What makes waiKeat happy?

Our priorities and perspectives on life change as we grow older. What concerns us now may not be important anymore in future. 
This is why I am keeping a blog, to allow the future waiKeat to evaluate how matured he has become and to see whether he has achieved what he wanted to do.

I have to admit that I am the kiasu kind of person. Getting good results can definitely make me happy. Having a lot of close friends also contribute to my happiness. However, this doesn't mean that I define my happiness in terms of academic achievement and the number of friends I have. There are lots of things in which I would be rejoicing. But, nothing can compare to being able to live up to the values within myself. 

What are my values? Why am I having values as my top priority?
When we are to leave the world, it is with the values that we leave, not with our material wealth, our achievement, our fame. I want to leave the world with contentment, without regrets. Therefore I have to make sure that my conscience is clear all the time. And thus it is important to have a set of values within me.

Again, what are my values?
I have a lot of values that I am practising/ wish to practise in my life. Here I am going to briefly describe 4 of them: SHED.

S- Sincerity.
I want to do everything sincerely. To me, if anything is done without sincerity, it is meaningless. Yea it is true that I may not be sincere at certain times, but I am trying hard to be. We have to help people sincerely, as in not asking or hoping for anything in return. We have to learn sincerely, as in learning to acquire knowledge, not merely to pass the exams. We have to do everything sincerely by putting our heart into whatever we do.

H- Honesty.
I try to be as honest as I can. Sadly, sometimes my honesty is defined as naivety (with a negative connotation, I suppose so). But who cares? This is MY value. Err... I have to admit too sometimes I am just too honest that my honesty causes problems for me. Haiz. I think I have to learn to be honest at the right time. Maybe I am too eager to change (yea I told lots of lies in the past). Hmm.. What I want to express is, we all should be honest, at least to ourselves.

E- Empathy.
Empathy is the experiencing of others' feelings, thoughts or attitudes. It is my belief that empathy is important as we are not living alone in the world. At the same time, we do want people to understand us too. Hence, we have to learn to put ourselves in others' shoes. Everyday, we meet people from all walks of life who have different background, religions, values and cultures. It doesn't mean that we can't be friend if we are having different values. We must not be self-centered and should be able to think from the others' perspectives. Only then, we can comprehend their thinking and widen our outlooks of life.

D- Determination.
Frankly speaking, I am not a determined person. I am very good at planning. But when it comes to executing a plan, I am nothing. My problem is not having enough determination, or I should say, motivation to keep myself moving. Many great and brilliant plans of mine had failed because I am not determined. Again, like what I did in the past THREE SEMESTERS, I have planned my semester break activities. This time my focus will be on learning and reading: learning English grammar and reading Mandarin literature. Oh, how can I forget to mention jogging! Haha, I must join my sister in jogging. hehehe.

Well, these are my SHED. What are yours?

20天里的第四篇，献给每一个想要活出自我价值的你。