Day 79!!

It's been a fantastic week!! The sun's shining and I'm now over a fifth of the way through the challenge!! The T-shirts have made life just so interesting on an everyday level.

A common question that has been asked of me is this: Why are you doing it? What is the purpose of it all? Without a background, this might seem to be a tad nonsensical, perhaps a bit wacky and if you read my introduction on the left, you'll see that I thought so too. Ultimately I think that we Challengers all have our individual reasons for joining. Certainly I've been growing as a person through this journey, and a funny thing that I've found myself coming to wish that everyone wore a T-shirt with their name on it.  Even more interesting is that I get a lot of responses from people saying that they were 'glad that they didn't have to worry about forgetting my name' if they saw me next time. It makes me wonder about the function of a name and associated role that it plays in a society - They're so important why?

The paradoxical thing about life is that we are individuals, and yet we're all interconnected (for you scientists out there: everything is made of atoms :)). We celebrate individuality, and we also celebrate unity.  As a person, it so difficult to realise that. So really, my reason for wearing the shirts is this: It's because I seek to connect with others. In wearing the t-shirt, I am showing that I'm human. Me without the frills - and if you know my name, perhaps we can be one step closer to forming a connection. :)

As for this week, a silently hilarious moment for me was going to a function with AIESEC and being given a 'name tag' to wear on top of my shirt. It was the strangest feeling, and a entertaining element of the event included seeing people trying to squint at the name on that tag before realising what was written on the shirt......

So that's all from me for now! Biomed is churning along now -  I've calculated that I probably save 2 hours a week from just cutting down on my dressing time. :)


Live.

Every moment :)

~ Carmen