Today is friday and now I’m wrapping up the week. I had a good week. Although it was pretty slow at work. Driving home I had an insight that I could ask any other of my team members if they needed help or support with any projects they were working on. I’ll definitely be asking that for next week.
Got back into making my mindful minute videos. I want to be really careful that It’s just a reflection of what I learned and not trying to preach to other people. It’s definitely a discipline to keep up the videos and to keep doing them. It’s a practice and I have to keep it up. I’ll try to write in topics that stick out to me during the day. On that note keeping a ntoebook with me is huge and I find it really valuable. However I don;t write any reflections during the day if I don’t have it around with me. Earlier this week when I had my notebook with me on Thursday I believe. I was able to write down my insights and things that stuck out to me in my mind. Where as when I dont have my ntoebook around I’m more inclined to keep everything in my head. That’s one thing that I’m trying to work on as well. I tend to get caught up in my head a lot and my meditation and my awareness has really helped a lot with that (Thank you Vipassana) . I found myself this week not doing very much of the meditation as I had liked due to my schedule and letting other things eat into it. I really didn’t like doing that as it’s something that I keep really dear to me and I don’t want to give that up because I didn’t want to leave early. So moving ahead in the future I will be more strict on letting other things get in the way of my daily practice.
Today I also visited a good friend of mine and we caught up a little bit. He’s going through a lot and has lots of stress on him . All I could provide was an ear to listen and give my compassion to him. He uses humor as a mask , I can tell . He worries about his dad and his family is not stable. His brother as abandoned him and he struggles at work. All I want to do is tell him its okay and things will get better. He needs it. At the same time though that won’t fix anything. I don’t know what it is about me sometimes. I know what the issue is with him but I just don’t have the heart to say it . Is it my place to tell him how to live his life? No. In a way I feel like he knows what it is deep down but he just hasn’t admitted it to himself yet. Even while talking to him I thought to myself for a bit , what is this meant to teach me here? He just needs a friend, a true friend. He’s like a brother to me. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without him. He treats me like family. And if I’ve learned anything from life is that keep those close to you that treat you like family . They are the ones that really care. And by family I don’t mean they are blood related or live with you. I mean the people that will back you up and are there for you 100%. The people that you chose to be your family.
Stay Humble , Stay Blessed.