All of My Heart

By Teguh Pranoto Chen

In this emotional and thought provoking story, we follow the heart stopping moments of a hardworking professional as he faces the fact that he may never get the chance to say goodbye to his beloved family. While incorporating a whole host of business wisdoms gained through his extensive real-life experience, author Teguh Pranoto Chen remembers that it can be all too easy to lose focus on what is in our heart and the people we hold dear. This realization allows him to wake every morning, looking forward to making his best contributions to the company and to returning home every night to his loving family... And realizing that should this ever be his final day, he has given it his all ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Nov 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9789811113116

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Prologue

There’s that indigestion again. Popping another antacid tablet, I rub my chest. Happens every time I eat lunch on the run… I tut to myself, making a mental note to let that be the last time I neglect my dietary needs for the sake of squeezing in an extra meeting.

I can almost hear my father telling me off… You’ve got to start taking care of yourself, son. You’re not getting any younger.

Then it takes me. A searing pain like a lightning bolt tearing in through my chest and exiting through my lower back. A sweaty sickness from deep down in the pit of my stomach and an agonizing cramping in my arm prevents me from keeping control of the wheel. Lifting my foot from the gas, I’m preparing to die. If the heart attack doesn’t kill me, I am certain in my mind that the impending collision will.

I begin to pray for the first time since my wife became ill during the birth of my youngest child. I pray that I will get to say goodbye. A pain is shattering my heart now, not the physical pain, not the muscles in my heart dying from a lack of oxygen rich blood, but emotional pain.

God, I wish I had spent more time with the people I love.

There is always a sky above the sky

Then I feel myself going back, back to a time when I had just completed my degree. I remember that proud, puffed-out-chest feeling as if it was yesterday. Graduating with the highest grades in my class, I had even delivered the valedictory address at the graduation ceremony. I had preceded most of my peers in what was the best university in the country. Wow, the world is my oyster, I thought.