It's your girl Ngoc with episode 15. Yay. First off, thank god it's not another sucky podcast, but I'll do podcasts when there's really something special, something I need to put voice and emotion in to be really worth the 8 to 10 minutes you're taking out of your day. Get me? Good. :)
Okay. Well, you know how a blog comes and goes. Here goes.
Today we’re going to give a (semi-short) look into the art of taste testing your fears and
why you should get into it too.
So let me tell you. About a week ago, under a hot Houston
summer noon, my Dad told me, “I’m going to need you to chop these branches up
(with this moving blade machine thing that was just a loud reckoning and as a coward, I would never have even looked twice at or considered using).”
And it was after the physical act of using this scary machine on my own, with
all ten fingers and two palms over and over again for half an hour that I
realized, “I can now chop all of these freaking branches unfazed. Thank the gods.”
It’s crazy but once you’re pushed into a scary situation that makes you think ‘a’
“I don’t want to do this” and ‘b’ that “I can’t do this because it’s just too
crazy,” it is no longer crazy after
you’ve done it and you’re still alive unharmed. Because there was one thing I
knew for sure; if my Dad could do it so easily with his gout and aching back,
why can’t I? The only difference between me and him right now is experience. He’s
clearly been doing it more often than I, but after 30 minutes of doing it on my
own with some advice on his part, I did it amid my equally crazy thoughts. I
did it for sooo long that it wasn’t crazy anymore, until fear was the last
thing on my mind, until my body knew what was happening when I didn’t and my
mind kind of loved it.
What’s the theme here then? You've never tried the things that have been self-labeled as borderline scary and crazy because fear held you back. Guess what? I'm here to tell otherwise. I'm here to tell you that you sooo can. It’s nothing you can’t handle. If someone else can do it, there’s no excuse you can’t either. And it’s with
this mindset that will set apart the past you from the future you, from
others who haven’t learned to taste new things. Set yourself apart from your own fears. Try them. Taste them. These
things you’ve never done before, at least experience it for yourself if you’ll
like it or not and prove to yourself that you can. If you find you don’t, then back out. At least you know now,
am I right? No regrets. But if you find you do, run straight into it. No regrets. Never regrets.
While it’s a fact that you’ve never chopped branches with a
fearsome machine, it’s not yet a fact that you can’t.
Do it.
Try it.
Hate it.
Love it.
Know that you can.
The Best Thing That Happened to You,
Ngoc
P.S. It's really been three episodes in the past 2 months of summer which I actually thought I'd be really productive in. Too bad. But I promised myself 100 episodes before I die. I can't die before then. We're... 1/7 there. Let's do this. (No I'm not suicidal. Don't worry ye cheeky ones.)
