Enter A Relationship

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." --Anthony Robbins

Acceptance

"If you can't accept me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best."

Interesting quote...

Socratic Teaching

This is a way to divert myself from being productive by writing an entry. I'm putting together an assignment for my history student and I came upon a write-up in regards to why should anyone study history. And the author led to discussing the one of the famous philosopher, Socrates. I'll let you read the paragraph that made me ponder myself:

For Socrates, perhaps the highest virtue can be summed up in the phrase, "Know thyself." In other words, of all the things in the phenomenal world, there is not one so important as yourself. To know yourself means to be aware of what it is that makes you who you are. And in this respect, the one thing which reveals this knowledge is history. But people do not live alone, they live in society. And it is in society that the individual comes into contact with other individuals, all of whom are on the same quest, in varying degrees. So, for Socrates, knowledge of self does not hinge upon reflection or introspection, but conversation, hence the Socratic dialogue.

In that thought, life is a on-going journey that we all take on alone or along with friends and family. We search meaning in what we do and with the people we have or had relationships with. Everyone will always ask the rhetorical question, what is my purpose in this life?

I'm always searching my purpose, my meaning in life and who I truly am...

Today @ 25

I finally hit the quarter of a century mark of my life!

I feel no different. Well, ok maybe I slightly feel more mature.

But I still feel like I'm a kid...at heart.

Much like this picture below...

In Limbo...

It has been a few weeks since I last updated. I got busy with my new part-time teaching gig. All I can say it has its ups and downs. But for the most part, I get to teach even though I'm always nervous that I'm not doing a good job. The feeling of being watched over by my associate teacher still lingers thanks to teacher's college. But this time I am on my own with a student. My own 'class' my own rules. I should just take it one day at a time and learn from this experience.

The month of November has been odd. Family and work has been frustrating. Love is none existent. Crushes are there which causes confusion as always. I only say that because of the consequences that could happen. Friends are wonderful and annoying. Haha...

What else...?

Oh, I'm turning 25 in 6 days.
Big changes have happened in my life but why do I still feel like I haven't made that much accomplishment?...