[My Musing] Wonder Woman in the Modern World #1

TIME CHECK

I was awakened by the loud shouting of a vegetable vendor down the street nearby. I could tell it’s about past 7 o’clock in the morning as she comes around at that time. After taking a quick stretch, I got out of bed and checked the clock for the exact time. In a split second, my brain went into a sudden confusion! The second hand was moving clockwise, but the minute hand was pointing at 12 while the hour hand was at 4. Is it 4 o’clock in the morning!?

I had to open the curtain for a quick peek of the sky to check if it’s already daytime; indeed, it was. Right then, I knew the clock needed a battery change. Its double-A battery is no longer sufficient to sustain the power it needs to tell the correct time.

**Do you believe that situations in our life can be instruments leading us toward personal awareness and growth? I do.

ACTIVITY DOES NOT EQUAL PRODUCTIVITY

I always thought that the validation of a genuine wonder woman is her ability to tackle undertakings extraordinarily. In my case, activities fuel my schedule. It’s like the lifeblood of my daily living. I feel useful when I juggle many activities simultaneously such as when I am at home, I can cook while doing the laundry and while tidying up.

On occasions that I am not physically active, I do mind work. I would sit in my thinking corner with my notebook and pen clustering my to-do’s, writing quotes or poems, insights, questions and reflections about life, rewriting short term and long term goals, and so on. These activities seem to reflect a modern world wonder woman power.

In a general sense, sometimes, we can all fall in this trap of living in a routine. We attend to our work, accomplish household chores, fulfill social obligations, attend to our family’s needs or manage our relationships. And we convince ourselves that we are being productive because we are actively doing what we are supposed or used to do. Perhaps, to some extent, we do.

However, this illusion of doing something can sometimes blind us and tell ourselves that we are functioning as we are supposed to but something inside us is malfunctioning. We need to examine thoroughly how such an activity is a reflection of real productivity.