Oh, look (at my half hearted attempt to atleast put up a visual on my blog post)! That shot of the ong-lai came in handy afterall, just when I needed it the most.
I’ve been in a slump recently. I didn’t take much photos, didn’t edit photos, didn’t do this, didn’t do that.
I should just rename myself, Miss Didn’t-do.
The day finally came when I don’t have any pictures to update the blog with (which by the way, is the perfect excuse to not update blog).
I miss the me, who’s driven by passion. The me now is driven by sleep – if I embark on this, would I have less sleep? If yes, skip. If no, monitor, it could still very jeopardize my sleep in the long run.
Yes, judge if you must. Like any other human-being who is now stuck in the rat race, sleep is for the utmost important to me. I’m being very self-centric right here, there I’ve said it, stop hounding me over it. I became someone who is very focused on just getting by day to day.
Alarm rings, wake up, bathe, breakfast, work, home, dinner, sleep, repeat.
I am your average city-dweller, who just wants the week to get through, so I can finally end the reign of the alarm clock on weekends. I am comfortable, everything is on auto-pilot mode.
Alls good, no?
Then on Friday, when I finally did sit down and watch a video. And it left me thinking, am I truly living? (cues existential crisis music)
I repeated his speech twice. There’s many brilliant souls that he mentioned. But the one thing he hoped for everyone of his friends present in the hall, struck me. Indeed, facing darkness with dignity.
Forget about long term dreams. Let us be passionately dedicated to the pursuit of short term goals, Micro-ambitious.
Work with passion and pride of what is infront of us.
We don’t know where we might end up, or when it might end up.
There you have it, Jake Bailey handled life after death with grace, dignity and wisdom. Death, reminds each and every one of us, that our time on this planet is finite. To some, death is but a rude awakening, or a legit excuse to further spiral down the abyss.
We are all so engrossed with setting long term goals, and work fiercely towards it. That we left out the minor progresses that deserves a celebration. Because in our own eyes, we are never enough, we are never adequate as compared to the brilliant souls who walked before us.
We are never enough.
The video is a timely reminder, that we are enough, if we seek to work with pride and passion.
We are enough.
I am enough.
It is time to ditch our worst critics, and enable us to grow at our own time and our own space. Ultimately, as time rolls by, you realize that perhaps, we are all…
anything but ordinary.
Accurate caption: I ITCHY. I ANGST.I SQUEEZE DIE DIS BUBBLE.
Accurate caption: SQUEEEEEEZE! AND POP!
Accurate Caption: I can’t pop bubbles, read, turn pages and take photos at the same time.
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