K drama high

The giddy feeling you get on finishing a K drama and your heart is still in the K drama universe of idealistic fantasy and feet are floating just above the earth  :) 

Step goal

When I fail at something ,
My instinct is to immediately make my goal smaller. Ah I am not good at "This", I am not good enough for "This" nice/Big/Risky/Ambitious goal, I have to settle for "That" easier/less riskier/blander option instead. Fixed mindset! I am ashamed, I dont want to look like I am failing, so chose an easier option and pass instead  ( At this point, I want to rant about how irritating and wrong this is and how I am a self sabotaging B etc, but all that is again coming from Fixed mindset, so I wont, even tho I kinda did :-P )

Instead - I add a step goal, which is the easier/less riskier/blander option , but This is the interim goal, This is only a step towards reaching my Original goal  Growth Mindset! I am not ready for This Yet!  I am not embarrassed to Aim high! I am not settling, I am learning and growing and not flinching from Hard work and many tries and failures and many more steps than expected may be!  

hobby classes

Hobbies seem to be a childhood thing.  100% of the kids these days are sent to classes, 2-3 sports, 1-2 art. Total of 5 classes a week. Also these classes change with age, so an average middleclass kid would have taken classes for Tennis, Football, Swimming, Skiing, Classical Music , instruments , Painting , Drawing , Martial Arts , Drama, Dance, etc. In the US of A the collages also ask the kids what all extra curricular activities they have done.

I find that even tho the kids do all this, Adults dont seem to have many hobbies. It is very rare to see an adult with even one hobby. Also many of these adults had hobbies until they got into a job, even those from the generation which didnt go to classes "I used to paint in school, I used to write poetry when I was in college, short stories.. " yeah... Does life take over..? Is it they got to busy... or its just the interests changed?

So going back, What is the purpose of all those classes and trainings ? Why put ur kid thru all this when You yourself doesnot do any of it as an adult?  Is it an exploration to find the right hobby? what the kid really likes? Is it possible that this generation which had so many trainings will  continue with them as adult? Or Is it infact the expectation - that they will stop this as an adult?These are things u do as a child to pass time, to have fun  to help with other grown up things later? Like play in animals helps them hunt when they grow up. Is it just a trend and peer pressure and FOMO thing which doesn't have any inherent reason?

Exceptions are : Sports among men seems to be the most sticky, some men do play the sports they learnt (formally informally as a kid)
Singing among women
Reading - but that does not need training
Baking / Gardening - common hobbies but this is not what they learnt when they were a kid.
Photography -
Hmm As I compile this list, I think lot more people of my generation want to have a hobby and pursue something ....

I am offcourse an exception. I think its got to do with being Neuro ATypical. https://www.quora.com/Are-grown-people-with-Asperger%E2%80%99s-still-childlike
I do have a lot of hobbies and interests compared to a regular adult, but then again like the children I take 100s of classes but they seem to be for fun/to pass time , very few are sticky.

Also most of my interests are my mothers - I refused to go to classes, music and dance or sports .They say with kids its not what u say but what u do. She had many hobbies - Stitching clothes, painting, gardening, rangoli - Those are my hobbies too, except rangoli.

BTW this was triggered by me searching for some class and finding most results for kids classes! Grrr! 

Vit D

Ever wondered how animals make Vit D? 
Humans make vit D when our skin is exposed to sun light right?  So Animals and birds who have  fur and feathers? How do they make Vit D? Do they have diets which are so rich in Vit D already?

from this very interesting  page 

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/vitaminD/vitamindjm.htmThe presence of fur in animals or feathers in birds blocks UV light from reaching the skin. So in these cases, the creatures’ skin secrete oils or waxes which coat and impregnate its fur or feathers. Sunlight then interacts with the oil and produces vitamin D, which is then ingested by the animal or bird when it grooms itself.

not only that apparently the Vit D tablets that we take comes from Sheep wool! 

Did also assume that the first humans were probably black? me too! Because today people in Africa are black and Humans came from Africa so they probably looked like how people look today! Right!

But Then someone clever pointed out that underneath the fur all animals are basically pink ( i.e white :P ) So the earliest ancestors of humans when they were just about losing the fur were probably pink skinned? so ancient humans were probably white!??!

Wiki says skin pigmentation evolved 1.2 million years ago and we can say Home Sapiens were probably dark skinned and our assumption was probably correct :-P Still it is all very interesting how our assumptions colour our beliefs.

How you interpret the world depends on your own opinion of yourself ...

While others see cats as selfish, I see them as Independent , just as I see myself :-)

while you were sleeping ...

... computing has moved on to whole new levels of ingenuity, innovation and whole new world of technologies :-)
Newly awakened me ( thanks to growth mindset )  is feeling like Sleeping beauty :D
#livingUnderARock