Week 49/52

I like this week numbering system for titles. I don’t get stuck at the first line anymore. I don’t put aside scribbling (lol, I can’t term these posts as ‘writing’) anymore. The activation energy required to hit publish is as low as it can be. I just wish I’d write more about admirable people or pressing world issues and less about the trivialities of my everyday life. But I haven’t studied the world or other people in depth. Whatever I know comes from the two newspapers that arrive at our doorstep everyday. Anything I write about the world would be borrowed words. Hopefully I’ll get better at it with time.

I’ve been reading to procrastinate. I’ve been reading ‘Ikigai’ and ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’. Both books tell me to stop acting busy and to stop avoiding important tasks. I keep reading, not stopping. Stopping means thinking. I don’t wanna think.

I wonder where my brother will join for college. I wonder whether he’ll be somewhere near so that I could meet him once in a while. I remind myself that I haven’t met my cousins in the past three months. They live a whole of 10 minutes away.

Stuff on my mind:

(i) The idea of sharing half the prize money with other finalists of the Global Teacher Prize 2020 took me aback the first time I heard it, but it’s so utterly natural now that I think of it. It can’t be any other way. Ranjit Disale is the best.

(ii) I’ve finally blocked YouTube on my mobile. I know, I know, true victory is when I learn to limit my usage myself, but hey, I could use some training wheels.

(iii) Paul Graham has mentioned James Clear as one of his favourite authors in an article I read this weekend. I’m jealous. BTW James’ blog is binge-worthy, just that my ego won’t let me admit it. Ideas like activation energy for habits probably stuck with me from stuff I read on his blog while at college.

(iv) Three major events coming up for me this December, butterflies in my stomach.