Personality Reborn.....

Yesterday I had a short tea break session with a colleague of mine who is back in KL for a week. I was telling her the difficulty I'm having with my new role and she dragged me to pantry to share with me some advise and guidance. I felt so much better after talking to her.

Frankly, she used to be someone whom I'm not keen to work with. She is short tempered, very demanding and escalate all the way up if she don't get what she wants.

2 years back, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she was on prolong sickness leave for 6 months. When she was back to work, she was totally a new person. She is no longer that difficult to work with. A couple of months after she was back to work, she moved out from her sales team and join the operation team. In her new role, we did worked together in a couple of projects and to be honest, I find her so pleasant to work with. We became regular chit chat buddy when we moved to the new office.

I feel sad when she decided to move down to SG. On and off we do chat via the office communicator and we will always stop by each other's cubicle whenever we are on site, be it I'm in SG or she is in KL.

Well, I guess life experience can really change a person, be it his/her bad habits, in-born traits or personality. For her, I guess she learnt how to find peace with herself and it's easier to lead a life by helping people rather than making other people's life miserable.