Life by Sar

When I was taking Philosophy in Grade 13, I remember having to write an essay with extremely vague instructions. Essentially, our teacher Mr. Smith, instructed us to write a 3 page philosophical paper. This was his exact and only instruction. I swear the first question asked was, "Mr. Smith, what's a philosophical paper?" But I suppose, that's exactly what he wanted us to discover on our own?! Anyways, that essay was one of the reasons why I got early acceptance into Waterloo. It was my first and unfortunately the last time I ever received 101% on something. The bonus 1% was given out to students who impressed Mr. Smith. I felt really special because I was the only one. (All Bragging rights reserved for life) Aside from this wicked grade and early acceptance in to loo, I truly learned a life long lesson. Like most students in high school, I started working on my assignment the night before it was due. I spent most of the night researching on Yahoo looking up ...

Dear Readers, A famous Cuban-French writer named Anais Nin once wrote, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect”. For the past year, this blog has been my way of channeling thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Writing is an outlet for me. It is a way for me to rationalize my feelings, conceptualize my thoughts and shape my perceptions. In business development, I use process flow maps to capture the life journey of an input transpiring to an output or result. This visual allows me to isolate the specific output so that I can investigate, study, and track its journey. By the end of it, I have a clear and concise visual of the entire process, a process that I can then tweak, refine, and optimize. In my personal life, “the pen has been the tongue of my mind” and this blog has been a journey holding an account of various inputs materializing to my present life. Writing has helped me understand my thoughts and improve my communication with me and those around me....