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Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:51 PM

how going slower can let you stop and reflect.

Sometimes, there are times when I feel that I've been living my life in too much of a rush. Until the extent that I realise that I've neglected that feeling of learning how to relax.

It so happened that I was off from work today(in fact I'm off until next tuesday 'cause of CNY), so it was piano for me in the morning, then my dad and I went for lunch at Bukit Batok, one of the industrial places. Their mixed veggies rice is really nice, before 12pm ticks by, the queue already starts to form!
I tried to eat slowly, because I'm still recuperating from my cough and I wasn't sure how much I could actually stuff down because I wasn't that hungry. In the end I didn't finish the food, and I felt a bit guilty because I'm very conscious of the fact that there're many starving people in the 3rd world countries.

Somehow, by eating slowly, you can actually enjoy the food and the taste of it. It also allows better digestion and you won't feel sick(OK, this is starting to sound like a health journal, seriously!)

In a nutshell, while we live our lives, we also have to take care, and realise that our bodies are not meant to live a mad, hectic lifestyle all the time. While there are certainly days when we're swamped by work-regardless of whether it's school or office work, we also have to be aware that we have to slow down at the right time, so that we can smell the flowers, and in other words, reflect.

My mum's been extremely swamped with work recently because of her accounts closing deadline-no thanks to the long CNY break. So it's resulted in me getting abit of a brush-off when I call her in the office. Not that I mind, because that's the nature of working life.
It really surprised me when she apologized to me for neglecting me and brushing me off lately cos of her workload, because I didn't expect an apology as I know that working life can be extremely stress-inducing.

Somehow, it made me have the feeling of being loved. :) I'm really proud and glad to say that my mum's like my best friend-cum-sister. We're really open about literally everything, from the casual stuff to serious issues.