I was talking to my friend Hsiu Fan from church. We'll we concluded that people shouldn't feel SO bad when they do something embarassing, because everybody does things that embarass themselves from time to time.
Hsiu fan, in an attempt to make me feel less stupid due to the fact that I'm very hard on myself, told me how the other day he was at the YMCA and mistook a girl working out for someone he had met before. He approached her and introduced himself and asked what her name was (OH MAN x/). He thought she was a girl he had met before. Turns out that after a few minutes of "floundering" he found out that he had mistaken this girl for someone else. He said that she was very confused.
Yes. So the moral of the story is that everyone does stupid stuff unintentionally. Aside from the story, I also found that working out and violin makes you happy. By the way, I didn't ask Hsiu fan if i could share his great story so shhhhhhhh. :)
Because i have time, i'm editing this post and writing more. I don't know why I'm so hard on myself. For example, people have said that I'm a great musician but I never believed them. At my college auditions and at my music lessons, I felt like I was a bad player even when I received positive comments. I honestly don't think I'm very good at music at all. I've only played one perfect performance in 13 years of playing. And I've practiced something perfectly only a handful of times. Maybe you think that's bragging, but view it in this light: my teacher requires every exercise he assigns to be played with only a single mistake at most in order to pass it. Think about it, there's so much to learn and so much ability that I will never achieve (see: heiftz, if i spelled it right). But I am proud at what I have already acheived. I just know that there is so much potential that I have not yet reached!
What do I find satisfaction in then? When I'm teaching and I experiance one of those "kids say the darndest things" moments. I love that!! and when I do something that makes others happy and brings smileeess to their faces!! What else? stay tuned. You don't often get such in depth journal entries!
*******be (10:40:10 PM): yo
Cl onetIm (10:40:14 PM): hey Friedrick*
*******be (10:40:17 PM): wanna go to a ***** ****?
Cl onetIm (10:40:23 PM): no not really
*named changed. I have the most interesting converstions with this guy.
Hsiu fan, in an attempt to make me feel less stupid due to the fact that I'm very hard on myself, told me how the other day he was at the YMCA and mistook a girl working out for someone he had met before. He approached her and introduced himself and asked what her name was (OH MAN x/). He thought she was a girl he had met before. Turns out that after a few minutes of "floundering" he found out that he had mistaken this girl for someone else. He said that she was very confused.
Yes. So the moral of the story is that everyone does stupid stuff unintentionally. Aside from the story, I also found that working out and violin makes you happy. By the way, I didn't ask Hsiu fan if i could share his great story so shhhhhhhh. :)
Because i have time, i'm editing this post and writing more. I don't know why I'm so hard on myself. For example, people have said that I'm a great musician but I never believed them. At my college auditions and at my music lessons, I felt like I was a bad player even when I received positive comments. I honestly don't think I'm very good at music at all. I've only played one perfect performance in 13 years of playing. And I've practiced something perfectly only a handful of times. Maybe you think that's bragging, but view it in this light: my teacher requires every exercise he assigns to be played with only a single mistake at most in order to pass it. Think about it, there's so much to learn and so much ability that I will never achieve (see: heiftz, if i spelled it right). But I am proud at what I have already acheived. I just know that there is so much potential that I have not yet reached!
What do I find satisfaction in then? When I'm teaching and I experiance one of those "kids say the darndest things" moments. I love that!! and when I do something that makes others happy and brings smileeess to their faces!! What else? stay tuned. You don't often get such in depth journal entries!
*******be (10:40:10 PM): yo
Cl onetIm (10:40:14 PM): hey Friedrick*
*******be (10:40:17 PM): wanna go to a ***** ****?
Cl onetIm (10:40:23 PM): no not really
*named changed. I have the most interesting converstions with this guy.
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