Little Boxes

Written by Norma on 28 February 2011

As work would have it, I have been busy. Putting together a new business in Singapore, running around, sorting things out and putting together this retail shop at one of the busiest malls in town for kids. Did you know that your GSR writer has a love for the Arts? And for children? Well, I do. And I own and run an art school that teaches art to children from age 3 upwards. Kinderart is a 5-year old company and has less to show for it than I would have wanted because I had spent so much time away from Singapore in the last 5 years.

But this year, we decided to really put in the work and effort, and investment, to make it work. Hence the retail shop and the rest of it.

Today, I found a great little song that I used to sing as a kid. The singing teacher at Bukit Bintang Girls’ School taught it to us, but I doubt now that she understood what the song meant. I have downloaded it and reuploaded it into You Tube. This is the link.

Sung by Malvina Reynolds, it tells of people who go through life all in some formula, living conventional lives. It would also sound like she means to ‘mock’ the conventional life, but look again, and perhaps not. Except for words like Ticky-Tacky, meaning that we go through such plastic-ky lives… doing what we think is ‘right’ at the right time.

Which brings me to a training programme I recently did with a group of fabulous women leaders in their 20s. They have their lives ahead of them, these wonderful women. Mistakes to be made, glories to be won, and so many things. Time is on their side and they will embark on the most miraculous journey called ‘life’. How will they choose? Ticky Tacky lives? Or exciting fabulous unpredictable and amazing lives… how they choose to live will also determine how they lead the groups they will become responsible for. Of course, no one expects anyone to be Bungee Jump Sort Of Leader… but the choices we make in life do so determine the extent we will go and how far we push the envelope in our lives.

Ticky Tacky? Just the same?

These are thoughts indeed….

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