Season 6, Episode 3: Dare to be different

" Sing it for the world, sing it for the world! " - Sing, MCR.

Lately, i encountered several 'requests' tempting me to be different. Asking me to go outside my box, outside my comfort zone and take risk. Sometimes, i ponder to myself, have i not been daring enough to do something different? Have i not tried taking risks, facing challenges, overcoming obstacles? Have i changed enough for the people to see that i have changed?

It's not easy to answer these questions because the person involved is the person i see in front of the mirror. And to answer these questions is to look back, reflect, and find the answers. If i have not been pushing myself to my limit, daring to be different, i doubt if i could even be here. In uni. Juggling studies with responsibilities.

There's no need to try so hard- or sometimes, we're just trying so hard to prove to ourselves that we become not the person we know. The main point is that we know who we are, we know ourselves best. Life takes its course, taking us down a road filled with bumps and turns. And through that, we may be aware, or unaware, that it is teaching us a lesson, guiding us to handle the situation and testing us on an ungraded trial. We don't need to go around telling people we have changed. We don't need to find challenges because it will come to you. We don't need to dress differently, talk differently, act differently to highlight the external changes. We should dare to be different but not to the point where we lose our uniqueness and our true self because the moment we lose that in us, it is the time that we become common. When we know inside that we are different and we have changed, people will know. People can see.

And even if they don't, in time, they will come to see that we have changed.

One thing i know i am is that i am a planner. I plan most of my time. What i want to accomplish today, what i want to accomplish over the week, what i want to do later. The only problem is that it sometimes can become too rigid. Sometimes when i planned everything all so nicely, some unforeseen mistake comes to ruin the plan and causes the domino effect- all plans have to slowly reorganize. So the one thing that i need to work on now is flexibility. My plan is to be readily open for changes. We can plan, but that's the furthest we can go. We cannot control the future to be in place of the plan.

That's some serious piece of sharing. Switching topic, i'm still not done with my CNY posts. Second day of CNY in Melaka!

With all the cousins from mom side.

With the youngest aunt!

Playing cards is part of tradition.

So, try posting those questions to yourself. See how it comes out to be.

wc11.