Day 50 / 108 Challenge

#50

"I bow to know that happiness, unhappiness, and desire are all within my mind."

I was somewhat nervous going into the evening as it was going to be my first time meeting my girl's friends and sister. Her sister was unfortunately feeling not too well, so I only got to meet her friends. In my point of view, the party went well, and I was able to get along with all of the attendees just fine. Her friend integrated me a little for sure, but I think I passed her tests.

Returning from the party, I was sitting with mixed feelings though. More so to try to understand my intentions based on actions tonight. Everyone was appreciative, but may have thought I was helping out too much. I was heading into negative realm, but today's prayer spoke to me. I get to choose whether I am happy or not.

Was I trying to impress them? Maybe a little. Was I being not true to myself and tried to do too much? Absolutely not. I was simply being me, a helpful human being, and was trying to be friendly to everyone at the scene.

However, looking back, I could not care less about what they thought of me after the initial introduction. I cared about spending time with my girl, and meet her side of people tonight. My motives behind helping to set up the party, bartending, and cleaning afterwards was NOT to get people to like me. I just wanted to be helpful to my girl, and make her happy.

I also realize that I simply like being helpful and resourceful to people I care about. There is no better way to satisfy me than to watch people I care about be happy.

I also got to know few more things about her during this social setting. I got to know that she used to be interested in photography. Also, when one guy asked how I would describe my girl as with one word, I answered, "caring". She was expecting me to say "being decisive". This was an interesting discussion as I would have never gone with the decisive part, and she did not expect me to describe her as "caring" either.

I also helped her carry some heavy stuffs home at the end of the night when she was instead going to come back the next day for them. Her being appreciative definitely made the chore feel like nothing, and I appreciated that she thanked me for my actions.

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Challenge Log

Requirements
No Snacks No drinks or desserts exceeding weekly limit	No snacks
Water intake (max 2L)	2L
2x Pomodoro flows (read min. 10 pages)	Mock exam 2
Productive activity (write a journal or a blog; create a product)	Journalling
Physical activity (min. 45 minutes)	PULL DAY 1. Chin-ups +45/70/80/95lb 5-3-1.5-1 2. DB row 95lb 4x6 3A. BB curl 100lb 2-2.25-1.5-1 3B. DB tricep extension 25lb 4x8 4A. DB pull over 70lb 8-7-6-6 4B. DB bench press 25lb 4x8 5. Leg raises + 30s boat hold 3x15
Wildcard (any 1 of read/produce/exercise above)	(READ) Mock exam 2 review

Should've/Would've/Could've

-- You did not have to finish the leftover food.

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