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19
disconnected dots
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | September 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s been awhile since I wrote anything meaningful here. I find less reason to, now. I think I prefer to keep it to myself.
I also draw a blank when it comes to writing a new post. At the same time, I’ve been jotting more things down in my handy diary.
People ask me, what do you write in your diary? I think to myself, everything from quotes I like to books I’ve read to to-do lists which I love to self- affirmation statements, and smile and say, oh the usual.
I am more confident now, since I arrived back in Vancouver. I am more calm. I find myself stepping back and just being an observer, more and more. It’s made my piano playing more controlled. Perhaps I know more what it is that I am doing with my life. Or maybe I am just content with who I am. I know I have more faith in the approach I am taking to life.
I miss travelling. The conversations with strangers that either reaffirm who I thought I was or challenge who I always thought I was. I’ve become more like myself– I predicted I would, before I left. I think that in the midst of challenges, life experiences, and the stress of travelling alone, I could only hold onto the core of who I am… everything else I shed little by little in each community I visited.
I’m more ready to graduate than I thought I would be. Undergraduate studies is too broad and faceless for me. I want to do something more meaningful. I guess that’s the whole point of undergrad, anyway, to push you to figure yourself out. Some people already know– they don’t need the extra four years of school then I guess?
The city bothers me. But at the same time it’s my home, and so I love it. It’s a little like how family works, I think.
People also ask me how it is that I juggle everything I do at once. I like to say, I know I’d be so afraid of dropping any one of those things that I will push myself to my limits trying to juggle it. And I know that I will always push through; I always do.
There are some people I haven’t spoken to in such a long time, who have said important things to me when I needed it most. I doubt I will see them anytime in the near future. There are too many people around in my life. I’m thankful that there are two or three that have stuck by. In psychology we learn about how important community support is– It’s too bad that some people don’t realize this until it’s too late. Another note: I don’t try as hard (or even at all) to please other people anymore. What’s the point? I prefer to direct that energy to thinking about the people who need help in this world, wondering how it is that I can make myself one of those leaders who can make a change significant enough for those voiceless, nameless, faceless people in our world.
Also, I am afraid of falling.
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You already have made a difference because I now know I am not alone in my fear of falling … or failing… or flailing… just for air… or to care… or whatever the challenge of life’s moments are. My instincts tell me that one with your wisdom will journey far in life and share much. Educational or not, who knows. But that will unfold as you go, just keep on. I do know what you mean about the city, I feel it, too. I think you should read the piece I posted today: “Born Sensitive,” you may find some nuggets there, I did in the piece I linked to in Psychology Today, just awesome research/information presented in easy to digest format. Here to catch you in any way I possibly can 🙂