Shut up and take my money!
This is basically what my 3 year old nephew told my sister when she came back from Taiwan with some cool looking magnets. Little Mateo was so amazed by how the magnets moved as if by magic that he retreated to his room, went back to my sister's room, placed his piggy bank on her table and said, "Tita, please put magnets in my room!"
Mateo has never seen that meme nor will he understand even if he's seen it but the underlying principle of this meme is this: I see something I want and I'll do anything to get it. There was no fear in not knowing if his money wouldn't be enough. No fear that all the money he accumulated would be gone if my sister had accepted. No fear that he'd just be laughed at coz his gesture was just too cute. Mateo had no fear. He saw something he liked and he went for it the best way he knew how.
This really got me to think about how I usually treat things that I like in my own life. I'm not the go getter kind of guy. I rarely grab opportunities when they present themselves to me. Truth be told, this is the third blog I've started. First two were just forgotten. It was the fear in me that prevented me from posting whatever the hell I wanted to. "Maybe I won't get readers", "Maybe they'll judge me for saying this", "What if they disagree with me?". Fear is a powerful thing and overcoming it requires a lot of strength.
Last night, me and my best friend had dinner and one of things we talked about was seeing this really old lady - probably a mom or aunt - dancing on the elevated platform at Liv over the weekend. She got a lot of stares and even some of our friends made fun of her coz "she doesn't belong here." I admit that I did think that at first but when I looked at the scene again, she wasn't harming anyone, she was smiling. She had no care in the world. She was probably so overcome with happiness that that night she was able to go clubbing with her daughter and maybe even more happy that her daughter brought her clubbing. Again, no fear of being judged, of being ridiculed, or of looking out of place. She saw what she wanted and she went for it.
This is what my blog will be about. Just my personal journal and my outlet for writing - I haven't written in ages. No more fear of people judging what I write, or people judging how I write. I will not fear people pointing out typos in my entries - I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of those as I'm not a very good typist. I see something I want, which is to start a blog, and I'm going in. So just shut up and take my money.
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