2022 Start up.
Date: January 4,2022
Author: SequoiaTime check, it's already 10:43 pm and I just woke up from a 2 hours of deep slumber. Well, it is purely intentional tho. My eyes and head badly hurt an hours ago and so I have decided to get some sleep first to ease the pain. Fortunately, the pain is alreay gone and it is time for me to grind and make an article for today, Yey!
I don't want to let this day pass without making an article for you all and atleast share my thoughts as well. Anyways, my cat is currently sleeping on my chest right at the moment and I am really careful not to wake her up.
I don't know in your area but here in our end, a lot of people is getting a fever, cold and cough. Majority of the people have it and its quite alarming. The medicines for the said health issues are slowly running out of stock.
This is just so disheartening to hear that the year started with this. Maybe it is also becaude of the cold and fast changing weather.
Even the kiddo that I am babysitting is experiencing from a cold and cough. Seeing her suffer from those things pinches my heart. If I could just only take it away from her immediately.
I don't want to get sick and so I always make sure to care for myself, drink a lot of water and eat foods with great vitamin C to strengthen my immune system. Health has become one of my priorities this year.
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Learning to say No
A while ago, I have received an invitation to be a guest speaker in a specific event. My world literally stops when I read their message and I can hear my heart beating so loudly. It took me several minutes before I was able to reply to their message. I think about it carefully and I come up with a No decision. Hesitant, but I managed to decline their invitation and I sighed in relief when they accepted my response wholeheartedly.
The thing is, those people who invited me are the one whom I admire and adore. Saying no to them is very hard and it took me a lot of courage. I just can't see myself talk in front of the other people while conveying messages about a certain topic that I am certainly not expert on. Before I turn the offer down, I tried to see it as a great opportunity to fight my fears, come out from my comfort zone and grow as a person.
That mindset stirs up my confidence and almost said yes. However, I remember that I still have a lot of things to do this month and that includes our thesis that basically needs my full and undivided attention. I am the type of person who isn't good in doing two things at the same time especially if the work requires a lot of thinking and realizations. I have to decide and so I choose to give up the offer. But that doesn't mean that I am already closing the door for that opportunity to grow.
I make sure to make myself available the next time they invite me again. As for now, I have to say no for me to be able to give my best of best to my priority task.
Saying no isn't a bad thing. We have all the right to say no to the things that make us uncomfortable. Be that as it may, it will still depend on the situation. Just make sure to be firm in your decisions and neve regret it at the end.
Thinking about it several times is the key.
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Its been years when I mastered the skill of saying no to anything. Dati kasi I feel obligated pag ininvited or hiningian ako ng favor ng isang tao. Kahit ayaw ko or di ko alam gagawin, nag o-oo ako. Tapos in the end ako din yung napapasama. Nung nag-start ako na mag no sa mga bagay bagay, marami tao ang umaalis pero walang problema sakin yon kasi yung mga natira, sila yung totoo.