Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:17 PM
a mission from the positive-land
It's February 28th today and its the last day of the month. Say goodbye and wave heartily everyone as February '07 boards the steamliner and sails away from our shores never to return. Come next year, this date will no longer hold the significance it has today. It won't be the last day of the month 'cause good ol' February 29th will take on over that role and kick the 28th a day in front.
I have always wondered why February only had 28 days and only leap years grant us the pleasure of a 29th page to mark off on calendars. Did some Roman emperor experience a bad day and thus decided to cut his misery short by declaring the next month to come already? Or did a mischievious little toddler mess with the work of the pioneering calendar-planner and use his plans for February to scribble and doodle?
I typed the above before searching for the answers and my theoretical assumptions were quite close to the reason. And quite close being say a huge rock's throw away? Haha. It's rather long to elaborate and I'd rather not risk plagiarism so go here.
My February 28th held everything all Wednesdays usually throw my way. Classes from 8 right up until 4 except today I managed to wiggle my way out of Norzan's Management 101. And for good reason too.
I got to sit cross-legged on the carpeted floor of the Piaget Lab to listen to a bright middle-aged psychologist as she tried to squeeze in years of work in Positive Psychology in a few slides within an hour. She was eloquent and passionate about everything she spoke on. Her one hour allocation had a 10 minute extension and boy, was she proud to have finish at 10 past 11. Haha.
Happiness, people, emotions, positive affects, Hedonism, Eudaimonism, Maslow's peak experience.
Interesting field, that one.
And from that I have a mission for the ones who bother to read to this end. Before you sleep think of three (3) things that you have performed well throughout the day and ponder on why they worked out the way they did, also why you consider the tasks to have gone well. It can be anything as simple as cheering a friend up with a compliment or even carrying out a conversation with a stranger. Just find three and make sure they are good by your standards.
Do this for a week and you might just find yourself a happier person at the end of the week.
Try it, won't you?
I promise it won't hurt.
=)
edit: Six Characters Looking for an Author will be blablabla-ed on soon.
minx wrote at9:17 PM
