Just a Thursday.

Rather than letting thoughts fray. I guess it'll be better to channel it perspectively.

There are some paragraphs that I've extracted from this book, The Art of Being while reading it today.

How to be perfectly imperfect.
Perfectionism is something that consumes an incredible amout of energy. Many perfectionists are not really aware of how much this obsession runs (and perhaps ruins) their life. We are so busy trying to make everything and everyone perfect (but mostly ourselves) that we lose touch with the moment at hand. Perfectionism stems from a need to control.

This sorta springs up as a reminder to me today. Let me give a simple illustration of an event which happenned yesterday. My new shoes, the shoes you've saw on the previous post, were misplaced and I only got to discovered it before I went to gym. And this thing's been bugging me. From yesterday till this morning. Partly blaming myself that I hadn't been more careful. When when I become too obsessed and crtical of myself, I tend to be less aware of my surroundings and 'lose touch with the moment in hand'. I may overlook more important stuffs and even people around me. It happens to me, and I'm trying to be more forgiving of my ownself. The book says. God is perfect, right now, just the way it is, in you and as you. So it's not that we have something we need to cover up, but rather that we have something to reveal to the world.

Henry David Thoreau wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. The song of which Thoreau is speaking is the unexpressed self, God's creative essence looking out for an outlet. It requires courage to sing our song. In my opinion, the courage to express. I can be pretty true to myself. But sometimes my thoughts can consume and confuse me. That courage will indeed take us to the very edge of our comfort zone, that dark place called fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure and perhaps even fear of success.

Beyong a certain point, there can be no more growth on the comfort of your nest, and if you want to be a hawk and soar with the wind, you have to take the risk, come to the edge and push off.

And on the 96th way to practice purpose in your life, there presents a quote, in small print by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It says 'I hate quotations'. Lol. I had a good laugh.Laughing cause I thought this may be in line with what I thought. I once shared with a friend that I thought quotes weren't for me because it's cliched. One point. Another, one own's life is self-discovery. It will be so ever confusing to you if you decided to take other people's quote and live it as your own.

And here from the book. 'Imitation is suicide' Now it makes it pretty clear, doesn't it? The message he was asking us to embrace is, be your own person; think for yourself; be an original, an authentic thinker not a duplicate.

That's probably why, I like things original, creative, no fine print, minimal with no pretence. Sophistication? Yes, but I can't seem to produce it.