Outside the Box
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE FROM A DIFFERENT FACET
Another story ... on the other side of the box ...
Greetings:
Friends share each day’s stories, laughter, happiness, sadness, whatever and everything with each other – so I’m happy to share my story with you. From telling my story, I’m learning too. Too many people don’t realise – when you share, you’re learning as well. It’s not just talking – or rambling. I do seem to rant on interminably quite often, but I’m learning through the process.
Outside the box – this is where I’ll share my story, as it doesn’t really belong in any box. This is also my own little Inspiration Box that I’m glad to share.
Take inspiration here and there. You can always learn something new – that’s why we learn history and read autobiographies – we learn from each other. I’m learning something new about various things each day – including people I’m around. I’m the one that goes around pulling out inspiration from nearly everything possible and seemingly impossible. No, the word “impossible” doesn’t have much meaning in my dictionary. I’m driven by imagination and am a nature-loving dreamer – it’s strewn all over the place, too.
Here’s a place to explore beyond the boxes’ boundaries and edges. Sometimes, you can’t truly be free and unleash your dashing imagination unless you think “out the box.”
- Mikka
Friends share each day’s stories, laughter, happiness, sadness, whatever and everything with each other – so I’m happy to share my story with you. From telling my story, I’m learning too. Too many people don’t realise – when you share, you’re learning as well. It’s not just talking – or rambling. I do seem to rant on interminably quite often, but I’m learning through the process.
Outside the box – this is where I’ll share my story, as it doesn’t really belong in any box. This is also my own little Inspiration Box that I’m glad to share.
Take inspiration here and there. You can always learn something new – that’s why we learn history and read autobiographies – we learn from each other. I’m learning something new about various things each day – including people I’m around. I’m the one that goes around pulling out inspiration from nearly everything possible and seemingly impossible. No, the word “impossible” doesn’t have much meaning in my dictionary. I’m driven by imagination and am a nature-loving dreamer – it’s strewn all over the place, too.
Here’s a place to explore beyond the boxes’ boundaries and edges. Sometimes, you can’t truly be free and unleash your dashing imagination unless you think “out the box.”
- Mikka
Perspectives
Sometimes I feel that the world wouldn’t function without the vast, varying, and often contrasting views. New perspectives conceive new ideas, innovations, imagination. The world truly wouldn’t be the same without each individual, with their own independent thought processes, ideas, and creativity.
What I’m sharing here is simply my perspective. This obviously means you do not need to agree. In fact, it’s probably a good thing if you don’t – if we all thought the same way and thought the same things, the world would be an awfully dull and uninteresting place. But if we look through another’s perspective every once in a while, we can learn and see things a different way – even still, that doesn’t mean you need to change your way of thought to someone else’s. It’s just a suggestion, an idea, an eye-opener.
What I’m sharing here is simply my perspective. This obviously means you do not need to agree. In fact, it’s probably a good thing if you don’t – if we all thought the same way and thought the same things, the world would be an awfully dull and uninteresting place. But if we look through another’s perspective every once in a while, we can learn and see things a different way – even still, that doesn’t mean you need to change your way of thought to someone else’s. It’s just a suggestion, an idea, an eye-opener.
MISSION
- We all have a purpose, whether we know it or not. I’ve always firmly believed this – though many may not. Perhaps those who don’t have not yet discovered theirs. Personally, I feel that I haven’t discovered mine – at least not yet fully. If you ask me what I want to do in ten years, I’ll tell you, “Good question. I’m wondering the same thing.” I’ve got friends who have known that they want to be neurologists and teachers and such since middle school – and there’s me, who only knows all the things I definitely don’t want to do. Guess what? That’s perfectly okay!
- In another sense, we have different purposes in different situations. At school, my purpose is to be a good student and learn. At home, my purpose is to be a daughter and granddaughter and big sister. On my own, my purpose is to continue my search for a deeper and more meaningful purpose – what I would contribute to the society and to the world.
- You don’t need to know your purpose already. It knows you, and it will find you. Just be patient. I agree it’s agonising – sometimes I freak out and stress out over not knowing what this mysterious purpose is.
- I’m not telling you to know already your purpose. I’m going to tell you my purpose here – right now, on this page. My purpose here is to share with you my story, and hopefully inspire you so you can one day pass on yours and inspire others. It’s like a chain reaction. Inspiration can be infectious too – in a good way. This is how you create change.
