How worthy are you?
How worthy are you? Have you ever asked yourself that? If you did, what was your answer?
The truth is in our asia culture we are always asked to 'look down' ourself for we have to be humble. And the problem about this whole issue is we tend to over-practise it. Fake it and you believe it!
My answer to the above question has always been 'not very worthy' or rather 'not worthy' and I always believe it is cos of my 'chinese thinking' but as I was talking to a few of my galfriends these days I realised it's not. They are all pretty 'ang mo' but yet they really really don't take pride in themselves ( at least I leave myself dinity).
And I discovered the answer to all our problems. And the answer lies in the question 'How worthy are you (to yourself)'? Will you love yourself if you lose your job? Flunked your exams? Can you still love yourself when your beloved boyfriend decided to walk out of your lousy life? Can you embraced yourself when you are fat and ugly? The list can go on but the bottomline is who are you (to yourself)? Are you your job, your exam, your boyfriend, your life, your body, your face? Admit it! You are all of the above and losing any one of them marks you a loser. But is this for real? Will losing your job be equivalent to losing yourself? Or your lousy boyfriend ( my principle -- a guy who can't appreciate me loses a gold mine...)?
This is also a new concept to me. But I am constantly trying to remind myself to grasp it. I am not my job, my boyfriend nor my body. And as long as I do not let myself down, I fight on. Losing any of the above might mean gaining better grounds. So fight on and ask yourself 'Who are you?'.
The truth is in our asia culture we are always asked to 'look down' ourself for we have to be humble. And the problem about this whole issue is we tend to over-practise it. Fake it and you believe it!
My answer to the above question has always been 'not very worthy' or rather 'not worthy' and I always believe it is cos of my 'chinese thinking' but as I was talking to a few of my galfriends these days I realised it's not. They are all pretty 'ang mo' but yet they really really don't take pride in themselves ( at least I leave myself dinity).
And I discovered the answer to all our problems. And the answer lies in the question 'How worthy are you (to yourself)'? Will you love yourself if you lose your job? Flunked your exams? Can you still love yourself when your beloved boyfriend decided to walk out of your lousy life? Can you embraced yourself when you are fat and ugly? The list can go on but the bottomline is who are you (to yourself)? Are you your job, your exam, your boyfriend, your life, your body, your face? Admit it! You are all of the above and losing any one of them marks you a loser. But is this for real? Will losing your job be equivalent to losing yourself? Or your lousy boyfriend ( my principle -- a guy who can't appreciate me loses a gold mine...)?
This is also a new concept to me. But I am constantly trying to remind myself to grasp it. I am not my job, my boyfriend nor my body. And as long as I do not let myself down, I fight on. Losing any of the above might mean gaining better grounds. So fight on and ask yourself 'Who are you?'.
posted by Count your Blessings at 10:06 AM
1 Comments:
cool.
when i get back, i'll show you a scene from Will and Grace.
When Grace said that her mother is lucky to find her father, her mother said
No. it's because I am terrific!
Dawn, you are terrific too!
Time to demand for the best
:)
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