socializing

Good friends are hard to come and this is true. Some say that you do not need many friends, just a few true ones will do. That sounds true to me, too.

They said that socializing is a kind a skill. No doubt. For some, it may takes few years of polishing, for some it may just be their in-born nature while for others it may a painstaking experience. Honestly, it is not really a hard-to-acquire skill. If only you put in your heart to learn it, as nothing is impossible.

It is really nice to meet up friends who, even though had not met up each other for years, yet they seems so warm and wanted to know how you have been doing. Though questions may be roughly the same from everyone - how have you been, where are you working now, what are you working as, have you gotten a boyfriend/girlfriend, when are you getting married, how is your child(ren), who are you keeping in touch with, etc. Typical questions, and sometimes is it kind of bored to keep hearing the same questions over and over again. Yet, most of the times, these are actually the best ice-breaking questions!

It actually feels good that someone wanted to know how you have been doing. Though it is always hard to explain in lengthy and sometimes I suspect the other party might not be that interested to hear all the details. Mostly people would just want to know the summarized version of your life. Nobody have hours to listen just your part of the story. Well, unless for those that you have been keeping in touch you all along, might want to know the latest updates.

So, if you only you have learnt a bit of socializing skill, all these would pose no problem and you would not feel out of place in the mass of people, whom you called them your friends.

individuality

Individuality. This word somehow found its way to my morning conversation just now. And it struck hard.

It is always easy to say that each and every person is unique in its own way, each having different kind of personality and you could never find two person alike. But how often do we really think and act as if each and everyone is an individual?

Often, we are stuck in our own world of fantasy. Imagining everything and everyone around us will do what we would like, what we would approve of or what we think is right. That is why it always upset us when things go the wrong way.

Well, everyone is different. So, what we have to do when what others do or say don't seems to agree with us, always remember the word, individuality.

twilight @ new moon

Been catching up with my readings recently, and it felt so good to be able to sneak back into the dream world, mesmerize by all those words.

I have been indulged in Stephanie Meyer books for the past weekend and end up finishing the first two books of the Twilight series. Can't seems to wait to get my hand on the final two.

I often wondered, how can some authors write such remarkable books. Well, I guess they do take years of hard work to perfect their skills or maybe some just have the gift of writing in themselves. Of course, writing needs some creativity, too, else everyone would end up with the same plot and same storyline. Maybe life experiences have some credits, too.

How can one not love book when it can bring you to anywhere in the world, the past or future, to the imaginary world or even the reality world. The endless flowing of words that make you not able to take your eyes off them.

TBC