My Covid19 Mirror by Teel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19 A journey between me and Covid19 What did I see myself in the Covid19 mirror? en-us 2020-09-10 09:48:19 UTC 2024-11-28 05:29:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 2020 Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750262026 I have planed to mark this 2020 unforgettable, and all screwed up because of you. 

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]]> 2020-09-16 02:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750262026 A gift Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750279462 Off day - yeah 
Online working - yeah 
Online studying - yeah 
No traffic jam, no deadlines, no.. no .. and nothing at all. 
I thought this was a temporarily cool gift at that time to BREAK, but it was a Pandora box. 
"A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse."
Such a gift to start our relationship. 

Credit: giphy.com]]> 2020-09-16 02:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750279462 Relationship 101 Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750304043 We all passed a honeymoon period, which I am sick of him - Covid19. We cannot live together just by staying home and watching Netflix. It's like the end for me to have this relationship. I need an Exit to save me. 

Credit: giphy.com]]> 2020-09-16 02:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/750304043 Murphy's law Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769164188 "(s)he" teaches me that COVID 19 happening is just a matter of time. It can go wrong, badly in either COVID 19 way or my way. Of course, COVID 19 attacked me worse than my way did. Acceptance to know this is just the beginning of the series of "2020" behind. Almost 10/14 laws in Murphy's law apply perfectly in COVID 19 case. Instead of saying "if" to hope and wait, I will take action asap to welcome another worse level upcoming. 

Credit: Reddit ]]> 2020-09-22 17:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769164188 The Platform Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769232961 This is the mirroring time for all of us to reflect who we are. Panic buying exists in this "4.0" era with surprising reason during social distancing time. 1st come, 1st serve to apply in the market, but it also reflects the gap between "rich" and "poor" people. If you have enough resources, you can buy more, store more and feel "safe" more, or have to wait and collect the "leftover items" in case it is affordable. It is not only in the grocery matter but also in health care, especially. The Platform is streaming at the "right" time that same as what we are facing in real life, in different ways. 

| "The Platform is a 2019 Spanish science fiction -horror film and stream on Netflix. A slab of food descends floor by floor in prison. The inmates above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.". | - Wikipedia and Netflix introduction. 

It teaches me how "unfair" in society and how materialistic affects us. We cannot deny that money saves us and helps us have an "easy" life. It causes more gap in the society than before, but it also can take as an "opportunity" to narrow that gap, from our attempt.

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]]> 2020-09-22 17:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769232961 Red or Blue Pill https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769400275 "The red pill and blue pill is a meme representing a choice between taking either a "red pill" that reveals an unpleasant truth or taking a "blue pill" to remain in blissful ignorance. The terms are directly derived from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix." - Wikipedia. 

It is a choice either facing the difficulties of COVID 19 or ignoring to eat instant noodles for the rest of the time. We thought that we could have theses choices at the beginning for a temporarily time. We all take the red pill on different levels. 

Nevertheless, we still can believe this is a "plot" of politics or just a natural thing. The choice is yours, isn't it? 

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]]> 2020-09-22 17:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/769400275 Free or Captive Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957405394 [ ] is an electric pole, looking at the root seems to be free, getting free of trouble. But on the top, there are so many wires, so tied like a packed net. Even if it collapses, it still cannot fall down entirely. Life is something more complicated than not dying - surviving!

Credit: Google image search with "cột điện" keyword. ]]> 2020-11-24 18:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957405394 Negative or Positive? Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957430275 The attached picture below is the search results from Instagram - a photo-sharing platform. I was impressed with IG initially with tons of flashy, well-taken photos with luxuries and happy moments. Becoming a user, I understand that is just the tip of the iceberg; it is still a social network application. After this massive results search comes up in just a second, I wonder what is in each post? 

What did people say about Covid? Is it the same as mine? Will people celebrate of day-off seasons? Will they complain about the last penny on the wallet? 

What do I want to see? 
Do I want to view the positive post to cheer me up or helping my peer-pressure increase? Am I comfortable to keep seeing the negative vibe posts? Many questions with just a search, but first, what is my intention to search it? 

I reflect on my user experience on these social apps. What do I expect to see? Am I follow or unfollow it because of its content or do it as curious or a habit? 

Credit: Trinh Ly ]]> 2020-11-24 18:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957430275 FriENDs still END? Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957482371 During the pandemic and social isolation, the need to connect with friends increasing, and the thirst of human being warm. How many friends do we need online, offline, in life? 

What are friends and why we cannot live alone? Everything becomes apparent during this Covid occasion. Thousands of friends online seem like a lot and can seek help anytime to fulfill the news feed. It will bring many opportunities via work, study, memes, story, etc., with their point of view. Does that include the inter-being "function"? 

Artificial life makes everything easy during this situation, but does that affect backward? When we get used to the online working, living lifestyle, we don't require more to get back to everyday life. Will that "normal life" still be every day at it is in the beginning? I guess no because that is impossible to bring back the crumpled paper. 

Covid reminds back of the nature of family and friends. The family ends at ILY | I love you? Does friend end at the END? Is it true? 

In the end, we still need to send a friend request; please accept it. But first, we need to take a look at your wall and consider our mutual friends to admit it, right? How to build friendships online or make new virtual friends via this occasion? Does it only last online and due when the pandemic ease? 

