Kickoff!

So this entry will hereby kickoff what hopefully will be a consistent process of self-reflection. This was triggered at a WDA career workshop called Adaptive Thinking, where the trainer suggested doing a new activity for 10 minutes a day for at least 40 days. After a little brainstorming, this idea of thinking of something to be appreciative about from that day was conceived.

I guess the gist of it is to intentionally think of positive thoughts out of what happened that day. That way, every day there will be a good thing coming out of it, and hence constant satisfaction with life?

That said, I spent a little bit of time looking at the old blogs I had. 1615 entries for the primary blog! That, and those class blogs, short blogs that died prematurely etc.. Gosh I really must love blogging in the past eh? Some old memories of blogging popped into my head: That carefree expression of what I felt those days..


Anyways! Today's appreciation is inspired by an Infinity Challenge episode 470 (tv show! yes cheating!). The episode was about how the IC hosts were dispersed around different areas of Seoul, and each placed in a tent in secret. The tents had a label that said "Erasing Bad Memories" and the idea is to have those who want to erase bad memories to write them down in pencil on paper, then erase with a "Bad Memory Eraser"

There were different people with different bad memories, ranging from childhood bullying, not visiting a dying father, feeling bad for talking back at the parents, or even of a crush of whom the girl cannot requite their fondness for cause of their need to study.

I guess from the episode, I started to appreciate the fact that I have had a generally problems-free childhood, with no bullying that really affected me. Perhaps it was my height, or I was just lucky to be surrounded by somewhat nice people. I've witnessed bullying in NS where a malay dude was upset with another chinese guy and basically kept sabotaging him in multiple ways. It's an act of cowardice, to intimidate and make life hard for another person. I have been blessed in this.

Another thing to be appreciative of: that my parents have not had major worries that have trickled down to the children and affected us. I guess I ought to be appreciative of having parents that generally have their act together and have not let their problems affected us. I do remember my mother crying in the past though, because of the nasty or childish things that us boys had done as kids. While that'll always bug me, but I think this memory has driven me to not do stuff that may be overly upsetting to her, or dad, nowadays. We all make mistakes, and I'm glad I still have opportunities to make up for the anguish I might have caused them in the past.

Of course, parents being parents, they'll always worry for me. Life goes on I guess, in a simple, mundane way :)

And that took 20 minutes. Damn my longwindedness. Shall strive to type shorter next time, maybe point form even heh. Cheerios~