Friday – Day of firsts

Once again here is a list of activities for today. I had buffet lunch at Pu Tian, apparently it was some famous and well known place for Chinese food. It was my first time at that place, and I found the food to be tasty. The food itself was cheap food like tofu and some fish, but tasty nonetheless. I did some shopping alone today, got myself a X-Mini speakers and a webcam for my family so that they can see me when I am over in Bern. By the time everything was done up, I had to go for my evening event. Which was believe it or not, peranakan food at some dodgy restaurant along queen street, just like how I found Pui Tian to be serving tasty food, I also found that peranakan food can be quite tasty as well. After that was some errands to sort out before heading for the main event, Kumar’s stand up act at 3 monkeys. Which was really funny. I honestly had a fun time, it’s been a long time since some one else did the planning and booking and stuff like that.

So it has been a day of firsts for me. So at the end of the day I was thinking of… courage, the courage to try something new, the courage to first be lousy at something before becoming good instead of staying a non player all of one’s life.

I have been a pioneer in a few areas among my peers, in fact until this day I am still the only person in some of the fields. But I never let that bother me at all, I strongly believe that if you make your life choices in the same way, and considers the same factors as other people, odds are you will end up in the same place as other people. Normally, it wouldn’t be an issue except the fact that where most people end up at is a place I do not want to be in.

What we need is courage, to stand up against our friends and our fears. It is the easiest thing to give up, I would even be so bold as to say that we have a pre disposition to give up instead of trying harder or approaching the problem from a different direction.

We even need courage to stand up to ourselves, when the tiny voices in our heart tells us that we are not strong enough, or that we are not worthy of a certain type of life. As the catchphrase from Spiderman 3 so aptly put it, the greatest battle lies within, and it is there where the greatest amount of courage is needed.