Life's Lessons

Some of my reflections over the past months :)

1. Do not just love life, LIVE IT.

2. When one thinks that he can only do so much, he is quite saying that he cannot do more, thus going any further is a slim possibility.

3. A sudden loss of a loved one is very difficult to bear. It will surely be easy for others to claim that they have an idea of one's grief for the loss, when in fact no one will ever understand what exactly the kind of pain being went through by the person.

4. There is more to happiness why a person engages and unceasingly finds means to heed her passion.

5. Heeding the call of your passion isn't always easy.

6. Each one is capable of doing something worthwhile for others. Whatever good we share, how little it may seem, it can have a huge impact to the ones who were directly benefited by the gesture of kindness.

7. Helping is never a matter of competition. For the ones who think it is, they may see the act as more than a sincere extending or sharing of oneself.

8. There will come a point that we are too much comfortable of the routines that we do and that the mere thought of it makes us feel uncomfortable.

9. There must be a reason enough to leave one's comfort zone; if there isn't, I am not sure if anyone will dare to do so.

10. To consciously escape the thought of death, denying such, is like living life partly blind.

11. At times, we calim that what we do is our passion, but how come it does not feel right?

12. Our points do not make us winners rather it's how we deliver them, or how we handle the criticisms directed to us because of our stand.

13. It's not our big brains that can pull us through life's adversities, it's more dependent on our big hearts.

14. Unless everyone in the group will be open-minded, we can never have a dialogue in the real sense of the word.

15. Power has been allowed by others to drastically change who they are, but kudos to those who have shaped power according to the values they live out.

16. It is unfair for God to be put inside people's little box; and I firmly believe that for people to act like 'little' gods is a worse, if not the WORST, kind of insult.

17. We are shaped by others, only if we consciously allow them to.

18. Traveling is a way of exploring the world, and within.

19. We travel for various reasons, and we are adveturous and risk-takers to relatively varying extents.

20. Relationship is not a sort of pass or ticket for one to have power or ownership over the other, it's more of a commitment that fosters the 'bringing out the best' in each one involved.

21. We should not allow losing control over the sole person we should be in control of - OURSELVES.

22. If we push ourselves too hard, tendency is, ourselves will get back at us, too hard as well.

23. Savor the moments you are alone because to some others, being alone can mean a luxury they cannot afford.

24. If we only allow ourselves to be keen about the interconnectedness of our encounters, past and present, we'd be in awe to realize that after all, coincidence is just a word - nothing more, nothing less.

25. Rationalizations will always come in handy if we wanted to avoid our responsibilities, what we ought to do. Just when we thought we have outwitted others, we soon realize that it's ourselves that we have cheated on and not really others.

26. We begin to fret and feel pressured every time we make the world's standards as our own.

27. Some delays are because of the inevitable circumstances we are in, or because of the circumstances we have consciously chosen oursleves to be in.

28. It is unfair to blame others for who we are now. We have all the faculties to rise above every difficult situation we have faced; the decision to become better or bitter has never been dependent to others, even to the one who maligned us or that one who inflicted us with much pain.

29. Dreams do not happen in a snap, we work for it, every single day we are alive.

30. When all esle fails, LOVE :*