#25 Appreciation: Love

Love, something everyone could relates to, it is a strong feeling of affection.

Love is abstract, and the only way to 'detect' it, is to feel it, or witness through the actions drive by love.

Love is priceless. None of us is obliged to love someone, so never take one's love for granted. Instead, be grateful that they have show such affection to you, they concern and care.

Because they love you, they continue to do something that against your likes, just because they thought what they did is the best for you. Even though you dont like what have been done, be rationale and understand the reasoning behind, rather than blindly fighting back.

Because they love you, they have been extremely patience and show such high endurance, but please dont be such extreme and overstep the border, just because they extended it for you.

Feel the love, Treasure the love, and Share the love.

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#24 Appreciation: Perseverance

Determination and perseverance, attributes that worth for me to further improve in. I am not as strong-will in certain aspect but I believe I will gradually improve as long as I desired it so badly. I am a person that prefer certainty, so I always want to get things laid out properly and being planned in advance. I cant wait, which makes me wanted to know the end result as quickly as possible, although I do procrastinate a little especially during the stress out/burn out period, and I tend to get distracted a lil.

That is the time my will is being challenged, to focus or to relax. I also discover that when I am nervous or fear, I will be distracted and to do some other items. Focus, focus, focus! The more I want, it seems further apart. It stroke me so badly when I watched the movie "The Green Lantern" (I am quite a late adopter).

"Fear is the enemy of will. Will is what makes you take action; fear is what stops you, and makes you weak... makes your constructs feeble."

"You must ignore your fear. When you're afraid, you can't act - you can't act, you can't defend - you can't defend, you die!"

Such beautiful quotes just continuously echoing inside my head and it made me realized that my will is not strong enough because I afraid I fail. I cant maintain my diet/exe, because I afraid that even though I tried I still dont get obvious result. I start to doubt about all my actions and efforts and I fear to not live up to expectation. I self analysed about my past and I found that my failure in my Standard 3 (Year 6) had made fear of failure to live up to one's expectation. That could be the reason that the further I go, the possibility for me to stop and not completing it (avoidance?). Now that I realized, I want to step out of it, train myself to be more strong willed, and challenge myself to be confident and succeed in it.

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#23 Appreciation: Bed

My favourite part of the house is none other than my room's bed! I love to flip and roll around the bed, and being the only daughter in the loving family, my parents granted my wish of having a queen size bed all by myself :) Awesome!

I am grateful that I am sleeping on a bed with a good mattress, a place where I can curl up in my blanket and  warm myself in the rainy days. Being able to sleep on a comfy bed ease the problem of backache and discomfort of sleeping on the floor. The bed may seem insignificant, but it is a luxury furniture to have to some people as they sleep on a wooden plank floor with a matt, or even just a spring-less mattress. Having a  proper rest is important as it will affect my performance (and me being emotional) if I dont get a proper rest. So, to my bed (+ mattress and blanket)...

Lots of hugs and kisses!! Please do continue to provide your full support and replenish my energy for the next day with a good night sleep :)

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#22 Appreciation: Colours

Do I have a favourite colour? I used to say BLUE... As I grow older, I realized that I dont really have a specific colour that I indulge in, rather, I prefer colour tone that comes in harmony in colour. I love the colour palettes! So many colour harmoniously blend together and giving you a different dimension, even it is white to grey then black!

I enjoyed the vibrant colour, there are so alive, filled with grace and hope. This is how I view colours. Others also mentioned that colours can be your tool to express your emotions! Even though I dont really think it is effective, besides the jinx of wearing a certain colour that will be luck XD.

I am still into colouring although I am long away from my primary school years! I couldnt imagine what can our life be if everything is monotonous, dull and colourless.

Literately, colours also symbolized what we did! I remembered that there is a quote or a metaphor stating that life started of as a piece of white paper/ newly born baby is as innocent as a piece of white paper (well, it depends of how good the manufacturer bleach it *joking*), and it all depends on us, who will be the one painting the white paper with colours that we desire. Thus, I dont single colour can content me any more, I want my life to be as multi colour as possible!

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#21 Appreciation: Inspiration

Inspiration, something that strikes you and stimulate your chain of thoughts to generate heaps of ideas. There is no need for fancy settings to get inspired. As long as you are in a calm state of mind where you ready to receive and accept what you are seeing, hearing and sensing. A simple walk, a quick glance, and even an empty mind can inspired you.

A quote from the role Mr Han (acted by Jackie Chan) in Karate Kid, "Kung Fu lives in everything we do". Same as inspiration. It will come naturally to you when you are literally ready to expose to new thing although it could be in part of your daily routine.

The greatness about inspiration is the motivation that urge you to be better, to achieve more, to be more enthusiastic on what we are doing, to push you off your limit, to understand your potential and lots more. It is like a hidden hand that made you move forward, finding the passion and the drive to do what you do. :)

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