Sunday, November 28, 2010

I'm-pressed

One random thought popped out when I was about to turn off my laptop and try to sleep:

Are you doing things in life for the sake of making yourself happy
or
Are you doing those things merely to impress people?

- When I was 12 years old, I studied math so goddamn hard to impress the boy I had a crush on. He was so good in math and I wanted to steal his attention. I stopped studying math as soon as the puppy love's gone.
- When I was 14, I wanted to join a story telling competition and my English teacher underestimated me. She questioned my English and public speaking capability and I disproved her assumptions. I won the first place and was sent to the final round delegating Jakarta Selatan. She was impressed and I was also impressed with myself for proving her wrong.
- I dressed up for some fashion events just to impress people and to boost up my confidence. For your own records, I am pretty much a shy, low-esteemed girl who's scared of crowded places. Dressing up is the only way to make me feel better.
- and many other evidences that I did things in my life just to impress others. Sad thing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very nicce!

Stella Pacis said...

how if.. impressing people is the way you make yourself happy?

Just like when you finally proved that your English teacher was wrong, didn't it feel great and make yourself happy?

Well, if it's not... then there might be a question mark why you did that.
But if you were happy, I guess, there's no problem with it.
*imho* :)