Retrospect 2015 - Satisfied?

Always question yourself. Did you say you were going to do something? Have you done it?

Results, not plans, make the difference. So how did you do this year?

Last year there were two; this is 2015:

• 4 hour marathon finish - 98%
• Maintain card making skills - 90%
• Piano playing - 70% (scroll down)
• Comfortable in Chinese - 5%
• Playable demo of game - 0% (okay, around 200 hours of the 320 hours had to be thrown away, but I learnt a lot)

All percentages are my own evaluation of the level I aimed for this year.

It's somewhat alright. I would prefer to have made that 4 hour mark, but not reaching it is a good way to keep away from boasting.

Card making wasn't a difficult goal - mostly just keep practising so that you don't lose it. I liked the way some of the ambigrams turned out:

What I enjoyed most was piano playing. Not so much the practising - that part's always tedious - but you have to do the part you don't like to get to the part you like.

Chinese is still a work in progress. I actually would enjoy Japanese more - I watched quite a bit of anime this year - but Chinese would be more useful at work.



In terms of developing my game, the tool I was relying on for dependency management had to be discontinued, and so the time spent learning and converting all the code to use it isn't very useful anymore. However, I learnt a lot, so it's not completely wasted.

Done with this year? Yes.

Satisfied? No.

Ready for next year? Yes.

謙卑

如果謙卑是不吹噓自己的地位和成就，要是想談論這些主题，行嗎？如果是他人提出的，我們應該如何應對呢？我們應該稱之為正常，低调，還是避免談話？

人們天生喜歡讚美有成就或善良的人。享受他人的表彰或獎勵行嗎？聖經含有許多相關這些問题的段落。
耶穌没有擺出神的地位誇口，但是他也没否認它。當他確認地位時，他的回答短。路加福音第22回70至71句說：

他們說：“那麼你是神的兒子嗎？”耶穌說：“你們說了，我是。”
他們說：“我們還需要甚麼見證呢？我們親自聽見他所說的話了。”

關於善意，馬太福音6回1至2句說：

施捨不可張揚
你們小心，不要在眾人面前行你們的義，讓他們看見；如果這樣，就得不到你們天父的賞賜。因此你施捨的時候，不可到處張揚，好像偽君子在會堂和街上所作得一樣，以博取眾人的稱讚。我實在告訴你們，他們已經得了他們的賞賜。

我們没有義務匿名，但是需要記取所有的榮譽應該給與主。馬太福音5回16句說：

照樣，你們的光也應當照在人前，讓他們看見你的好行為，又頌讚你們在天上的父。

然而擺出謙卑的行為很難，因為我們渴望獲得他人的榮譽。