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Realizing It or Not (but) You Made You

By Farah Mayu - July 31, 2020


Lori was a seven-year-old girl. She was a very cheerful, brave little girl who had fearless of nothing and kind-hearted too (in her own ways). Her friends had always played and never left her alone. Even though some other times, she was such a brat at school–her leadership had come out of control even a bunch of the boys at school were totally obeyed and scared of her.

Mr. Thomas–Lori’s dad–was a great mechanic in the hometown. He has run a family business, a small workshop which held since his family moved on to their new dwelling, right before Amy – Lori’s mom–gave birth to her eldest twin brother–Mike and Noah. Both of them were totally off-limits. Lori was the last child.

Regularly, the alarm had all settled up at 4 in the morning to start her routine, she did not care would it be school day or weekend. At any rate, she had to wake her body up right thunderbolts. It felt like forcing her inner laziness before making it into daily habits and doing it gladly.

Every day after school along with every single chance she had, she would spend her time helping his dad at the workshops. Playing along with gears on a machine or vehicle, either her clothes and hands were completely covered by spilled oil. Depending on her behavior itself, she only loved cars and masculine stuff made her hate feminine things like the normal other girls around their ages; barbie, cute stuff, or even pink color. Not only, Lori, but both Mike and Noah also had the same taste tho. Since baby, they have already collected so many types of hotwe*ls which was abso-freaking-ly cool at that time. Without recognizing how affected it was, Lori's interest got bigger from time to time.

She loved reading books. It started when her dad showed her a big thick book that contained cars and machines. Right after brainwashing her brain systems, she found out that reading was something that not really bad at all. 

Lori's taste in wearing clothes completely peculiar. Instead of buying a cute dress like girls always did, she did not. She had nothing to wear besides a pair of jeans, a white cotton t-shirt, a cap, and sneakers and tied her hair up like a ponytail neither she ever wondered about how to put-on-makeup as a noteworthy. Duh. She did not need to be worry over her natural self. Having two brothers whose basically twin making her easy to stop buying new clothes because she could wear theirs as much as she wanted.

The country song probably her favorite genre. She liked listening to some olds tune, herdable, peaceful but sometimes within the unique rhythm indeed memorable lyrics. That's why summer was her special season hence by summer she either could play hide and seek with her brothers or play baseball at the nearest hometown park with her male friends. 

Mr. Thomas on the other hand never complained about children's interests. He thought kids had the right to learn new things, to do adventure, even to explore something ridiculous. Amy also had the same thoughts. As parents who knew about parenting, they gave their kids freedom within reasonable limits. Tolerance is essential. Likewise, democracy is a must, discipline is basic and rules exist without hurting. Lori had an amazing support system within her life. Growing up surrounded by happily-ever-after-family made Lori be humble and happy to help others.

As time went by, she became more unladylike. Even now her ages almost reach for twentieth. Her interest in engineering was no kidding. She loved it so much. As a matter of fact, Lori dreamed of becoming a successful female mechanic, yep, right under Thomas's radar. Well, she approved it by bringing up a good score in her major for the 4th consecutive semester in college. However, education was something very important in Lori's family circumstances. 

From Lori's short-story, does anyone know what kind of personality she has?

David Eagleman writes in “Incognito":

“Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in decision making. And most of the time, it’s not.”

Lori is unladylike or we call it tomboy. She is brave, humble, strong, intelligent, independent, and discipline. The one simplest thing she has done is waking up at 4 straight in the morning. Every freaking day.

At first, she hated how her sweet dream had to go unnoticed and forced to hear the sound of an alarm set before bedtime. 

She was growling, "Arrrgghhh."

In a flash, with grumbling, she rubbed her eyes, rose, and then turned off the terrible wail. Did she all set up? of course no. Her bed kept calling her to return to its warmth. She failed. It happened at least for almost the first week. But then she made the grade at it. She thought it could not be happening any longer cause she was not used to it until forcing herself further. Right? and she did change it into a daily habit. 

Let's see ourselves further.

Do our habits on the right path toward the dreams we have? Or is it too hard to kill the laziness that keeps uprising over time?

Who will YOU become 10 years from now?

  • We all have the same 24 hours in a day
  • We all face change
Our future will be the result of how effectively each one of us managed time and change.

Are your habits outdated?

Are your actions aligned with your goals?

But, are we sure still alive? Although death is always after us.

Thus, stop wasting every freaking minute you have.

Expect nothing from Him except hopes for the best.
Once you think you can do it, then you can. If you think you suck and expect nothing good, then God will do.

Therefore,

Our thoughts affect our souls.

Our thoughts designed by us.

However, to look after what book you read, the film you watch, the music you listen to, what social media you completely download are, or even your kind of its timeline is of great importance.

For the better or worse, our habits shape us

Our habits are closely linked to our mindset. Suppose, waking up every morning, 
the first thing you do is planning your day ahead and making a commitment that “today, I will anyhow execute the plan before going to bed”. If you follow this routine for long enough, it will become a habit. Slowly, it will become a part of your mindset that if you will make a plan or a commitment, you will execute it. In other words, you will cultivate willpower in your mindset. There can be an infinite number of daily life examples where your habit determines your mindset. What we regularly do or we involve in are our habits. And it is obvious if we are doing something, we think upon it, we search for different ideas and many more to make that thing happen. Also, when you do something as a habit, this obviously has some consequences and after effect on which you have to deal with. That means whenever your intelligence, your ideas, and many more which shapes how you think and how you behave.

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