During those past weeks leading up to my super busy week last month(had to do 3 presentations), I remembered talking about my stress, my worries, my inadequacies etc to my friends at church and to the mothers that I know well at Calvin’s class. They were all very understanding and sympathetic towards me. Was I looking for sympathy? No, not really. I just wanted to talk! I am a woman, you see. 🙂 Anyway, I just wanted to share that I found great encouragement in talking to my friends who supported me the whole time, in particular, the words of 2 particular friends stuck in my mind till now.
The first friend said:”Well, you must have done enough work in order to be asked to do a presentation. It is a good sign”. She works in a scientific research field and so she understood exactly what I was going through. The second friend said:”wow, you must feel very useful to be asked to do so many presentations!”. She is a stay-at-home mum. Somehow these words just stuck in my head. I find it interesting how other people can see the positive things out of my situation while I can only see the the negative. Honestly, at that time, all I could think of was complaining! That attitude has to change, I think. I am thankful to my friends for helping me to think positive and outside my own square. I needed that. Thanks ladies!
Still on thinking outside the square, I was viewing my 5.5-year-old school portfolio end of last term when I spotted a very interesting “concept”. The teacher had printed a list of different shapes on a page for the kids to identify. When the shape was a hexagon, Calvin identified it as “a pointy circle”. And, when the shape was semi-circle, the boy said it was a “moon”. 🙂 One can easily guess why, I think. I have to say I was concerned he did not know the name of the shapes, but the father thought the boy was not entirely wrong! You be the judge. 🙂