A bucket full of inspiration
Monday, October 8, 2012 @ 8:33 PM | 1 Comments

I posted this on my personal blog, but I decided to post it on here as well. Mainly because it contained SNSD material, but also because I wanted our readers to deviate just a slight bit away from life itself, and take a moment to absorb everything in.

"Yesterday, I was watching a Japanese show that featured SNSD. It was all about their Japan debut as well as group interviews on various other things. There was a segment that caught my eye, and it was "life motto" Each individual member came up/ had a life motto, and at the end of it all, it inspired me to come up with my own life motto. Here, extracted from the video are their life mottos:

"Don't do things I'd regret" -Kim Taeyeon. 

She continued on saying that this was to avoid coming up with "what if" She wanted to live life the way she would without any regrets.

"Follow my heart" -Jessica Jung Soo Jung
This, she stated was so that she can continue to achieve her dreams in the future, without any worries of what other people might say.

"Live without regrets" -Im Yoon A
This is quite similar to Taeyeon's I must say.

"My best in every moment" -Lee Sunkyu
She further commented that she wanted to be her best at every moment possible, so that she won't have any regrets or having to hate herself later for not doing whatever it was that was to be done.

"The winner who finishes  is a person who has a good heart" -Seo Joo-Hyun
This is probably the one I don't get, even after she explained it. aiyah, why so complicated maknae?!

"Today is MY day"- Stephanie Hwang Mi Young
Initially, she had the motto "work my hardest at all times" because she thought that if she worked hard, results will be satisfying, and that way, she would be happy; but she later realised that sometimes when she's hardworking, she's never really happy, so she came up with this motto, that everyday, it would be her day, she's not going to let anyone ruin it, because it is after all, HER day. Not anyone elses.

"What would Jesus do?"-  Choi Sooyoung/ Summer
The motto speaks for itself really, if ever in a situation where she doesn't know what to do, or is stuck in, she'll think about what would Jesus do to get her through it.

"The place where i am standing will become a flower in an unchanging land and I will be a person that as clean as the stream water, and be diligent, sincere, and honest" - Kim Hyoyeon
Again, speaks for itself.

"A genius cannot win over one who puts in effort, and one who puts in effort cannot win over one who enjoys himself" -Kwon Yuri
 Lastly, my favourite one from Yuri. In short, hard work beats any one with a genius brain; and you can never excel if you don't enjoy yourself. Whether you're put in a situation where it's not exactly the best it could be, find the good aspects of it, and think positively. If not, make it enjoyable.

After watching the video, I had a bucket full of inspiration, and I was determined all of a sudden. After playing bball on friday, I was always thinking, " if i died on saturday, I wouldn't have any regrets" I don't know why, but I was just so truly happy after friday. And it wasn't because we scored a lot, but just the fact that I took chances, and wasn't afraid of the outcome. It was the first time I did that, not caring a single bit, and I wondered would life be a whole lot more interesting if I had done that before?

Which leads me to the life motto I came up with a couple of hours ago,

"Live today the way you would if tomorrow was your last"
 Self explanatory no? Dying without regrets. Basically, #YOLO. It covers all aspects, from achieving your dreams or taking that little step closer to that dream, to spending enough time with your loved ones, rather than spending your time on the computer. Ask yourself this, if you were to die tomorrow, would you have been satisfied knowing that you spent your last day on youtube, facebook and twitter rather than with your family? I'm not saying that you shouldn't spend time on the computer at all, but spending vast amounts of your day on it, isn't beneficial. No one knows when they're going to die. Death is unpredictable, as is everything else in life that decides to throw at you.

Having said that, I truly hope I don't die tomorrow."

 Here's also to our 100th post!

-Naz

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1 Comments:

Dear Zi Ling,
    October 19, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Am I the first to comment? Hah! Read your motto, Steve Jobs had a similar thing going on, not sure if you've read it but check out his speech at Stanford University http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

-Nurlin-

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