Thursday, August 23, 2007
had a short conversation with mr lee along with jingxia and abigail. mr lee's words were so powerful that it just sank into my head. so from now onwards, i MUST NOT be afraid of any badminton player that is better than me. i'll just get into the court with confidence and being optimistic at all time. i doubt mr lee's going to read this, but thanks for the encouraging words mr lee! (:

anyway, i got this off from joyce's blog. read it, you'll most probably feel motivated in some way or another. or you'll feel nothing at all. heh.

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

-Grey's Anatomy