Friday, May 9, 2008

The Balance sheet


To those of you my dear friends with no accounting background a balance sheet is a two sided financial document. One side for credit and another for the debit
The credit is all the plusses of the organization like assets, cash, loans etc.
the debits are clearly the costs.The break-even point you reach when both sides are equal.
To reach a gain the plusses should surplus the minusses and ofcourse a loss is the oposite scenario.
So by now you should have a approximate idea what i am talking about.
A month back a colleague of mine who obviously posesses some vision advised me to do a balance sheet of my LIFE.
He was referring to my Love life!!!
Anyway i didn't pay him much attention or as i usually do i pushed the bad thoughts in the back of my mind, coz this particular exercise would have ended with lots of sobs, self pity, lots of reflection abt lost oppurtunities and wrong decisions.
And this is the last thing i need right now.
But i could not help thinking about one decision i took a couple of years ago.
This one if anything needed some balancing.The decision is me coming to the UAE.
Ok The Credits are:
-I switched my carreer path from trade finance to retail marketing which is
deffinetely a plus
-I got promoted, sthg which i could never achieved in Egypt with the tempo i
experienced there
-I made new friends became familiar of new cultures.
-Better life
-Independence
The debits:
-I miss my parents
-I miss my friends
-I am missing out on important occasions(happy and sad)
-I am not there to give my parents and friends the support they need and God
knows they need it.
OOH dear could it get more complicated, the credits are about my carreer and peace of mind and the debits are about the people i love the most.
I can't even see a breakeven,I can't make out anything out of this balance sheet.
I don't even know what i want anymore clearly going back won't be a source of joy and me staying here is not delightful either.
My country is beautiful but i cannot live there.
Such a harsh position and a decision that could be neither right or wrong.
Simply a decision, which God only knows its impact on my life.
Anyways, i'll try to push this thought aswell to the back of my mind coz it's bugging me like hell.

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