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This Time Is Mine

Summary - A little selfish wont hurt..

Today's the last day of my medical leave. Unfortunately, there's some sign that my eye is better. Again.. unfortunately. Nevertheless it's still a good thing that I was given the leave. Now why do I say it's good? Here's why..

I can actually spend time to do other thing. like finishing up the Harry Potter book, resting, and doing some little projects. I wonder why I cannot do this during my day off every week. I guess when it's your day off, you just want to rest. No more working.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why we are so frustrated with work. We work and we work every single day, and when it comes to our day off, we just spend it resting (with the intention to gather strength for another series of work the next week). Some spend it by doing chores that cannot be done on weekdays. This chores are usually not that fun, like doing laundry, cleaning the house etc. It's like work... without the paycheck. No wonder we are stressed out, we are working every single second of our life.

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Seriously I realize this yesterday, that we really need to take some time for ourselves. Allocate some time to do what we want to do. For example, me with reading the book. or surf the web... not to find material for your blog, but just because you want to.

Can I ask you, at this moment... what do you want to do for yourself? Something that you like to do, without having no other benefit except your satisfaction.

I try to come up with some things that we can do just for our own pleasure. Maybe you can add more to it?
- watch sunrise (at least once a week)
- take leave from work and go see a movie of your choice alone
- play music and do nothing but listen
- buy a watercolor and draw an abstract drawing
- make a robot from bottles and wires

Conclusion - What we do every single day almost always for someone else, or for getting some benefit from it like paycheck, recognition etc. we never spend time for ourselves. It's true we must not be selfish, but our own time, our own activity is very important for us to realize that we really living a life.

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--------------Personal Note-------------
After finishing Harry Potter, I'm going to find if there is any Silat training here at my place. Anything will do.. I really love practising Silat, not that I am any good :)

Just simply love the art

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