I got several private messages, after posting a status of ‘You are right Mr Jobs, "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards." that's why life can be so unpredictable and has no pattern at the beginning but not later on :)’
“What did you mean in your status, Nurul?”
I found it quite difficult to answer in a sms. It won’t give me enough space to tell the whole ideas within. Moreover, it takes quite long time for me to realize the relation of Jobs’ quote with my experience.
So let me start with the children’s game of connecting dots. When i was child, i had a book of this game. Each page had a certain disguised pattern. The pattern was revealed after you see the whole dots in it, thoroughly. The picture then became clearer as you trying to connect each dots, carefully. AHA! You see a clear picture of a star, lets say.
So how that story relate to what we talk about at the beginning?
It is an abstract idea. We shall start, again, from the dots. Let’s make an agreement that a dot represents certain point of our life. It could be time when we decide to enter a school, to join a particular work, to travel, to break up with our girl/oy friend. Furthermore, it could be something that has nothing to do with your effort. The time where you significant others die, disaster, get gift, win a lottery or many others. Simply to say that the life of ours consist of many dots.
