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Make meaning / Tuesday, March 20, 2007 @ 4:53 PM
I am only able to write it since I do not have classes on Tuesdays. Yay.I am also excited because I can finally get on to my reading. I am almost done with 'Taking Opportunities' and I shall be starting on this months BOM soon.
So yesterday did not turn out too badly in school. Its just that me having to return to bedok after school in the morning is tiring but the supplement Double X I have been taking is fantastic. I did not feel tired at all! If I have to be in base school in the morning, my day starts really early so usually by 9 pm I will feel sleepy and tired. But yesterday I was still online amending my lesson plan! On days that I dont have to drag my feet around the house due to exahustion, those days are considered great days!
I was talking to one of the relief teachers and it was an interesting coversation. Usually the teachers will start talking to me by asking what do I really do with the boys. After hearing my intellectual answer to what we (SNOs) really do with the boys, she was so excited that she wanted to apply this position. It is too bad that they only recruit once a year so she have to wait! While talking to this relief teacher and understanding a little bit of her background and where she is coming from, I realise that she likes to teach but it took her so long to decide that she wants to do this for a living. I also realised that she does not know what to do with her life and even she cannot believe she did not pursue teaching earlier.
It is not that I do not like her but I can understand where she was coming from. Plus, I think she needs to get her eyes check because she thought I was 18?! How can a teacher in school be 18? Duh. Anyway it is always nice when people think you are younger than your actual age.
This is a typical conversation to me. Doing business and talking to some young adults, have led me to concluding that most young people nowadays do not really know what to do with themselves. This is sad because we are all born to do something great, not just for ourselves but also for others. Remember the times when we were younger? There were no limitations to how big our dreams were. What happened after that?
Generally life must have a purpose and you must know that you are moving forward, if not you might end up feeling stagnate and depressed after a short while.
Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle of the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success and failure is of less account. -- John Gardner
Taken from the book Fish! (Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen)
Talking about depression, I am facing this challenge again except this time it is not me. I have always felt sorry for myself for being a victim of depression but come to think of it, I think I was stupid.
Apart from the fact that self pity is the worst destruction one can ever do to oneself, I forgot that we can think and make choices. Everyday, you wake up and choose to be happy. Choose to make the day a great. You can feel like crap but if you choose to feel good, you will eventually feel good. The mind is a powerful tool and gift that we have and most people just do not use it to its maximum potential. That is sad news.
Anyway, my favourite series ended yesterday and its so annoying when it is a cliffhanger! Why cant they just express their love and be together happily ever after? Its gotta happen somewhere and inside the tv was my best option. Darn it.
Make meaning
I am only able to write it since I do not have classes on Tuesdays. Yay.I am also excited because I can finally get on to my reading. I am almost done with 'Taking Opportunities' and I shall be starting on this months BOM soon.
So yesterday did not turn out too badly in school. Its just that me having to return to bedok after school in the morning is tiring but the supplement Double X I have been taking is fantastic. I did not feel tired at all! If I have to be in base school in the morning, my day starts really early so usually by 9 pm I will feel sleepy and tired. But yesterday I was still online amending my lesson plan! On days that I dont have to drag my feet around the house due to exahustion, those days are considered great days!
I was talking to one of the relief teachers and it was an interesting coversation. Usually the teachers will start talking to me by asking what do I really do with the boys. After hearing my intellectual answer to what we (SNOs) really do with the boys, she was so excited that she wanted to apply this position. It is too bad that they only recruit once a year so she have to wait! While talking to this relief teacher and understanding a little bit of her background and where she is coming from, I realise that she likes to teach but it took her so long to decide that she wants to do this for a living. I also realised that she does not know what to do with her life and even she cannot believe she did not pursue teaching earlier.
It is not that I do not like her but I can understand where she was coming from. Plus, I think she needs to get her eyes check because she thought I was 18?! How can a teacher in school be 18? Duh. Anyway it is always nice when people think you are younger than your actual age.
This is a typical conversation to me. Doing business and talking to some young adults, have led me to concluding that most young people nowadays do not really know what to do with themselves. This is sad because we are all born to do something great, not just for ourselves but also for others. Remember the times when we were younger? There were no limitations to how big our dreams were. What happened after that?
Generally life must have a purpose and you must know that you are moving forward, if not you might end up feeling stagnate and depressed after a short while.
Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle of the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success and failure is of less account. -- John Gardner
Taken from the book Fish! (Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen)
Talking about depression, I am facing this challenge again except this time it is not me. I have always felt sorry for myself for being a victim of depression but come to think of it, I think I was stupid.
Apart from the fact that self pity is the worst destruction one can ever do to oneself, I forgot that we can think and make choices. Everyday, you wake up and choose to be happy. Choose to make the day a great. You can feel like crap but if you choose to feel good, you will eventually feel good. The mind is a powerful tool and gift that we have and most people just do not use it to its maximum potential. That is sad news.
Anyway, my favourite series ended yesterday and its so annoying when it is a cliffhanger! Why cant they just express their love and be together happily ever after? Its gotta happen somewhere and inside the tv was my best option. Darn it.
