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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Used to the old way of doing things

    The body and mind resist new things automatically. You can even feel your mind protest about turning away from the old way of doing things, which is familiar and comfortable. In most cases, stepping into the new and unfamiliar gives you unease. Starting something new makes you feel uncomfortable. And we don’t like to feel Read more

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  • Meeting new people in class

    There’s always this fear of rejection that nags at you if you don’t intend to socialize, keeping you from interacting with the people in the same room you’re in unless there’s an ice breaker moderated by the person all of you are connected with(the instructor). This shared relationship allows the invisible walls to slowly go down, Read more

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  • Previous accolades

    complacency (noun) a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder Cambridge Dictionary Your achievements often trick you into becoming complacent or being in a state of complacency. Where you bask in the glory of what you’ve attained, the gleaming accolades from your past, and stop there. “I’m too old for new learning” or “I’m old enough to know many things.” In Read more

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  • Listening to book summaries

    Books brought me to places I never imagined I could without leaving home (or wherever I am). Books opened my mind to what’s possible. My earliest memory of books is second-hand ones our neighbors eagerly discard during their cleanup. Together with my sister, we happily choose the ones we like, and for me, they are Read more

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  • Looking for a media-sharing social network

    So many things are running in my mind right now, overwhelming my thoughts. It seems that the immediate relief to this situation is to type without regard. I could have written more about work in this post, but today isn’t the day to do that. The current dilemma: what media-sharing platform can I use to upload photos Read more

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  • “Lining Up Emotions in the Right Ways” chart

    Have you been angered by a message you received or a news you’ve watched? How did you respond? Sure, how our emotions are evoked matters and often dictates how we respond (especially when we are quick to react and not think our actions through, like a frog 🐸 leaping immediately from a perceived threat). From Read more

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  • Has it been a day already?

    Today, I have put into practice what I wrote in my previous blog. How? I did seven major tasks for today, with reading a book sometime in the afternoon, and they are as follows: And it’s incredible how I did all these things in one day, while I can spend the same hours working in front Read more

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