Productive. "Achieving or producing a significant amount or result."
This is one of the words on my personal "Top 10 words I hate" list. It gets thrown around like some sort of expectation. You know how everyone's supposed to be different? That applies here too. I want to share with you two different days: Day 1) I wake up. I take my meds. I answer an email. I go back to sleep. I wake up. I go back to sleep. I wake up. I eat a little. I take my meds. I go to sleep. Day 2) I wake up. I take my meds. I answer an email. I get on the bus. I go to the library. I go do cadet work. I go downtown. I buy food/snacks. I go to the other library. I go home on the bus. I put away my food. I answer and write more emails. I write a few scenarios. I do more cadet work. I play video games. I take out the trash. I do the dishes. I do the laundry. I play games on my computer. I talk to a friend. I have dinner. I talk to my friend some more. I go grocery shopping. I come home. I take my meds. I go to sleep. Which day seems productive? Answer: they both are. Productive is a relative term. Sometimes, Day 1 is all I can handle, and that's ok. I did 3 productive things: I took all my meds on time. I answered an email. I ate. Other times, I need Day 2 to be able to function. It's all relative. Today, I found myself getting angry at me because I "wasn't doing anything". I was sitting in a chair doing "nothing". I forgot that productivity is relative. Besides, I did get a lot done today other than sitting in my chair. I went to cadets and sat in a chair there. I went to a meeting. I call that a productive day. I know how hard it can be to remind yourself that productive is a relative term. The point of this entry is to remind you to tell yourself: I WAS productive today. .....Clearly you were, because you are reading this now; because you are awake. That's a productive day in my books.....
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Have you ever wondered how some drawings can look so realistic that you almost trip (or actually trip) because it looks like you stepped over the edge of a cliff? How about those famous illusions where there's a rabbit and a duck, or 2 faces and a vase? Optical illusions have always fascinated me, not because they are cool - which they are - but because of the ability for an illusion to manipulate the way our brains interpret our vision. Let's start off easy: What do you see? A white vase? Two silhouetted faces? This illusion makes use of our mind's ability to look at positive and negative space. Some people will see the vase first, others the two faces first. I'm not sure how this affects others, but I find that with every focal change (my eyes adjusting) I flip back and forth between the positive and negative spaces. Personally, I can't see them both at once. Leave me a comment if you can see them simultaneously, it'd be neat to know whether others can see it like that. Moving forward to another one: This is another "Which do you see first?" illusion. There are two people in this picture, and by changing how you focus your eyes you can see them both. While the first illusion focused on negative and positive space, this one makes use of a single image that can be interpreted in two different ways.
So who do you see first? The young woman or the old lady? At the end of this month is "Organ and Tissue Donors Awareness Week". I wanted to say a few words on this because it isn't well known that Canadian Blood Services does a lot more than just blood. Through them, you can donate blood (of course), stem cells, umbilical cord blood, organs and other tissue. Even if you can't be a blood donor, you can often donate stem cells or other tissue. Personally, I can't be a blood donor. I want to be, but there are too many medications in my system. I could possibly donate stem cells, but I have a tendency to procrastinate and just haven't gone in to find out if I'm allowed to register as a donor. I'd also like to be listed as an organ donor if possible. Like I said, I have a tendency to procrastinate and haven't gone in. Here are some interesting facts about donating blood and other tissue:
Canadian Blood Services has clinics all over Canada.
So...want to help save a few lives? |
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