I have to always post references to Star Wars in any and all medium. This movie has been a part of my life for my entire life. I am so happy I get to experience it over and over and over again in so many different forms. True definition of Pop Culture.
This was a quote from Lil C on the 8th season of So You Think You Can Dance.
Lil C is always so eloquent and I am sure he has been quoted ad nauseam. He is quite the poet. But, this quote touched me in particular.
I feel like there is nothing that I have ever done in my year on this earth that is “8 notches above perfection”. No one has every said or even considered something I have done any where near the 1’st notch, let alone the 8th. Worst yet, there is nothing that I have done myself that would make me say that about myself. And, really that is what is important. Not that I am striving for perfection. I am striving to be proud of myself. To me, that is perfection. All levels of perfection.
Now I know what your saying. You are being to hard on yourself. You need to work on your self esteem. There are people in this world that love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah blah blah! I know and that is all great, but what I am striving for here is bigger then that.
I want to participate in something that I am proud of and where I will achieve that level of perfection that I am talking about. I want to participate in life. That is the first step.
In love, in relationships, in my career, in my life, I don’t think I have started to participate. I have no idea what that person felt like hearing that said about something that she did. I can only imagine. I bet that she probably felt proud of herself. She felt accomplished. She felt that her hard work had paid off. She felt like all the sacrifices, all the shit that she put up with him her life where so worth it at that moment. And, she probably enjoyed the moment then pushed herself even more to feel that way again. She participated. I have never done any of that . . . yet!!
So, I have decided right here and now to participate. I know what I want to do and I have the imagination and the drive to know what I want to achieve in my life. In all aspects of my life. Now I am ready to participate in order to achieve those things. I feel that I can achieve perfection just by being a player in the game. No more sitting and watching it happen to others. Or worse yet, sitting around other who don’t have the same drive. Mediocrity is unacceptable. I am striving for more in every category of my life.
I want to be 8 notches above perfection. I want to see what life feel like from that height.
I know this is an on going theme in my blog and if you have only visited China or only heard about it, you probably still don’t quite understand why these incidents are so amusing to me and my friends who live here. But, trust me when I say that I have never laughed my ass off over so many situations as I have in China. The latest happened just 5 minutes ago. My boss/friend and I were leaving dinner and stopped at this little boutique next door to the restaurant. We were looking at some pendants and rings and boss/friend sat her computer down to take a closer look. We didn’t buy anything. So, we proceeded to exit the store and walk over to our hotel a good 5 minute walk up two flights of stairs.
We are opening the door to go into the hotel and we hear this guy yelling at us in Chinese, “Miss, Miss, your computer, Miss.” Oh, ok. boss/friend forgot her computer. No problem, thanks for letting us know. Thanks for bringing it . . .
He didn’t bring it. He ran 5 minutes, after us, up two flights of stairs, to just tell us that she forgot her computer. He didn’t bring the computer. I couldn’t believe it. He didn’t bring us the computer, he just ran all the way over here to tell us we left it. Is that not insane. Why waste all that energy and yelling at us like a banshee and not even have the computer to give to us. Am I going crazy here? Am I missing something? Are they missing something?
Unbelievably! We had to walk all the way back to the store, down two flights of stairs and then back to the store, with the guy. He actually started asking us questions like, “So, how long you been in China?” OMG! Boss/friend was pissed but we were laughing our asses off the whole time.
There is just some things about living here that just can’t be explained sometimes.
Sydney Aaliyah Michelle 