Realizations at 2 in the Morning
I was watching Friends yesterday and I remember Alan—the guy Monica was dating at that episode—advising Chandler not to smoke. He did it easily, effortlessly, and successfully. Plus, he did it so quickly. His friends tried almost everything to stop him but only Alan succeeded. No one, except for Chandler, knew what Alan said because it was a telephone conversation. At the end of the conversation, Chandler said something like, "No one has ever put it up that way." And like any other person, I was wondering what Alan could have said to convince Chandler to quit smoking.
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I remember writing on my journal (it's a project in English class) and asking my teacher, "Does it always have to be that way? Will I become a teacher too?" That day, he was telling us that he never dreamt of becoming a teacher. But he became one, anyway. Another teacher also told us the same thing and obviously, he had the same fate. And I was sort of seeing one of my blog entries in the future beginning like this:
"Years back, I have always told people that I wanted to become someone like this person. And now I'm like this. Very far, or at least a little far, from what I was imagining myself to be."
BTW, my teacher's advice was to follow my will because it might happen.
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Someone was telling me about a short conversation of two characters. I'll try hard to make it sound the way it sounded this morning. I forgot the exact words. Hehehe.
Character1: If I do this, it would take 34 years of my life.
Character2: But if you do it, you will know that it's worth it. Because it's what you want. Anything that your heart desires is worth waiting for. Your life will be of greatest value if you have reached your dreams.
What if Character1 had two options? And he likes both options. The second option requires only a short time. And given that time, he would have more time to fulfill the rest of his dreams. He would be able to fulfill more. Isn't that kind of life more valuable? Being able to do more?
But the storyteller argued:
Your life will be more valuable if you did what you really wanted. You don't create a second option and force yourself to like it so you could get away from the first option.
And I said, "Oh. No one has ever put it up that way."
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I remember writing on my journal (it's a project in English class) and asking my teacher, "Does it always have to be that way? Will I become a teacher too?" That day, he was telling us that he never dreamt of becoming a teacher. But he became one, anyway. Another teacher also told us the same thing and obviously, he had the same fate. And I was sort of seeing one of my blog entries in the future beginning like this:
"Years back, I have always told people that I wanted to become someone like this person. And now I'm like this. Very far, or at least a little far, from what I was imagining myself to be."
BTW, my teacher's advice was to follow my will because it might happen.
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Someone was telling me about a short conversation of two characters. I'll try hard to make it sound the way it sounded this morning. I forgot the exact words. Hehehe.
Character1: If I do this, it would take 34 years of my life.
Character2: But if you do it, you will know that it's worth it. Because it's what you want. Anything that your heart desires is worth waiting for. Your life will be of greatest value if you have reached your dreams.
What if Character1 had two options? And he likes both options. The second option requires only a short time. And given that time, he would have more time to fulfill the rest of his dreams. He would be able to fulfill more. Isn't that kind of life more valuable? Being able to do more?
But the storyteller argued:
Your life will be more valuable if you did what you really wanted. You don't create a second option and force yourself to like it so you could get away from the first option.
And I said, "Oh. No one has ever put it up that way."
posted by Alyzza @ 7:31 AM
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