1000 Awesome Things

Today YoneT suggested I watch a TED talk that she usually shows her students. After i watched it I was moved by the message of the speaker. His main message was not to take the little things in life for granted. For example, many people yearn for acceptance, money, fame, etc. but when do you think the last time they took a look up at the sky, took a deep breath and looked at the passing clouds? My guess, not for a long time. When was the last time you looked up at the clouds and just appreciated being in the moment? The little things in life are the ones we take for granted. Here is his TED talk along with his blog. It will shed a new light on the way you perceive things I think. It did for me at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDbxcvmsHk

http://1000awesomethings.com

xoxox,e

#1 looking out the window at the blue sky, hearing the birds chirp and the airplanes fly by. 02.20

Embarrassing Story

So since moving here, there have been a fair share of embarrassing things that have happened to me. Today, was another day something had happened. So here we go… yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I got some sweets from students, in particular I got sweets in two small paper bags. thanks kanoha btw. One of them had a chocolate cake like thing and in the other was a chocolate marshmallow type thing. Of course I ate one, but as I have been eating like shit lately, I decided to save the other one for today…Well when I was leaving work, a bit later than usual, I saw a student studying so diligently. I have seen him studying in the same place for awhile now, so I felt kind of bad for him. I also thought to myself that I really didn’t need to be eating MORE sweets so I thought I would be nice and share with him. When I passed by him, I reached into my purse to give him one of the bags. I obviously chose the heavier one because I thought the cake was in that one. Gave it to him, and started going home. As I was driving home, I opened the other bag to throw away a piece of garbage and to my freaking surprise, THE CAKE WAS INSIDE. At that point I was thinking ;sajflsjflksdjfsdfhfk. So I hurried and drove back to school to see if I could catch the student to switch bags with him, because if I didn’t he would open the bag I gave him only to see bits of garbage that I had put in there throughout the day. BUT I COULDN’T FIND HIM! So, long story short, I gave one of my students, who i’m not even allowed to give sweets to, a bag of garbage. fml he must think im a weirdo now.

xoxo,e