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So recently I have taken a new job here in Korea. Which means my journey here is being extended by at least another year. I recently took a job with the Korean Hydro & Nuclear Power Company which I’m quiet excited for. So Ryan teacher will go from teaching elementary students to teaching nuclear engineers that [...] Since I have been in Korea for about…340 or so days now, I have fallen into some routines. One particular routine is my walk from my apartment to the subway/work (they are in the same spot) that I repeat multiple times a day. I know it sounds mundane but I think it is something that I [...] So keeping in tact with my usually posting timeliness I am finally writing a post about my birthday over a month after my birthday…I really need to get better about this whole blogging thing. Anyways my birthday in Korea was definitely up there as one of the better ones that I have had. I guess I’ll just [...] There has been something about my journey thus far into Korea that has been kind of a difficult for me to fully adjust to and that is the transitivity of my relationships with people. It seems that this is something that has been a permeating factor of my time here. Some relationships I have with people [...] So I don’t know what has been happening over the past year or so but I have fallen in love with dancing. When people used to attempt to get me to dance they said it was like pulling teeth, but now I find myself dancing when I just think about music while I’m walking down the [...] I once told a guy named Floyd that if given a choice between being the decision maker on a hard choice or deferring to someone else so that I can live without the burden, that I would choose to be the decision maker. I strangely thought of this after reading a manga of Naruto. Shikamaru nearly quits being a ninja because after a mission almost all of his unit (who consists mainly of his friends) were hospitalized. His father explained to him that if he quits someone else will be put in charge of his friends and the pain will only be worse when they screw up and get his friend’s killed while Shikamaru proverbially sat on the sidelines and differed the choices that resulted in his friends death to someone else. Realizing this Shikamaru decides that he will continue leading regardless of how terrible he feels and most likely will feel in the future and vowing that he will tirelessly work in order to better protect his friends. I believe that Shikamaru made the best choice that when given a chance to choose between deciding something difficult or differing the choice to another and relying on them to carry that burden, as he did, I would want the burden. Only then will I be able to ensure the best choice is made because the choice is within my power and if I choose poorly that is because I did not work hard enough to understand, comprehend, etc… the ramifications of my choice. I cannot damn someone else for a choice that I coward away from. I instead have to use my failure as fuel for the fires that will power me to work harder, think more, and to make a wiser decision for future hard choices. Continue reading Hard Choices He who has why to live can bear almost any how Thought this was an awesome quote, because it touches on that the people that have a purpose/reason/goal (i.e. the ‘why’) do not need to ask themselves ‘how to live.’ They already have their answer. For the Atlas Shrugged fans out there I bet this is a [...] |
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