An Unusual Assignment

It's day 328 of documenting 2025.

37 days to 2026!

Twas a busy Monday indeed.

And I ended up exhausting my funds....due to transport to and from a certain lecture hall 😏

Well, that's how Mondays are.

For the rest of this week, I won't be needing transport fare, as the remaining lectures will be held in our department hall, which is close to my hostel.

A five minute walk will get me there.

How did today go?

Almost overwhelming.

But it seems I don't get overwhelmed these days, no matter how busy things get with work and course rep duties and study.

OMG! 😲 I have homework due for tomorrow! (Psy 159...)

Will get to it as soon as I publish this.

And a good thing happened today.

Someone I regard as my sister, finally called this evening.

I missed her call, but I called her back and we spoke for more more than 10 minutes.

Honestly, it was nice to hear her voice after a long while.

It's been two months 🥲

It was a wonderful moment spent talking to her...

I found out that she's still figuring life out, even with work and all.

I admire the fact that she sees the positive side, and didn't stop praying for us.

She also said that she would be calling from time to time.

I'll definitely expect that 😌

Another thing....

I finally finished the assignment we were given last week, by the lecturer taking us Psy 109.

And he hasn't taught us anything yet...just gave us a series of "strange" questions to answer.

The questions are:

1. Who am I?

2. Why did I choose Psychology?

3. What will I do with Psychology?

4. Do I think I will be a good psychologist?

Pretty weird questions, right?

But these questions actually made me think deeply.

I wrote my answers as music played from my phone.

I just wrote down what came to mind, like it was an oral conversation.

I don't know how the lecturer is going to assess the assignment, but I hope he doesn't ask us to read it in front of the class 😐

My answers are quite "unique".

Anyways, I just want to summarize my feelings and mood these days.

This period, I'm more indoors now...like, in my room.

And I'm working more on my ability to focus on tasks, without giving into distractions.

It won't be hard tho...

I already have a foundation on that from home.

Alrighty...

Let's see the highlights for today.

And then we do the usual sharing of thoughts and ending of posts.

Sounds like a plan 😊

365 Days With Self-discipline

📌 On Anger

"If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad."

Quote by Epictetus

Anger — or any other emotion that leads to impulsive decisions that you later regret — is an enemy of self-discipline. 

While it’s not always possible to catch yourself feeling angry before it converts into a full-blown attack of rage, whenever you can, act quickly and suppress the anger instead of feeding it.

Anger that compounds on itself will quickly take away any remnants of self-control that you may have.

For example, when I’m stuck in a traffic jam, annoyed at other drivers or at the traffic lights seeming to take hours to change, I try to redirect my growing anger into another emotion, stop myself from cursing, or at least try to curse in a

humorous way that won’t feed my frustration. 

That way, I prevent my anger from taking control of the situation. It’s a simple technique, but don’t let it fool you — it’s one of the most effective strategies to overcome attacks of unnecessary anger.

If you want to eliminate frequent attacks of anger from your life, begin counting the days on which you successfully suppress the first impulse to be angry. 

After a 7-day winning streak, you won’t want to lose all of your progress because of such a trivial thing as another driver driving too slowly or things temporarily not going your way.

Will this strategy always work? 

Obviously not.  

Everyone gets angry from time to time. 

However, if you make a conscious effort not to feed your temper, you’ll reprogram your default behavior, greatly reduce the frequency of losing your temper, and gain better control over your emotional state.

There's something I want to point out here...

And it's not the anger part.

I actually don't have anger issues, because I know that God says we can be angry, but to not let it get into the next day.

I'm a generally happy person, who gets pissed off sometimes.

But I haven't actually gotten angry to the point of blind rage before.

Not even when my siblings drive me crazy...

It's a blessing 😇

Anyways, what I wanted to point out is the use of streaks that he mentioned.

That actually works!

It one of my favorite ways to build consistency...and guess what?

This blog originated from an idea for a 365-day writing streak.

I'm still on the streak...

And honestly, it hasn't been easy.

I think I've told the story of almost giving up before.

Well I didn't...and here we are.

Less than 40 days left, and I can boast of writing for 365 days in a row! 

Can't wait! 😁

One more thing...

My brother called me about 30 minutes ago, when I was already dozing off.

If he hadn't, I would have slept off.

But I didn't....and I'm already done with this post.

Thanks for reading 🎀

Can you imagine that I almost forgot what I usually add next?

Here goes: you can always catch up on former posts.

Just visit Documenting 2025.

See you in the next post 💜