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November’19 – Life’s workshop
Posted on: November 18, 2019
It has come to the end of another of my holidays in America, and it is the time that I’m afraid the most: the goodbye! Well, it happens every year but you got to agree with me that goodbye is never fun, it is always nostalgic and sentimental.
Lying in bed the last night is always lonesome and you always wonder what the future holds. If you have read my October’s blog, you would have encountered the same feelings that I express in that entry.
However, every year I came back to my family for a holiday, it is like I went through a life’s workshop that update me, changes me in a positive way and I absolutely treasure my time with my family. It’s the time when I can refill my love, feel the energy rise again inside me so that when I come back to Australia, I have the strength to tackle another year ahead.
I feel grateful and lucky to have a strong family, whose members love each other and we are tight in an unbreakable tight knot that will never be broken. I am old and mature now to know how to use my yearning and sentimental feeling for my family to turn it into strength to keep fighting for what I want in life.
This holidays I have hug my family countless times and tell them how much I love them, in words, that makes sound, not mumble! I find that sometimes we argue in loud voice but when it comes to expressing our feelings to our family, we become these crippling and weak talker, afraid to tell them that we love them. Maybe it is because we have learned to bury our feelings so deep underneath that when we need to express it, we feel awkward.
I strongly recommend you to have a thought about who really matter to you, who you really love in your life, whether they are your friends, your family, your relatives or your son and daughter, then hug them and tell them out loud so they can hear it that you love them and they mean a lot to you. Tell them frequently and don’t wait until “the right moment”. There is no right moment for love, every moment is the right moment to tell someone they really mean a lot to you.
I have find so much more courage during this holidays, meet a few new people and realise that life is all about balance, about forgiving and empathise as well as being compassionate towards others. It is relieving to express your feeling out when it bothers you. When you sad, tell yourself “I am sad”. Have a monologue with yourself why you feel that way and work out a solution if possible. It will feel lighter if you can acknowledge and be honest with yourself. There is nothing to be afraid of. It can be daunting talking with yourself about sensitive or feeling issues, but you will get used to it and it becomes easier to open the door to your soul. Let you and yourself always be transparent as between you and yourself, it is always both secret and bare, no one have to know, only you and yourself know.
I know I have digress a fair bit from the topic of this blog. Let’s wrap it up for now. Another year is about to come to an end, and I know that I have tried my best this year. I have learned more this year, find more courage and love with family and friends. I know I am a step closer to who I want to be, to where I want to be and to my dreams. I know deep inside I have endless love for my family, relatives and closed friends, and I have learned to take a deep breath, turn this into strength to tackle life harder and be more mature.
Bring it on another year, another Life’s workshop and I am ready!
Dear readers,
First of all, I am a person who likes to write down memories, especially important ones, so I don’t forget when I grow older in life. I am a memory keeper.
I want to dedicate this blog for my beloved gym that has just closed it door for good: Fitness First branch at Highpoint shopping centre. The gym closed on 30/11/2014, a sad day for me and all the members at this gym. I apologise that I could not have time to write this blog right on the day. However, my memory and my feeling are still fresh so here it is.
If there is a place that transformed me forever, it would have to be this gym.
I joined the gym October last year 2013 with my friend Truc. She dragged me to the gym with her because she said she got some free passes. I have always be daunted by the idea of going to the gym because I don’t want people to see me working out (and then I would get embarrassed about how unfit I am).
Before starting gym, I was doing running around my block everyday. I had been running for 2 years so I can say I was average in fitness level. I was not exactly weak but no where near strong enough to do marathon.
So there I was, stepping into the gym for the first time, feeling scared. Truc said not to worry because no one would look at you at the gym (which is exactly the same way I told my friends now when I dragged them to the gym). I stepped into my first class: Les Mills’ Bodyattack.
My friend said tried this class first, then Bodypump later. I injured myself in the first Bodyattack class. My feet ankle twisted halfway through the class and I was miserable. However, for some reason, I rested for a bit then decided to continue the class, which went on for an hour. The class is of Cathy, my very first instructor, who has sparks the passion in me for Bodyattack. It was such a hard class and she was awesome (and still bloody awesome now!) back then. I remembered looking at her and thought “How can she screaming and do all those moves at the same time?”. I usually ran out of breath during classes back then.
Bodypump was also hard, my legs are burning and I could not walk after my first time. I remembered being so sore and ache.
I did cardio on the treadmill machine outside of classes and a bit of gym floor abs exercise. My fitness level improves slowly and my body also changes. I can go all the way through classes without being breathless and I also get the moves and techniques better.
I have a talent of mimicking others so I have no problem with techniques in classes.
After doing gym for a few months, my friend dropped out and I suddenly found myself going to gym alone, regardless of sunny or rainy day, regardless of being happy or sad. Gym just cheers me up and gets all the stress out of me.
Then suddenly at one stage, I thought, maybe I could be come one of them, standing on stage and shouting! That thought excites me but scares me at the same time. Me? A guy who’s always shy and introverted, being on there? Shouting and instructing people? No way! Then I went on website just to find out how to become an instructor, and thought it wasn’t too bad. Just need to save a bit of money for the course. I kept the thought for myself
Eventually, after being asked by many people if I ever considering becoming an instructor, I signed up for the course and started training. My life has turned to a different page since this moment.
I started making new friends. I met Dean in the very first class. We have not been talking that much back then (he’s shy haha). However, we are now good friends. He has been helping me through my Bodyattack training still and he is an awesome instructor and teacher.
Thanks so much Dean for continue to support me and giving me good feedbacks/advices.
I also make so many friends recently towards the end of the gym. You guys are such a motivation for me to keep going in my training. I just want to say thank you guys so much for supporting me during my training in class. You guys are awesome people!
I heard the gym would be closed next year at the beginning of the year. However, towards the end, it turns out to be sooner. The last day of the gym was sad but awesome. We had some great classes with Cathy and Jo. It was such a great memory to have. I would never forget the 3 power tracks in Bodyattack Cathy did at the end!
It is getting long, but to sum up, I have met a lot of new people since I have joined gym. This gym is really specially for me because it has changed me in a good way for better. I have become more outgoing and less shy. I slowly expose my inner-self.
All I want to say is thank you all my instructors and friends for being so supportive and caring. Thanks for making me feel like it was truly my second family. It is sad that the gym closes but our journey has not ended yet. We will continue to go on and be even more awesome!
I promise I will continue to train harder and become a great instructor for all of you!
Thank you for changing me for the better, and thanks for the memories! (as per the last track of the last Bodyattack class at Fitness First Highpoint)
(Completed at 10:58pm on Wed 03/12/2014)
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