Our thoughts are powerful (de)motivators.

Potential and capacity mean nothing once the individual has deemed things futile.

Oh, the irony

The SCB prepared the "junior teacher" activity to celebrate World Teachers' Day. Why, then, do I feel alienated because of it?

I saw how ecstatic my students got when I told them that the lower grades teachers specifically chose them to be instructors for a day. Nakakahiya naman dun sa pinili ko, na kulang na lang sabihing "bakit ako pa?" It seems I offended the student for thinking we share something in common.

I don't want to burden anybody. Wag pilitin ang ayaw.

PS
This is not a complaint. Hah!

Can't Complain

So I attended this concert a while ago. BEST DECISION EVER~

I fell in love with the song almost instantly.

Cause I know that pleasure's gotta come with pain
And I know that things won't always go my way
And I know that life is gonna suck some days
But I can't complain
I can't complain
Every day's too short to let it go to waste
Now I can't complain I can't complain
You gotta treat every day like a holiday
And I'm telling you
That I know some days I'm gonna stumble
And I know the cookie's gonna crumble
And I know that life is gonna suck some days
But I can't complain

How do we replenish our supplies? If only we could file a recquisition form for love. 

Argument and Critical Thinking

I had been questioning the point of what I'm doing here (on Earth, yes) since Thursday. If I were to be honest, I'd say I have nothing to look forward to. I know that sounds ungrateful, but that's how I had been feeling these days. And I somewhat doubt any explanation would make people who haven't experienced this sense of helplessness understand. Heck, even my body was starting to give up. (My body is sensitive to stress; if I don't get to release negative emotions, I get feverish or have an upset stomach). I was fatigued last Thursday and Friday; I had an upset stomach Saturday morning.

But enough of that. This post wasn't meant to be a complaint. I just had to get that out there. I used the past perfect progressive for a reason.

So I spent my weekend making exams, reading assigned novels, and checking essays. That last activity made my mood turn a hundred and forty degrees. Why that number? Because my current mood isn't exactly the polar opposite of the previous one, but it's getting there.

My being a sucker for well-written and well-thought out essays is the chauffeur causing this u-turn. Whose mood wouldn't change once he/she reads things like these?

Being able to question one's own beliefs is harder to do than to question other people's. Because we don't know exactly what foundations lie under someone else's beliefs, it is easier to not be as accepting of their thoughts as we are of our own. We accept our own and trust ourselves more easily because our ideas have always been there, in our minds, and we don't feel the need to question their basis. To become better critical thinkers and problem solvers, we need to be able to view ourselves through other's eyes and to question ourselves the way we would another person.

The problem is that I am harsh on myself, so that sometimes translates to other people without my meaning to. :/

And this:

In my opinion, i am a critical thinker who just started to be. Although being a critical thinker is one of the hard tasks, Lao Tzu said, "A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step." Now I dare to take my first step to be a critical thinker to a journey even people who are smarter than me gave up. I believe one step would make a big difference to accomplish the goal, being a matured critical thinker, because I always believed the courage to take first step already accomplish the half of my task (from Korea). Therefore, I believe I would be able to achieve it without any questions to my dream.

I'm pretty sure they could do well even without my help, though.