Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Taking Stock at 39 ( on life) It is my birthday today, and I am all of 39.  One more strike, and I will enter that magic age, 40, when they say life really begins or in other words, when your living parts really begin to ache.  Give or take a few years, and this is the time when you find out you cannot go the distance as you once easily could, and that endless horizon called LIFE which you thought you could travel forever is starting to show visibility.  I always joked that there are 2 stages in a person's life.  The first stage is when you want to look and sound older than you really are.  I am now entering the second stage.  That is when you  want to look and sound younger than you really are. When you have a birthday, you are bound to see your life flash in front of you.  As the years passed, the flash has become longer and longer.  Now i have lived 14,235 days ( approximately), and that is  a loooonnnng memory to remember.  When you put on years, you also start to count how many of these were HAPPY days, and NOT WASTED days. A few days ago, a famous politician here passed away, quite unexpectedly.  When events like this happens, it always bring to us a reminder of our own mortality, and we could go anyday.  Why am I talking about morbid things on a birthday ? -- because when we take stock of our life, we inevitably bring to the picture our legacy -- which is really the only thing you can leave behind after you are gone ...  And planning that have to take into account that you may not have all the time you need to accomplish that thing you really want. What do I really want?  20 years ago, I was sure. I wanted to be the richest man in the world.  Now, I still want to, but I am also intelligent enough now to know i will never make it -- not by a wide margin.  Maybe I love life too much, or maybe I care or think too much about other life's riches ( reputation, relationships, family, learning, arts, music, cultures, wildlife etc) to make it big time.  Or maybe I am just giving an excuse , and I really could not do it even if I wanted to.  Age has a bad way of reminding you you really are no SUPERMAN, or invincible being you once believed you were. But for those that aspire to be richer materially, you can give it a try.  I always believe money will not make you happy, but at least it will help in not making you miserable..., supposedly.  I still believe the person in the movie CITIZEN KANE, who said, " If you really want to be rich, it is not difficult as long as that IS the only thing you want."  But many of us want more than just money.  We also want many things besides.  How you balance that and work towards accomplishing that is not my decision to make, but yours to decide for your own life. Maybe not having enough dollars to  ( buy? ) make a difference in this world ( which I think deep down is what we all want to do), I will just do it by making a difference in other ways, maybe through teaching , writing,  and living the good life. But then life goes on, and I like to quote Mahatma Gandhi who said, Live as if it is the last day of your life.  Learn as if you will live forever. 2:11:54 PM     comment []   trackback []

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