breathe

Received a text this morning from an old friend, QT, who told me that she just met up with Glen and I came up in their conversations. And then QT shared the above TED talk with me hoping that I can find enlightenment.  

:') I'm really very touched? Haven't talked to QT for so long but little things like this, having Glen mention about me and for them to care for me and sharing stuffs that can help, means so much to me. And it really reminded me what true friendship is... especially at a time when I'm pondering quite a bit over this topic.

What I love most about what this speaker said:

"Far from being sources of agony and dread, hard choices are precious opportunities for us to celebrate what is special about the human condition. That the reasons that govern our choices as correct or incorrect, sometimes run out. And it is here, in the space of hard choices, that we have the power to create reasons for ourselves, to become the distinctive people that we are."

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After close to 3 weeks of hard work and late nights and lack of sleep... basically not in the best frame of health/mind... I feel like I can finally afford to take some god damn rest after 2 midterms, 2 presentations, 2 projects all in 3 weeks. It officially starts today after I submitted our Valuation project...

which honestly I am very proud of because for the past few days my groupmates and I have been working hard on. But today reinforced a lesson that sometimes what's meant to happen will happen so we shouldn't blame ourselves too much for anything that didn't go as planned. Today I rose up to a challenge and very assertively put behind the mistakes to not let it affect our focus on more important things.

So I came back to hall feeling happy that I finally have the rest of the day (a good 6 hours or so) all to myself to do some rejuvenating of my poor soul... until I realised I have a project meeting in like less than an hour....

That was such bummer!

But it was partly my fault for not reminding myself 'cause the meeting date was set during that busy weekend where I barely checked my phone. So what needs to be done has to be done. I really needed a break but it's good to start early and keep our engine going too anyway.

I am just thankful that this week I can afford to have a little breather.

So don't even try to take it away from me, please.