A Difficult Conversation While Scrolling TikTok- 2nd January 2026

What do you wanna do?

….I dunno. What do you wanna do?

You wanna eat?

….I dunno. You wanna eat?

What do you wanna eat?

….I dunno. What do you wanna eat?

….

You wanna wait?

Yeah. No. I dunno. You wanna wait?

….

Wanna play Call of Duty?

….I dunno. You wanna?

….

Wanna…

You wanna?

….

….

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Sometimes, it’s easy to be nostalgic for conversations like this. Everything is possible, yet nothing is doable!
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Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Education Is Freedom

Learning how to live,
the lovers of wisdom know
only the educated are free
to watch their freedom grow.

We got that attitude! – 5th August 2020

I am so happy and grateful that I have more energy these days. It helps me make better decisions.

To-do list

  • Awards – why is this hard? ½
  • Compliment two people ✅
  • Remember that thing about listening ½
  • Clear some emails ½
  • IELTS and TOEFL check ½

An enjoyable day as I only had to teach for 2 hours and it was with 1/9 who are the best students. I felt more grounded today and I was looking for opportunities to do the things on my list but often they came to my mind at times when it was too late to action. I want to keep on trying to form the habits of the first 3 things on my list – I feel like they are important.

Kru Fluke helped me with some printing today so I gave her an award of my favourite teacher of the day but after that, I forgot about any other awards. As I was writing this I also remembered that I told Dylan he was a good guy for helping me with something too – so that’s my two compliments.

I helped Dylan a little in his class too so I’m going to cross off my Random Act of Kindness achievement for today. I’m actually finding it difficult to stay out of other classes because I just enjoy being around the students and helping out.

With nothing much else to do for preparation for work I could spend all day reading or listening to podcasts or watching vides but helping out is making me feel happy. I’m really enjoying working here and I have to thanks George a lot for that.