts may just continuously fall and create a chain reaction but it is up to you to just follow through with what you have set in the first place, or decide that you want a better path in the middle of that.

Every little event without a doubt leads to another bigger event. Do not underestimate any small decision you make in your daily life because it could affect how your whole life may turn out. Depending on what you do, it could also create an effect on the people around you. Instead of frowning or giving a ‘poker face’ to classmates or staff whom you do not know, a simple change to smile at them may then create a great difference.

Take the opportunity to be the lead. You have the ability to be the architect of your life. If buildings can be designed to ways we want to, why not our life? Flying would be something impossible or even be called as sorcery in the past. But the Wright Brothers decided to change that. They invented and built the world’s first successful aeroplane which now brings the whole world together and closer to the clouds. If they can do it with the minimal amount of education and technology, what’s stopping you to carry out your own wondrous ideas?

Design your life, make the change. Because no one said that life is one long road to follow.