Tuesday With Morrie

Well... My latest reading, after a series of Malcom Gladwell's book...

If i'm not mistaken, this book was written last decade, 1997... I was still a young girl back then. But seriously, i find this book absolutely inspiring!!! :)

I constantly have these goosebumps and touching moments throughout my whole reading! GOSH... thats been a long time since a book does this to me... :P

If you do happened to have a chance reading this, PLEASE DO... you won't regret it... and i hope that it'll inspire you they way as it has inspired me! :)

The ‘Touchy-Feely’ Course
An exercise that Morrie had his students did during his course.

Let me quote a small paragraph that really touched me from the book.

On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We
are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backwards, relying on
another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we
cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in
embarrassment.
Finally, one student, a thin, quiet,
dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wearing bulky white fisherman
sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her eyes, leans back, and does
not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes
into the pool.

For a moment, I am sure she is going to thump of the floor.
At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and yanks
her up harshly.

“Whoa!” several students yell. Some clap.

Morrie finally smiles.

“You see,” he says to the girl, “you closed your eyes. That
was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see; you have to
believe what you feel. And if you are ever to have other people trust you, you
must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when
you’re falling.”

Wow... right after i finish the last word of that paragraph... I can feel the moist in my eyes... Hmmm but then again, this is really a subjective matter, cause different people might have different judgement for this kind of feeling. Anyway... i just wanted to share this wonderful book with you all... hope you'll enjoy it too! :)

Risk Taker? or a Safe Player?

Yup Yup! Life is too short to sit down and ponder about all the 'what if...' and I've decided not to play safe anymore!

At the end of December 2009, I've made quite a risky move... moving out from my comfort zone just to see what i can achieve at this brand new place...

Risk was made, resulting consequences that i had to bare, though its all now over... but come to think of the first few weeks after i finalize and made that decision, the whole process was all so over-whelming! >.<''' that is indeed a very good experience for me, and i guess despite all the negative consequences that cost me, i would still choose this risky decision.

Moving towards a new decade of our current millenium, i figured that i really have not much time left to waste... Turning in to my mid-twenties this year, leaving me even lesser time for explore all the possibilities and most importantly being able to experience life as free will as i can do at my teens...

I actually feel quite lucky that i could embrace the opportunity given to me, making risky decision, learning to be independant, crying alone through the lonely nights when i feel all hopeless, satisfied when i know i've overcome all the difficulties and finally being able to reach a state of stability (well... not to say that i am all stable and steady now... +_+''' but at least i know i am adapting to the new environment here). All this contributes in to my life experience, its all the answers to my 'what if...' questions. Though its tough, but at least i found answers to it, with no regrets! :)

Living life with no regrets, answering all my 'what if...' questions is what i feel responsible to myself for at least the last few years of my twenties, because i know after that things will be all different. BUT, of course... i'm still obliged to whatever i need to do as a daughter, as a sister, as human to this society! >.<>

Its impossible that i will ask questions like, 'what if i robbed a bank?' right?! +_+''' come on man...

I want to remember my twenties as being a risk-taker and remember all these soul searching incidents of my life... Good or bad, its subjective to everyone... as long as I'm still breathing, i will still embrace whatever comes along my soul searching path! :)

New Ideas :)

Exploring new ideas! My other new work, despite the long blanky project that I’ve been working on for more than 3 months now… :P First attempt in making these small small stuff… trying to learn some new techniques from mama… but still couldn't get my hands on the right track yet! >.<’’’ well… as they say, practices makes perfect! I’m sure with more practices; I’ll get it done one day! :)