Challenging the paradigms

I was asked for my company profile the other day by an officer who was handling our application to manage another hostel.He was taken aback when I said " Sorry ,I have no such profile because my company is me ".He asked me what I meant and I said " My credentials are in the form of my record as an educationist " and I listed to him my experiences as an educationist and after that he said "OK no need for company profile".
On looking back and reflecting many would still wonder why I am still working at an age when many would be happily retired.Challenging existing paradigms has always been what I like to do.Playing active golf at this age and sometimes beating my younger opponents is so much fun.I have a friend who is is his mid fifties who is always so frustrated when he loses to me because we play level ie he does not give me any handicap and for me its such an achievement to be able to do that.Working?Why not? I have told myself that I will work for as long as I can and for as long as I am wanted.
I still find that many young people need guidance and they cant even remember things better than me.I cannot imagine sitting at home day after day and just waiting to die.I would rather die on the job or die on the golf course.Then you go doing the things you like .Education is such a challenging field and one can get no better satisfaction than to be able to pass on knowledge and experience to the young and nothing is more satisfying than seeing them learn .That is why till today I still like to teach and I have a group of Vietnamese and Indonesian students whom I am helping to improve on their English.I do this on my free time and do not take any money from them and the reward of seeing them improve day by day is certainly worth more than money.
They say you never know what you are capable of until you have to do it.I never imagined that I could cook but when I was in Uzbekistan I had no choice but to do it as eating places there are limited.I have so been used to mum's meals all the while that I never bothered to learn how to cook but because there was no other choice I cooked my dinner every night when in Uzbekistan and as it went on began to enjoy churning out different types of dishes.Unfortunately when back to Malaysia the need was no longer there cos good old mum takes care of the food and you can always get food outside.
Bottom line ,we can do anything if we set our heart and mind to it but then there are things which we simply cannot change or do anything about.You will find it difficult to change somebody or save somebody from sickness>It is so sad to see my elder sister wasting away.She is no longer the sister I knew and whenever I look at her I think of the time when we were all young staying in the same house.All said and done I have only good memories of her and I always come out depressed after seeing her in her condition today.This is something which we can do nothing about ,nothing which we can change and this realization helps you draw the line between what you can do and not do and therein perhaps lies the secret of happy living.