- My purpose – my mission – here, this instance, is to help others, to be a friend to you and many others who are going through hard times. Always remember we each are fighting a hard battle, and we’re much more similar than we think or we make it seem a lot of times. Knowing this, you would feel much closer to those around you. That’s reassuring to me. I’ve walked around feeling so alone, not understood, and not cared about for so many years – and everywhere, too. Now that I have a mission to help others so they won’t have to feel the same way, I feel more connected and similar to others. While I’m helping myself overcome my own problems, I’m helping a larger community outside of my own world – I’m helping to create change, and sharing change. I understand I won’t be able to help everyone, either, but I’ll be proud of myself if I can help all the people I’m capable of helping, and I’ve done all that I can to help.
- It’s not as difficult to do the same as many would think. This is how change is created – one by one. Have a mission first – what you want to accomplish. That’s how you get started.
- My mother told me I was selfish. I completely agreed, so I stepped out to reach out and help others. I’ve created this website dedicated to helping those who need help – whether they’re like me or not. We’re all going through something, and we all need help at times. It’s okay to ask for help. It took me a long time to learn that, and I still don’t completely understand sometimes.
- That’s why I’m trying to help. In a way, through helping others, I’m helping myself.
WHAT I HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH
- Add a little extra hope and sparkle in people’s lives
- Promote awareness to mental health, specifically teenage depression/suicide
- Be a friend to those who need one
- Be a good listener if you want to share your story
- Give useful advice to those who seek it
- Become more caring and considerate through helping others
The Inspiration Box
We all need inspirations to motivate us and keep us going. Inspiration is our fuel. Imagination is my ship and inspiration is my sail. My dreams are my steering wheel.
Here are the things (and people) in my life that inspire me. Of course, inspiration is different for everyone. But I want to share what keeps me going through my hard times – perhaps it’ll ring a bell somewhere within you – and help you in some way you may not realise.
Here are the things (and people) in my life that inspire me. Of course, inspiration is different for everyone. But I want to share what keeps me going through my hard times – perhaps it’ll ring a bell somewhere within you – and help you in some way you may not realise.
PROMISES
There was a period of time a while ago when my life seemed to start crashing and shattering endlessly. Each facet of my life was clashing with another – my school, home, social, mental lives were all tangling up and being engulfed by some sort of leviathan that fed on happiness and hope and spat out bitterness and hatred and remorse back at me. The weight of the broken pieces was unbearable. I was ready to quit, and I was done. There was no way I would be able to pick up all those pieces and glue them all back together.
One evening, as my grandfather headed upstairs, I walked by and somewhat absentmindedly said to no one in particular that I would never be as amazing and successful as my grandfather. My grandfather then paused and told me, “You will do better than me.” I laughed meekly, and stated simply, “That’s impossible. I would never do even a tenth of all you had accomplished.”
My grandfather then told me to promise him I would do better than him. I thought I was insane – I couldn’t make such an impossible promise.
It was those words my grandfather said that I would never forget for eternity: “Promise me, you will definitely do better than me.”
I never broke promises. It was just part of my nature to keep promises and live up to my word. Therefore I learned to not make promises so often since I didn’t want to live up to things I couldn’t accomplish.
I couldn’t refuse to promise my grandfather. I more couldn’t break such an important promise to one of the most important people in my life.
It was then that I finally realised I had to grab all those flying pieces of life and put them back where they belong, because I had something better to do than to go chasing after and babysitting those pieces. I had a promise to one of the most important people in my life to fulfil.
One evening, as my grandfather headed upstairs, I walked by and somewhat absentmindedly said to no one in particular that I would never be as amazing and successful as my grandfather. My grandfather then paused and told me, “You will do better than me.” I laughed meekly, and stated simply, “That’s impossible. I would never do even a tenth of all you had accomplished.”
My grandfather then told me to promise him I would do better than him. I thought I was insane – I couldn’t make such an impossible promise.
It was those words my grandfather said that I would never forget for eternity: “Promise me, you will definitely do better than me.”
I never broke promises. It was just part of my nature to keep promises and live up to my word. Therefore I learned to not make promises so often since I didn’t want to live up to things I couldn’t accomplish.
I couldn’t refuse to promise my grandfather. I more couldn’t break such an important promise to one of the most important people in my life.
It was then that I finally realised I had to grab all those flying pieces of life and put them back where they belong, because I had something better to do than to go chasing after and babysitting those pieces. I had a promise to one of the most important people in my life to fulfil.