Inspire people with your imperfection

"Let's inspire each other!" That's what I always tell to myself, and that's what I encourage people around me to do. I believe this world can be a better place if we can inspire each other.

Most people think the only people who can inspire others are people who are perfect, or at least well-experienced. They think it's job for motivators, leaders, or pastors. No. Everyone is an inspiration. That's one thing I believe for sure. Everyone makes mistake. Some people are good in one thing, but not in another thing. In fact, there's no one can be good in everything. That's why you can share what you have to others who don't, and in return, let others do the same for you.

When we inspire each other, life is much more interesting. I love to do this with my best friend. I and my best friend are two people with different backgrounds, different characters, and different stories of life. We love to sit in Starbucks and talk for hours just to share to each other. It's nice I can learn a lot from what he got in his life, and he learned a lot from mine.

You may be thinking like "I'm an imperfect person. I don't have something good to share to others. How can I inspire people?"

You don't need to be a pastor, a motivator, or a leader to inspire others. Let's inspire each other.

To be honest, I personally think that professional people like motivators are boring. It doesn't mean they're fake or not good in inspiring people. I still love to learn from them, but people like them are more likely to give advices and motivation about what we should do, but we can't directly see what they've experienced in their lives. In the end, it's not really inspiring for us because we think it's easy for their lives but not in our lives. It will be more inspiring to see it from what we see everyday, from people around us.

Well, just for sharing, I had a friend who lost her mom. I knew she's very close with her mom. She was still young, and her mom was even still younger than my mom. It must be very hard to face this in her young age, but I saw she tried to be strong, and she still smiled though her life was very challenging at that time. For me, that's much more inspiring than a pastor who can use most beautiful words to tell you to stop worrying about your problems.

One of my followers on Twitter once wrote to me, "Can I have your brain? You're really good in managing your life. Your life must be full of happiness." Maybe not. Ok, I'm grateful and happy with my life, but it's not always the case. I'm a person who is very easy to worry. Sometimes I worry too much. Once a problem comes into my life, it can drive me crazy. This is my imperfection. But, I learn from this. I reflect about my life. I reflect from my problems. That's why it turns into some quotes you read on my Twitter. If you read them, those quotes aren't about things I've already done in my life. They're what I learned from my life and what I reflected. If I don't worry too much, maybe I won't learn. And if I don't learn, I can't make some quotes and share what I've learned to people. So, I can say this is one of my ways to inspire people with my imperfection.

Last, I believe that God can use our weaknesses for something really good, and I believe that our weaknesses are actually the biggest assets we have that we can inspire to others. It's hard for people to get inspired from perfect people, but it's very easy to get inspired from imperfect people who can still be strong, never give up, and live their lives though problems keep coming. And the best thing is, you can be one of them.

So, be an inspiration. Let's inspire each other. Make this world a better place! :)

It's just your feeling!

You know what's real problem with this world? It's not from outside. It's from inside. A problem is not a problem until the inside of you makes it a problem. Some things like stress, worry, and anxiety. It's all from the inside. It comes from your feeling!

Do you ever feel like everything is not gonna be okay although nothing bad happens? Are you ever so afraid that bad things are gonna happen when everything is just okay? Or, sometimes there's only a very small problem but you take it as a big problem and it makes you stressed? If your answer is yes, sometimes I feel that way, too. However, after I think again about it, actually it's just a feeling.Your feeling makes every thing a problem. It is something inside you that always tries to affect your emotion, and in the end it makes you feel stressed or worry.

The truth is, feeling is something inside you that always tries to let you bother every single thing in your life, so everything looks complicated.

Don't you think it's very funny when your feeling always "plays" you? You can be happy, then sad, then suddenly happy again, and then suddenly sad again. It's natural. Everyone has feeling. But, you should not rely on it. Your feeling is not your boss. Don't let everything depend on it because it's not always right.

The thing is, feelings are soft. It's fragile. If you keep saying yes to your feeling, it's very easy to bring you down. It's true that feeling can make people happy too. Happiness is also a feeling. But, everyone has problems. Feeling is more likely to lead people to bad thoughts than the good ones. When there's nothing bad really happens, your feeling will try to tell you "What if tomorrow something bad happens?" And when there's only a small problem, your feeling will tell you "It's not small. You should not take it easy. It's gonna be worse if you don't do this or do that." I can say that your feeling always tries to "bully" you.

Sometimes everything is just okay, but your feeling makes it dramatic, then you become worry.

So, one thing you can do is to stop letting your feeling make your life a mess. Start to be relax in thinking and making decision. Use a right attitude to lead your act. It's not your circumstance or things around you that you should control. It's the inside of you, because a problem is not a problem until the inside of you takes it as a problem.

Don't let your feeling tell you that it's not okay when everything is just okay. Learn to control your feeling and not be controlled by it. It's you who should control your feeling, not your feeling who controls you.

My student life is over

Hey guys. It's really nice to be back here. Some of you asked me why I didn't update my blog for long time. Yeah, it's been about two months, the longest blogging break I had. You know, these last months I was super busy. I'm sorry I didn't have enough time to manage my blog. But today I'm so happy to come back here, and I hope you are still excited to read my blog. I have a lot of things to share. Well, during this long break, I get inspired by so many great stuffs, and I just can't help to share them all here.

Today, I'm not going to talk about inspirational stories or Disney. I just want to talk about my life. To be exact, my student life. Guess what? Yesterday was my last day for being a college student. Yesterday was the day for last exam of my last semester. Sometimes I can't believe I just did it. Well, maybe for you, I'm just overwhelming. But this is what I feel.

You know that feeling when you just start a journey, walk and make it step and by step, and suddenly you're at your destination. It's like "Hey, this is the place I was going to for a long time, and now I'm here. So, my journey is finished here."

Just to let you know, when I started being a student in Singapore, I didn't even have confidence that I would be able to be until the finish line. Even when I was transferring from Diploma to Degree, I did almost give up. That was the lowest point of my life. If you know me or follow my Twitter during that time, you surely know how miserable I was. But now I'm here. And it's all by His grace. It's not because I'm smart, and it's not because I'm able to do so, but because He always takes care of me. The thing is, if it's not God who brought me here, I guess I wouldn't be here right now.

You get the meaning of life not by what you achieve, but how you achieve it.

Now, what will I do then? Work? Continue to study? That's the most common question people ask to me. Hmm, so here is my answer. If you watch Rapunzel, you'll surely know what Rapunzel's biggest dream. She lived in a castle, never came out, and she was always wondering what it would be like to be outside and see the lights. And when she finally had a chance to reach her dream, she asked Flynn: "I've been looking out a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what it might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be? And what if it is? What do I do then?" And Flynn's answer was super inspiring: "That’s the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream."

Yup! A new dream. That's what I need. It's good to live by having a dream, and when you reach it, you get another chance to find another dream. Actually, that's the point of life. Without dream, life is empty. With dream, sometimes life becomes more difficult. But it's getting fun because that's the real adventure of life!

So, what's my new dream? For now, I don't really have a big plan. I just let God lead and guide my life. But one thing for sure, I really know where I'm going. Now, I'm just enjoying my life. And I'm gonna make the best of the rest of my life. Actually, this is the beginning of my real life: life with no examination, but greater challenges to ride.