When a song you love reminds you of someone

I hate it how sometimes, things you value reminds you of someone that held a place important in your heart at one point but for one reason or another, this person leaves and they sort of taint that valuable thing of yours. Do you get what I mean?

It's like a song you love so much but it reminds you of someone that has left. Or something you did together but now that someone has left. It feels like that song you love so much, or that something you like doing, maybe walking at the beach, or even going for a run, has now become something to remind you of the pain or the sadness you are going through.

I know one day, that song, that place, or that little something I love doing will be mine again, and that memory that was associated with it will no longer have power to affect me. But during that transition, during that transition, it's sad.

My hero

So recently I went for a workshop hosted by my university on how to get task done and one of the question I got asked was, who's your hero? Who do you aspire to be like?

And my answer is, the people around me. It's not just a single soul, but is the multitude that makes up my social circle: my family, my friends, my colleagues, my mentors and even my students.

You see, everyone has a lesson to offer, an admirable trait, an experience to share.  It is through these people, that I see, learn and mould myself to become what I pray, is a more ideal me. I have learnt things like:

humility - being willing to humble yourself to acknowledge things you don't know and learn;

kindness - taking the time and effort to really care about people's wellbeing and following up on them;

selfless - choosing to pick up that piece of garbage you see lying on the ground and not act ignorant;

optimism - to always look at things from another point of view when your current view is seemingly bleak;

generosity - being generous in your compliments and being genuine at it;

These are just the little preview of what heroes around me are portraying and I admire them from the depths of my heart! And so, I hope to honour them by dedicating this post to all of them! Thank you so much for being my hero!!