Presence

Today's thought project is, as has been before, time.

I had mentioned that time is currency that can never be gained back. Reliving memories costs us the present, regardless of whether those memories are good or bad.

So I've been reading this book called Presence by Amy Cuddy. She gave this famous TED talk on body language and finally came out with a book.

While I'm only in the beginning of the book, when she was talking about having presence, I couldn't help but to also think about being present (i.e. being in the moment). I kept thinking of how people are often engaged or disengaged with the world and how this changes the person we become.

I was also thinking of what I was talking to my friend about earlier today too. Even as we strive to be better people and we're aiming to become a certain way, we mustn't forget to accept ourselves as we are now and that who we are now is still someone that we should not be ashamed of.

I suppose what I mean is that in trying to become a better person or to strive for a "better you" (sounds like a bad Dove advertisement), one should not reject who they are now. Even if we want to become better, we still are who we are at the present and that "who we are right now" is still someone we should embrace.

Time is still not my friend and my mind still doesn't cooperate with me. However, perhaps I am trying too hard to follow a mold that I do not fit into and I need to make things work for me, in my way.