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\ do we need to put credit for ourselves work, as we "work on it" no matter what in the end? 8)) / ]]> 2020-11-24 18:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957482371 What do you want? Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957578314 People scream of isolation and the need for human connection. But what did they do to the online meetup? 

Camera: off ✅
Microphone: off ✅

I am in that "they" mentioned above because of many reasons, a.k.a excuses. The human being is getting used to scream for their need but lacks the effort to work. We wish, but we hard to put ourselves out to work for it, because you know what you know, right. 
The new type of zoom meeting reflects another perceptive of personal branding and draws a clear comfort zone picture. What do we want others to see us? 
How many "face" self version do we have? It is easy to be an authentic self when you are at home, especially alone. That is time to have self-reflection, but that never have a chance to reveal publicly. What if the comfort zone is good enough to live, that does not require to overcome that zone? 

Society encourages other people to reveal their faces and "turn on" their camera. Will they ensure having no judgment, labeling to that figure, diversity? Does it have to come back with the owner, requiring them to take care of themselves well -> to guarantee the well-care performance every time? 

Why trying to hide that honesty? 

Photo credit: Funny Or Die. ]]> 2020-11-24 19:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957578314 The Elephant In The Room Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957676439 Definition: a significant problem or controversial issue that is present but avoided as a subject for discussion because it is more comfortable to do so.

A significant problem: unemployed status, lousy grade, social media addicted, no income, no food, no social connection, no friend, deadlines, mental illness, depression, loneliness, family war, etc. 

Present: now and now, daily routine back and forth from the bedroom to the toilet, bank account balance, a reminder from teachers, alarm, health condition, screen time, the mirror, etc. 

Avoid: keep replaying it, waiting for better news, praying for a miracle, blame for the situation, posting a complaint on social media, scrolling another day on the phone, laying off the body in instant noodles, bad habits, covering the mirror, etc. 

Comfortable: sleeping time, napping time, easy-going work on phone, saying positive words, promising for another chance, keep silence, close the eyes, etc. 

That elephant is in every room, anywhere belongs to anyone's stories. We hard to admit it, to be honest with it and ourselves, lack of courage to change. Is it same as the learning time, while we first need preparation for the to have the self-honesty to admit when we're wrong and the courage to change? Don't we need many skills to do better, better equipment in the first step when we have not to get ready yet? 

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]]> 2020-11-24 19:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/957676439 How much of me there is for me? Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/963958385 Everything can change after a second; we are hard to keep up with the stream. The fear of missing out is always inside of me. I want to learn more, know more, do more, and more. But I lack time and ability to do everything and make it pause forever in some ways. The scariest thing is I am losing myself in this path, as I keep running but hardly breathing through it or reflecting it. During Covid 19, the pandemic puts more pressure for us to work more, do more in replace of the isolation time, replace of many free months. 

I am stilling working, moving but it seems like lack of motivation, lively sense in its move. How to listen to me, understand it and inter-being with it to bring back the present? 

I am spreading in everywhere trying to balance its corners. It seems like super to able to do anything, say yes to everything, and also put massive pressure into my shoulders. 

Does Covid push me to become like this or I choose to be like myself today? Is it right to always pushing yourself to be better? Did I poison myself with many wish, to-do list, bucket list, happy list, etc.? Maybe it is a part of the toxic positive that I consume every day. That is the process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.
 
Credit: Liana Finck | https://lianafinck.com]]> 2020-11-26 17:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/963958385 The closest friend Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/966953476 by insta @psan5630]]> 2020-11-28 11:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/966953476 Break up this relationship? Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/968942788 In the beginning, I stated it as one of the relationships with many ups and downs. Up to this point, the downs period seems to manipulate the entire time. Should we break it up to find a better relationship? It reminds me of Schrodinger's imaginary thought experiment. 

In Schrodinger's imaginary experiment, you place a cat in a box with a tiny bit of radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance decays, it triggers a Geiger counter, which causes a poison or explosion to be released that kills the Cat. Now, the decay of the radioactive substance is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This means that the atom starts in a combined state of "going to decay" and "not going to decay." If we apply the observer-driven idea to this case, there is no conscious observer present (everything is in a sealed box), so the whole system stays as a combination of the two possibilities. The Cat ends up both dead and alive at the same time. [1]

One of the standard interpretations of this thought experiment is: if you consider what is in the secret room as knowledge and the person who opens the door of the room is a seeker for knowledge. No matter what, the seeker of knowledge can not ever find an utterly objective experience - "objective" in the sense of not dependent on the seeker herself. We, regardless of status, will always contribute to what we obtained - "you eat what you are." Schrödinger's Cat also reminds us that everything we receive is right to the time and only in that time for "a reason." To get as close to objective knowledge as possible, after all, it will not be more hunting better lands, a better education, new systems but increasingly changing ourselves to interact with knowledge in an interdisciplinary and sensitive method. 

If I replace "knowledge" with a blank space to fill out any elements, will it still apply? I think so. 
We hard to find a better place until we learn to change ourselves and appreciate what we have right now. Stop creating conditions for Happiness. Because Happiness is here and now, said by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. 

[1] Source: [1] Baird, C. S. (2013). What did Schrodinger's Cat experiment prove? https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/07/30/what-did-schrodingers-cat-experiment-prove/



]]> 2020-11-29 16:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/968942788 I Choose to Live in Love Teelteel https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/973222210 Wish to not only expressing love out but also loving the imperfection inside. ]]> 2020-11-30 20:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/teelteel/MyCovid19/wish/973222210