From my random chatting with people from different walks of life, I just thought of making few remarks about few. In particular, how we deal with critics, perceiving one's own self, curiosity, doing one's best, originality, and skin color . Here follows my naive reflections about these thoughts partly based on Things We Forget. I understand that we might have heard of all these thoughts in a number of occasions, but for me it is easier said than done (myself included!).
One's Self: accept yourself. If you are in a fight against yourself to accept yourself the way you are, there is no rational in accepting others unless you are officially declaring yourself as a lifetime pretender. Be yourself or you risk spending your life living someone else's life. There is no double self. There is only one oneself. So, focus on the only one self which is yourself. There is no better competitor than yourself with you. So, compete only with yourself and collaborate more with others. The sweetest and the most meaningful victory is one that you achieve on yourself as it takes a great deal of gut to first: accept your weaknesses, second: deal with your weaknesses, and third: transform your weaknesses to opportunities to improve yourself. You are what you are not what you say you are.
Originality: Be original, don't imitate or copy others. Every individual has something that every other individual doesn't have.
Voice for the Voiceless: Not all people are lucky enough to have their voices heard. Be, the voice for those who don't have one.
Amazingness: Be amazing. Being alive and sensing that you are alive by itself is amazing.
Skin Color: For you can't and didn't decide the color of your skin, be comfortable with it. Another skin color is just another color. A rose is always a rose by any name or color. Color is about appearance, not about substance.
One's Self: accept yourself. If you are in a fight against yourself to accept yourself the way you are, there is no rational in accepting others unless you are officially declaring yourself as a lifetime pretender. Be yourself or you risk spending your life living someone else's life. There is no double self. There is only one oneself. So, focus on the only one self which is yourself. There is no better competitor than yourself with you. So, compete only with yourself and collaborate more with others. The sweetest and the most meaningful victory is one that you achieve on yourself as it takes a great deal of gut to first: accept your weaknesses, second: deal with your weaknesses, and third: transform your weaknesses to opportunities to improve yourself. You are what you are not what you say you are.
Stay curios. The world is full of unanswered questions and quite often this questions are embedded within the answers we gave to prior questions. On top of imagination, curiosity demands nothing more than passion and endurance. Be ready to go the extra mile it takes to embrace new ideas and analyze them so as to see the merits and demerits and make wise arguments. Change what you can and accept what you can't change. When possible, find a way. When not, make one yourself.
Doing One's Best: Do your best as there is a big difference between failing without trying and failing while trying your best. Dare to fail and confront embarrassment by first dreaming and then doing. Trying your best doesn't just mean sweating on one strategy. Rather, breaking the routine and challenging the status-quo to approach a problem from many different directions and in doing so, care well about the means so much as you do care about the end. In fact, expect the best outcome but also be equally prepared for the worst. Do what you love and love what you do and remember to have an attentive eye to spot-out and celebrate success (no matter small it might be). Start small, in small achievements see the big picture and aim high.Originality: Be original, don't imitate or copy others. Every individual has something that every other individual doesn't have.
Voice for the Voiceless: Not all people are lucky enough to have their voices heard. Be, the voice for those who don't have one.
Critics: on any occasion, fearlessly welcome and be grateful to criticism as it is a rare opportunity people offer you and only people who care about you do criticize you. In fact, they could have kept quite and let you live with your weaknesses.
Skin Color: For you can't and didn't decide the color of your skin, be comfortable with it. Another skin color is just another color. A rose is always a rose by any name or color. Color is about appearance, not about substance.
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