What You Seek Is Seeking You

 

Persian Sufi Poet Rumi has been widely quoted many times:  WHAT YOU SEEK IS SEEKING YOU.  I believe this is stating the obvious BUT WHAT makes this quotable quote from Rumi stand out is the fact that it is truly relevant everyday in our life.  Samplings of this truism:  Someone was awarded a scholarship @Harvard.  WHY & HOW he bagged it?  BECAUSE he did SEEK for it.  That NY trader who amassed a huge windfall from the recent downturn of the market.  WHY & HOW he got it?  BECAUSE he was very closely monitoring the market behavior [and NOT to encourage INSIDER TRADING because this is a breach as per regulators BUT even that illegitimate INSIDER TRADING is happening because someone did SEEK for it.  That proud groom-to be about to get married with the Miss Universe candidate from Venezuela, Americas OR the Philippines.  WHY & HOW?  It's because he did SEEK and woo his bride-to be💚💛💜

For Christians, even the Bible gets to quote this SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND verse in Matthew 7:7.  Looking back through the years, if I had one pursuit that was embedded within me, it is the 'SEEK' mindset, akin to the 'heat-seeking' missiles that ultimately led to the fatal end of Iraq's despised despot, Saddam Hussein.  I can rattle off HOW many times I did SEEK out for something?  A zillion times I recall📌📌📌

WHEN I dreamt to work in the corporate world, I did SEEK the biggest possible players and I ended up with Shell Oil.  WHEN I was angling for a management role [WHICH I can't secure so soon @Shell Oil because many of my colleagues were digging on the 'long haul'], I did bag that management role @Dole Food.  WHEN I started to believe that the GRASS IS GREENER AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, I started eyeing at the Singapore job market.  In God's Grace, I [very smoothly] transitioned WHEN I migrated to Singapore.  WHEN I thought it's inevitable to run the full circle [and go back to my home country], no less than the country head of a U.S. MNC flew over to Singapore to interview me.  And YES, I did bag that equally juicy role back in my country.  WHEN I told myself that I was a born 'road warrior', I got it as I enjoyed every business trip even if it entailed 'living in a suitcase' alongside the long haul flights😋😋😋

Flipping things, WHAT IF we DON'T seek out things?  Of course that is one's prerogative.  NO one can compel us to do so.  BUT be prepared to face the ramifications, WHICH could be long, like:

• MISSING OUT opportunities - that's stating the obvious
• MISSING OUT the better option - ending with bread crumbs
• MISSING OUT borrowed time - lost time is lost time, period
• MISSING OUT better benefits - benefits are NOT constants!
• MISSING OUT efforts exerted - efforts are NOT constants!
• MISSING OUT upsides - which are NOT constants either!
• MISSING OUT all other upsides - which are NOT constants

Our takeaway:  NO hard-sell here.  NO sales pitch either.  A hell lot out there is for our taking.  And to egg and convince someone to go full throttle is akin to doing a disservice to the person.  From a physics perspective, the energy should be ignited from within [and NOT via any other extension].  WHILE success is NEVER guaranteed, let's agree that your probability of succeeding is much higher if you SEEK WHAT YOU WANT TO SEEK❗❗❗