Tag: offence

Not My Business – 7th July 2024

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Your opinion of me, it could hurt
You can only teach if I wish to learn
Keep kicking it along in the dirt
Your opinion of me is not my concern

To take offence is to give offence
An ever-decreasing circle of pain
I’ll not give you satisfaction at my expense
Or even bother to explain

First attempt at an 8-line poem about what offends me. Nothing offends me, not personally.

Today I’m feeling:

Lazy.  I didn’t intend to. Though I didn’t have any other intention either.

My energy has returned but motivation has gone missing. Part of this is due to knowing that I will have lots of spare time this coming week.

Today I’m grateful for:

The freedom to be lazy today. 

The best thing about today was:

Clearing a bunch of videos out of my ‘watch later’ queue.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

Everything was in my control, I just made the laziest choices!

Something I learned today?

I finished watching the Idles documentary and enjoyed it a lot. I like their music but usually only in small doses. I can appreciate their appeal as genuine human beings and that makes me like them more.

I took this picture because I wanted to send it to Noey. I told her that Utopia is boys only now (now that there are no female staff). Save also said that she had told him that she wanted to stay in the USA, so I messaged her to find herself a boyfriend while she’s there.

King For A Day – 13th May 2024

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Arrogance is not self-confidence
The tall poppies will get cut down
A chest swollen with pride will get
Snuffed out, rubbed out into the ground

Because there’s always someone bigger
The kings come and go each day
What is that high opinion hiding?
Always causing offence in this way

Second attempt at writing an 8-line poem about what offends me. I avoided pronouns in this and was trying to put myself into the position of being offended by something but it didn’t quite work out.
Submitted to FOWC – Arrogant

Today I’m feeling:

Really sick. I woke up in the middle of the night, having to run to the bathroom a couple of times. Then after waking up, I had to go again and then threw up too. 

I went to school but decided to come back quickly and got back into bed, getting up again at 5 pm.

Hopefully, I can sleep tonight and feel better tomorrow.

Today I’m grateful for:

Royal-D electrolytes and carbon for calming my guts and replacing things that evacuated.

We got that attitude! – 30th July 2020

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I am so happy and grateful for the heavy curtains in my room. They help keep the room cool during the day. It’s still super hot but imagine what it would be like without them.

To-do list

  • More blog posts – try to get well ahead
  • Awards awards – all the time ½
  • Compliments and kindness ½

A sort of difficult day today. I felt a little off – not unhappy but not quite content, a little bit thoughtless perhaps.

I felt myself get upset with George when he questioned why I was doing something and I took offence at being questioned about my methods. I understand his reasons for saying what he did but I still feel like he say things in a way that is suggesting that his way is the best. I don’t need to bite at this – I especially shouldn’t react verbally or even emotionally.

I can see instances when he does the same but can turn a comment around into a positive. I need to be more aware of that. As usual – listen (really listen) first, think, evaluate – last resort is to speak!

After school, Ellen had lined up a potential client for online teaching. I was thinking that this would have to be a totally different method for teaching. At school I should adopt the George attitude – don’t stress too much, make it fun for the kids, just make the ones who struggle feel good ie I shouldn’t care so much.

But for Chinese students online, paying a premium I do have to be well organised and know what I’m doing and talking about. I’m still learning – still trying.