Self-Ashtualisation

   Whenever I shared my life progress with her, a mentor, keenly interested in my growth, would often respond, ‘Your learning curve is huge.’ As a highly sensitive individual, I would often analyse and reanalyse the meaning of those words. What I have found over the years is that even now, my views on what they mean keep changing, depending on what’s happened in my life and how I’ve responded to those events. For instance, if I feel down in the dumps when something, for want of a better word, bad happens, I would perceive ‘your learning curve is huge’ as extremely patronising and condescending, the way a cocky adult might say, ‘Grow up and buck up, kiddo,’ or ‘You’re still young and inexperienced. You know nothing,’ to a child or a younger adult. Occasionally, I would even regard the sentencing sentence (yes, me and my daft pun again) as a backhanded compliment, something along the lines of, 'Ooh! You've learnt an unbelievable lot for your age, haven't you?' When some

Hi everyone, I just edited my blog title and URL today – simply because I thought Self-Ashtualisation sounded catchier and reflected me more authentically now #Growth – so I thought I'd mark this occasion with a new blogpost. In honour of my blog title, I thought nothing would be more apt than for me to reflect on and remind myself of who I am and have become, as well as my purposes and aspirations. Therefore, here are eleven random facts about me (Why eleven? Read on to find out.):   1)     If I were to write a memoir or an autobiography, it would definitely be titled Self-Ashtualisation . 2)     My top five favourite beverages are coffee, milk tea, hot chocolate, apple tea and mint tea in that order, though the only drink I can’t live without consuming daily is coffee. 3)     On a typical day, I read from 5pm-8pm with dinner break in between and then from 11.11pm-11.45pm before bedtime at 12am. Sometimes, if I can afford it, I’ll read from 9am-8pm and 11.11pm-11.45pm befor