It's all about Timing!

It was kind of fascinating to listen to someone - an entrepreneur - recalling the previous cycles of economic downturn. More enlightening is about how he hit the business opportunities that came by after the downturn was sustained. Perhaps an over-simplification of a success story, but it is not far from the truth that it is always about doing the right thing at the right time.

Now at a stage of semi-retirement and in a position to pick and choose clienteles which come by without over-stretching his capacity - even in face of the current economic crisis - he is smugly focusing on enjoying life, particularly on maintaining his health to enjoy life luxuries.

As a corporate executive, I may likewise recall previous cycles of hard times - though more of self-inflicted blunders and faux pas - and perhaps even one narrow escape from corporate fatality. But I seem yet to benefit from a right timing of doing the right thing to mark my turn - if there is indeed a turn as mine.

Nevertheless, no less thought-provoking was meeting somebody's daughter - in her early 30s - who told me that our last encounter was during her teenage, as was revisiting those places when I first set foot on 15 years ago. I hope my sanity of mind improves with age as the world passes me by.