Hello,
You are reading the post from “Things I Noticed” on my site.
I had three reasons to start/write these -
To be more aware of what I am consuming.
To structure and slowly improve my writing.
To share and document what stays with me.
Here are few things from my past week that caught my attention -
I noticed - The Lone Penguin
This viral inspirational sensation of a lone penguin leaving the colony and walking to the distant mountains.
Why? is the question I had in mind and when I saw the feed of the penguin walk while the director tells that even though the researcher brings him back to the colony, he immediately walks towards the mountains again for an entire day.
The internet had different renditions of the reason and I could only imagine a story of lost lover calling him towards the mountains.
On the documentary’s comments lies a beautiful rendition of why the penguin was walking towards the mountains -“I have no wings, so I can’t fly. I’ll climb the mountains, so I may touch the sky.”
But it is fascinating to see the penguin recorded in 2007 shown to the world in 2008, is now viral on the internet.
This goes to show personal stories, unique observations, and honest questions never go out of style and will be picked up to fame at some point or the other and you just have to trust and do to do the right thing and not worry about any other aspect.Movies I Watched - Marty Supreme, Monster
A Question I pondered - Why are we embarrased to fail?
Maybe it’s because of our childhood and how we were raised or maybe we don’t want to see ourselves be questioned, judged, or even laughed at.
I am trying so hard to get out of my comfort zone, I want to say to people freely what I think without having any intent behind it, but scared to do so.
I will have to learn how, but this feeling of embarrassment when we fail is something interesting? It makes us try harder next time or not touch it for the rest of our life. There is no inbetween. But what if there is?
I remember, there were a lot of good moments from my past that I let go or did not perform well knowing that I would fail and embarrass myself.
If only I would have fought that feeling and did it anyway.
I cannot change the past now, but I can take tiny actions now to change from now on.An Act I Noticed - Do babies instinctively know that something is dangerous.
I never saw a baby being happy in an elevator. Similar to one I noticed this past week. The baby boy was visibly smiling when he was first seen while the door opened on a floor in between transite from fourth floor to ground floor. I noticed the baby looked around and saw the elevator door close.
His face turned pale, he looked up and then down on his father’s shoulder and let out a big cry. It was as if to say this is not new to me and what is happening I am scared. As soon as we reached the ground floor, his father who was saying it’s nothing and patting the babys back,rushed front and said, see we are okay and when the teary eyed baby saw the open space, the people not so packed in - he let out a smile and watched his dad and smile grew even bigger.Photograph I clicked -
Saturday night dinner (Home-made chicken burger, with fries and diet coke) [Burger made by my brother]
