Cassandra's Life Blog

I was doing some housekeeping and saw the star-trek DVD collections a couple of nites ago. It has been a while since i run through those DVD and decided to watch them with Cassie :)

Yesterday Cassie asked me about the movie and she said she wants to drive the car because the car is her space-ship. Then i asked her why, she then told me there's this captain in the movie and she is really great. (yes, that's her own word) After that, she just jumped up and down and said : "LIKE ME! ".

For those of you whom are not star-trek voyager's fans, the captain in this series is a woman (Janeway). Her team was thrown into the delta-quadrant in the space and she's determine to find a way home for her whole crew. Her leadership and decision making based on integrity has been the plus of the whole series because that's how voyager is totally different from the rest of the star-trek series. I was inspired by the character's will power, her confidence, can-do attitude and her ultimate negotiation power.

Now, i'm inspired by Cassie's self-confidence. i'm sure when i'm her age, i have total confidence about myself too. In fact for Cassie's case here, she think the janeway character is LIKE her ! :)

So, what makes us lost our confidence ? why is it now that the first answer we gave when someone ask us is 'No' especially when it comes to change ? is it because we have fear and lack of confidence to do it ? Something to think about yeah ?

Well, here's something more to share about self-confidence.

“Don’t get typecast in your own life,” he says. “You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.” --Henry Winkler.