bridge over troubled water

(in hualien, this July)

If you have the fear of walking through a bridge, going on a coaster ride or coming on stage for a presentation, then you must know what it felt before and afterwards. It seems frightning at first thought, but when you actually do it and you recall the memory, you don't quite understand why the fear existed in the first place. Especially for presentations, you rethink the whole process afterward and wonder what if you did this or that would it be better and why was I nervous at all?

I think it's the same for anything in life. When you give too much thought in how something should be done, it becomes merely an idea. True execution is not just forcing yourself to have control and do what was meant to be done but to realize that all you're worrying about is nothing when finished. It's not courage but you understand it's only your mind that's giving you illusions of a not yet future.

So do what you have to .

This morning it was social marketing again. Thinking of the process in marketing used for social issues made me rethink the whole logic. When you do marketing for a product or service, you're trying to convince the target individual to buy the idea and to take a futher step, which in social marketing you're trying to raise the awarenss or change the action of target individuals. But the probelm here is, most probelms may not be completely created by the individual him/her self, such as not using a condemn or being a victim domestic abuse. But many campaigns and ads try and focus on making the target audience change behavior (such as start using a condemn or start to fight back on domestic abuse), but is that really going to change the problem? Do they really ask what is the reason they do so? Are they really trying to solve the core problem? For instance, if the society was comfortable with people having a condemn around and it was easy to purchase one without the shame, wouldn't it be easier for people to WANT to have a condemn around? I don't know the answer, there could be a lot of reasons, but I'm jsut saying the pressure shouldn't be on the individual him/her self, just as victoms of rape are often accused of their own carelessness when the other forces in this society should be responsible as well.

Afternoon was French!!! Man, is this class fun! We spent three hours practicing our pronounciation, grammer and of course a lot of new vocabulary. Had fun with my classmate for we were always in pairs doing conversation in French. I hope I keep up and after an year I'll at least have the basic skills to be left in Paris alone.

Slept a bit after I got home. Tired for no reason.

Well, due to sleep at 12:00. Better start working.
Meeting with a possible sponsership (partner maybe) tomorrow as well , wish me luck!!!