North C: Like a CHILD, Like a CHAMPION

Sunday, March 1, 2009

BEAUTIFUL SCRATCH

Date: 28′Feb’ 2009
Venue: Plaza Singapura’s Macdonald’s.
Time: 7.15pm
Mood: Happy. Ecstatic. Elated. High.

Incident:
*Joan reached out to the side pocket of her big bag
*Reached out for her phone
*Noticed a white thin thread on her handphone screen
*Attempted to wipe it off with her fingers
*Leaving many visible fingerprints on her handphone screen
*Only to realize that that it wasn’t a ‘white thin thread’
*It was a deep 1cm scratch
*Squinted her eyes to see if it really is a scratch
*Inner voice told her ”It’s a scratch, you dumbo”
* ”AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
-THE END-

Ohyes, I swear I could hear my heart break right at that minute. This phone means much to me ‘cuz it’s the very first phone bought by my parents. Previously, I used phones which were being ”passed down” by either my sister or my parents. So yeah, it meant a whole lot. I was really really really down. I called my dad and told him ’bout it and he blamed me for removing the screen protector. Urgh, talk about rubbing salt into my wound. =.=

Yeah, I admit I emo-ed for a short while and not wanting to allow my emotions to affect the people around me, I went aside and talked to God.

Joan: ”OhGodddd. Very heart pain leh! I didn’t even drop it, where on earth did that stupid scratch came from!?”
God: ”It’s just a mere scratch, for goodness sake! At least you didn’t lost your phone. At least it still function well. At least you can still make phone calls. At least you can still send text messages.”
Joan: -Speechless- ”Okay lor, you win. As usual.”

Yeah, say me childish, I dont care. Ha! But yeah, God made perfect sense. As I continued to listen to Him, these are what I’d learnt:

God sees beond our scratches.
We’re imperfect. We have our flaws. God sees it. He knows it. But yet He love us still. Just like how He reminded me of being grateful that my phone’s still functioning well, His focus, is never ever on the ’scratches’ within us. He sees beyond that. He see the light shining within us which others fails to see. He sees the potential waiting to be unleashed. He sees how much more better and successful we can be. Even when we fail him, nothing, and I really mean nothing, is able to change His mind in believing and seeing the best within us.
Somtimes, we focus too much on the little scratch, rather than the big picture.
For a few good minutes, my eyes were glued to the 1cm scratch, feeling really sorry for it. But as I tried to see like how God sees, to step back and see the phone as a whole, the scratch was not as evident as before, it’s almost invisible. Conclusion? I’d been squinting my eyes for too long, focusing on the scratch for too long and dwelling in self-pity for too long.

I called Nokia and asked if I’m still able to get it fixed with the warranty given. But I gave a second thought and well, perhaps I can just leave the scratch there as it is. After all, it’d taught me a great lesson and yes, it’s a beautiful scratch.

God still knows me best, speaking to me in daily/random incidents.
For the 9349876576964985796 times, I wanna proclaim loudly:

GOD! YOU ROCK!!

AriellaJoan

North C wrote at ;; 1:21 AM