This week so far has been not many things happening, I’m still working on the Month of the Military certificate, SIP, and going back and forth with Vincia, the library manager at Tate Streatham Library.

I can feel myself that I’m getting used to being in the office, it’s a nice feeling that I can be myself with everyone, and I’m not as scared or timid compare to when I first started the placement. However, on the other hand, this makes me on the contrary, fear if I’m not pushing myself further. Perhaps, I’m not trying hard at this point than I should have…

I had an interesting conversation with my DPS colleague, Ama, during lunch break. As usual, I was on about some nonsense gibberish and she was bearing with me. Today we talked about our perspective on marriage and naturally we spoke about our parents and their relationship. Obviously, I can’t go into details as it’s personal, but what we realised was how childhood shapes our thinking thus form our values of life.

This fact is not necessarily remarkable or new idea but from that conversation, I was discern of greater impact it really had on myself.

Then, I became to wonder going beyond from personal values, but to social justice, how we’re influenced by our own world = surroundings. Everyone has their own world, our childhood, culture, interest are different which is natural. But at least with me, we tend to not realise how biased we are with our experience, and though we think we’re empathic to others but it doesn’t indicate we truly be able to see in their shoes.

This was something that hit me at the lunch time and to this day.