a realization about me...

Earlier today, I had this discussion with James at the office pantry... and in the course of this discussion, he asks two of my closest friends in the office, Cizzy and Wosh, "How do you get Shaina to do something"

And after thinking for a while, Wosh said, "Tell her she can't do it." James drove his point hard.

I was a little expecting that... I mean when he popped that question, I did ask myself... onga noh, how does someone make me do anything? And yeh, I agree with the answer, even if it sound, i don't know, a little too obsessive to me.

I don't know where I picked this up from, but back when I was in college, I had this thought stuck to my head: "Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do." I mean, until now, with my nephew, everytime I try to teach him something and he goes "Di ko kaya!", I tell him, "Don't say that. Don't decide that you can't do something if you haven't even tried it yet. Now, if you've tried your hardest and you were not able to do it, that's the only time you can tell yourself that you cannot do it. And even then, you should think of a different way, a different approach to the problem."

I don't know if I'm just overly-optimistic or I just never really back down from anything... but I've always believed that people have the uncanny ability to push their limits everytime they try. I just refuse to believe that I can't do something point-blank. Maybe after a hundred trys... lol.

It's just, i don't know... a total waste... to put a cap on what one can do. I mean, that;s half-selfish. You limit your abilities... that's just a waste of an entire human being. There are a gazillion things that one can achieve if one just sets their mind to it.

Well, maybe it's just me... and i'm still the weird kid :-)

But really, tell me that I can't do something gets me to do it? Reverse psychology i guess... but hhmm, i wanna test it if it works. lol. :-D