Dear all. Let me introduce myself. I am Alice, a half-shy, half-outgoing "little Asian-American girl" who is tired of fulfilling her stereotype her whole entire life of 21 years. Yes, my young little face fools people about my age as well as my ambition. With this deceit, I am also deceived by the way people treat me based on how I look, so I end up acting how I look because of the way I am treated. Or, to be more self-critical, I could simply just say that I am shy. But, I know that is not the case for me. Yes, I did grow up shy but I began to change because when I went to high school after leaving a Catholic school full of preps, I met real people who were really interesting and different and unique. People who weren't all the same just like at the Catholic school where we all had to also wear the same uniform and therefore, their behaviors were pretty uniform. Alright, that's too critical but looking back this is how I feel from my perspective.
Anyway, perhaps also due to the fact that I've been so sheltered in my childhood, I have become a person that lacks self-confidence in myself. I see each stage of my life, elementary school, high school, and college as step-ladders in my life toward higher self-confidence. Just today, I graduate Class of 2012, and now is the time to take my self-confidence to the ultimate level where I will stop at nothing to be happy. This blog will be a kind of documentation or story of my journey toward my pursuit of happiness.
I will create a program for myself for things I should do that comes from tips I read and advice from my peers. They will include things to do, things not to do, how I should think, and how I shouldn't think. I also will measure the impact of the program on me once a week by testing myself at how much less I hesitate to do something or how much more empowered I am to do what I believe in. I will include some positive and negative reminders of why I am pursuing this program toward self-confidence, but they should be concrete examples as vague ones are not as impacting on the mind and emotions. Along the journey (as this no means to an end, but a life-long process), I do want to bring myself to be as happy as I can be as we all should make the best of all situations that we are in rather than just whine and complain about it. Ultimately, I hope to inspire people just like me to have the courage to make themselves happy.
Anyway, perhaps also due to the fact that I've been so sheltered in my childhood, I have become a person that lacks self-confidence in myself. I see each stage of my life, elementary school, high school, and college as step-ladders in my life toward higher self-confidence. Just today, I graduate Class of 2012, and now is the time to take my self-confidence to the ultimate level where I will stop at nothing to be happy. This blog will be a kind of documentation or story of my journey toward my pursuit of happiness.
I will create a program for myself for things I should do that comes from tips I read and advice from my peers. They will include things to do, things not to do, how I should think, and how I shouldn't think. I also will measure the impact of the program on me once a week by testing myself at how much less I hesitate to do something or how much more empowered I am to do what I believe in. I will include some positive and negative reminders of why I am pursuing this program toward self-confidence, but they should be concrete examples as vague ones are not as impacting on the mind and emotions. Along the journey (as this no means to an end, but a life-long process), I do want to bring myself to be as happy as I can be as we all should make the best of all situations that we are in rather than just whine and complain about it. Ultimately, I hope to inspire people just like me to have the courage to make themselves happy.
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