Body, mind and soul. I was thinking, if we can do a little bit of each three of them every day,
how fulfilled would we be? Notice I didn't say happy, because quite frankly, what is happiness?
But maybe as we grow older we feel a sense of duty, responsibility, doing something and taking
care of something makes you feel good, because, it's what you're supposed to be doing right? It's
the journey that you take that makes you happy, not the destination, it's what we find along the
way that keeps us going, so does that mean we will never be happy? That's why I don't know what
happiness means really, it sounds quite sad huh?

Body, mind and soul...

To do something for each of them, what does it mean?

To do something for the body, what I can think of is to take your body through a discipline, maybe
not as harsh a discipline as you think, but maybe just a brisk walk of 20 mins, doing some light
running, getting the heart beat faster, sweat a little, maybe a feeling like you're alive, riding
a bike and letting the wind wake you up! Often time for me, I resort to pushups and stretches, I
try to do some stretches first, knowing the pushups will tighten my muscles, and then more
stretches afterward. I know it's very important to keep your body balanced, thus eating as well,
I've cut down on drinking soda, and over-eating, and thus try to drink lots of water and 100%
juice. But I will have some coke on the occasion of going out, just a lil reward for myself. And
I try to eat more veggies as well, it's still a hard adjustment, but I'm getting better at it.
Also I try to fill my appetite to about 75%, to the point that I'm not hungry, and feel pretty
good that I'm not over-stuffing myself, and if I have left-overs, save it for the next meal! I
feel as I get older, I can't do 110% over-eating anymore, metabolism has slowed for me, and I must
control myself. I feel now that it's even more important to keep my body healthy, that does mean
more sleep as well.

To do something for your mind, now I'm no expert at this, you can ask anyone I know, they know I'm
the least qualified as a brainy. But I do think materials that stimulate your thoughts, challenges
your thinking, makes you dig harder and possibly makes you fear of making a mistake is good! I'm
not sure what other people do, maybe read a book, look up the thesaurus, do cross-word puzzles,
plan a mini home project, thinking up a recipe for cooking. As for me, I feel the least I can do
is do some puzzle on my Nintendo DS, watching some DVDs that inspires you, which I just saw
the "Peaceful Warrior" that prompted me to write this following blog, all these things that
promotes thought generating are good!

I do try and research some photoshop and photography books so I can work on my creative side as
well. Sometimes it's easy to find answers because there's only one right answer, but to create and
to design something artistically, there's no one right way to get to it. I really want to improve
my photography, and I know this is an on-going process for me. What is my object when I create an
image? I think the ultimate one is to create/generate an emotion when someone sees my image. I
wonder if that would be the ultimate goal for a photographer? And also to concisely convey what
the message you are trying to depict/illustrate through ur image I suppose.

I do also try and learn one word each day, some days it's successful, somedays it's not, but at
least I subscribe to dictionary.com and they do send one word to me each day. Also been trying to
learn more Chinese, esp knowing that Dad is the master of Mandarin, it shames me that I'm nowhere
near as good as he is. But it's never too late to learn so I try and keep at it. He bought me a
English-Chinese book, in which the story is written in both languages, so I try my hardest first
to read the Mandarin a few times, when I figure that I get the gist of it, read the English to
confirm what I know. I know it's slow going, but at least I'm learning, and in this case, both
languages at once!

And of course writing is a good mind-stimulating process, to conjure up sentences and ways to
describe to others is definitely a good brain exercise, so do something worth writing about or
write something that's worth doing!

Now comes the hardest part...

To do something for your soul each day...

for this I feel like I have no answer to, I can BS all about the body and mind, but for the soul,
I draw a blank. What reaches our soul? Our emotions? Our happiness? Our love? And if I haven't
define what happiness is, how can we do something for the soul?

We do things everyday because we love what we're doing? Or do we do things everday because we want
to keep doing what we love and so we can dream our dreams even if that's all it boils down to.
What does our soul need? That's the question to ask if we want to do something for it right? Does
our soul need to be understood, to be heard, to be able to reach for help, to admit to absolute
vulnerability, to be loved? If our soul needs to be loved, how do we do that? After thinking about
a bit more...knowing this isn't something that I can come up with on a night's thinking....

I can only come up with that what the soul needs is not something you can give yourself. What your
soul needs has to be given to you by someone or some other entity. Self-justification isn't a
process that the soul can persist through for eternity.

I shall visit this question and hopefully have better answers soon... for now, you can think of
your own way to feed your soul.