A perfect calling

As I was lamenting to a friend about how our life is filled with the never-ending exams, I was brought back to that Sunday afternoon, in St Henry's church, probably about 10 plus, close to 11am, the time when choir practice usually began, with Robert sitting on top of the cabinet, as usual. Somehow, the conservation involved him, my good friend, Stephanie, and I and it was about our ambitions. Stephanie said she wanted to be a surgeon...Yeah, she was very specific, not doctor, but surgeon. And I said I wanted to be a lawyer. Somehow again, Robert laughed, somewhat, a little ridiculously, if my memory served me right. He said something about what Steph would probably end up as but I couldn't remember what. And he said that "Eunice will probably end up doing something that she needs to study, study and study her whole life." Oh well, I probably was a severe nerd since then.

Even in my autograph book (autograph books were the 'in' thing during primary school years), Steph wrote down surgeon as her ambition and I wrote lawyer as mine. That was when we were in Standard 1. Now, 17 years down the road (Oh Gosh! 17 YEARS?!!! *freaking out* Am I really that old already?), Stephanie is reading law and I am going to be a doctor , who aspires to be a surgeon. Ain't that funny?! Life's twist!

I wish I could ask Robert now how did he know even then what I would end up as. He could read us so well. I have never ever thought of becoming a doctor since young. Never. Lawyer and journalist were my ambitions. But never a doctor. Not until Form 5 or Form 6 at least, when I found my interest in Biology. That was when I decided I wanted to take up something in the Biology field. And here I am. I could never have chosen a more suitable field for myself. Looking back...lawyer? journalist? Nah....I could never be either one of those. And because I have never imagined that I would be a doctor, I am even more in awe of God's mysterious plan. It could only be Him who put me here. I didn't choose it first. Well, I did in the end, but God chose it for me first. And because of this, I know for sure that I can never regret, not now, not in the future because this is my calling. A calling that is perfect for me. He chose it and so it can never be wrong.