Liberation is enjoying a cup of Ah Huat kopi at my mum’s house first thing in the morning and browsing supermarket catalogues.
It’s also being able to tie your daughter’s hair into a ponytail in the morning.
Liberation is being able to drop your kids off at school with your parents. Joy is seeing how much your father and daughter love and adore each other. They are each other’s 开心果.
Liberation is handing in your work pass, your laptop and mobile to the IT department and having a handover session with your boss. Relief is hearing your close colleague wishing you well in your new role, despite knowing it may mean conflicts with him in his current role. Joy is knowing that he is truly happy for me and wishes nothing but the best for me. Sadness is knowing that he is still deeply unhappy with work, and so are the other colleagues I have left behind.
Bemused is how I felt when I saw my boss’s reaction about my new job, he is not happy about the news and couldn’t quite mask his concern. Liberation is feeling that leaving him and the workplace was the best decision for me.
daitaoha 