- 6:18 PM
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When you are down and you feel like your energy is lost - persevere!
Do not stop from moving and fight that vacuum that is trying to imprison you. We are made up of energy. It is up to us if we want to convert it to negative or positive.
I am one of those individuals that sometimes feel that life is sucking that air out of me. However, I realized that it is not life but me that is conceiving the absence of air. My mental weakness is responsible for the way I perceive life.
I still feel this type of feelings. However, because I know that I am responsible from my self-inflicted tragedy, I can easily recover and start doing positive actions.
Yes we must stop stopping and must always keep on walking no matter what life throws in front of us.
Do not stop from moving and fight that vacuum that is trying to imprison you. We are made up of energy. It is up to us if we want to convert it to negative or positive.
I am one of those individuals that sometimes feel that life is sucking that air out of me. However, I realized that it is not life but me that is conceiving the absence of air. My mental weakness is responsible for the way I perceive life.
I still feel this type of feelings. However, because I know that I am responsible from my self-inflicted tragedy, I can easily recover and start doing positive actions.
Yes we must stop stopping and must always keep on walking no matter what life throws in front of us.
- 9:19 AM
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One way to do this in the workplace is to call and inform your company when you cannot make it in going to the office. Do not make it an excuse not to communicate when you don't feel communicating.
Professionalism is not hard. It is just a way of life that we must practice. and integrate in our system.
Also, if you failed to call and you are reprimanded for such negligence. The best thing to do is say sorry. Professionalism includes humbleness - the willingness to admit mistakes and correct it after admission.
Again, this is not hard we just need to integrate and remind ourselves that if we do this we are practicing professionalism.
Professionalism is not hard. It is just a way of life that we must practice. and integrate in our system.
Also, if you failed to call and you are reprimanded for such negligence. The best thing to do is say sorry. Professionalism includes humbleness - the willingness to admit mistakes and correct it after admission.
Again, this is not hard we just need to integrate and remind ourselves that if we do this we are practicing professionalism.
- 8:21 AM
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All situations are won first in the mind.
If you think defeat, then you are bound to be defeated. This is the reason why you should always embrace the positive side of life.
This is difficult to understand and do specially if defeat and failures are so big to bear.
But nobody says that things are easy.
We just know that the more we control our minds and fill it with positivity the better is our winning chances.
In fact, we have already won when we do this.
So always win the battles in your mind.
If you think defeat, then you are bound to be defeated. This is the reason why you should always embrace the positive side of life.
This is difficult to understand and do specially if defeat and failures are so big to bear.
But nobody says that things are easy.
We just know that the more we control our minds and fill it with positivity the better is our winning chances.
In fact, we have already won when we do this.
So always win the battles in your mind.
- 8:15 AM
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I love the Johnny Walker slogan "Keep on Walking". For me this gives me visions of tenacity and persistence.
Life is never going to be a bed of roses all the time. And accepting it is one of the best move anyone can ever make. After that, Keep on Walking.
If life punches you in the face, keep on walking. If storms come your way, keep on walking.
Life is about us deciding to keep on walking against and around adversity.
Only those that keeps this principle into heart will enjoy the fruits of conquering whatever challenges life throws at us.
So what are you waiting for, KEEP ON WALKING!
Life is never going to be a bed of roses all the time. And accepting it is one of the best move anyone can ever make. After that, Keep on Walking.
If life punches you in the face, keep on walking. If storms come your way, keep on walking.
Life is about us deciding to keep on walking against and around adversity.
Only those that keeps this principle into heart will enjoy the fruits of conquering whatever challenges life throws at us.
So what are you waiting for, KEEP ON WALKING!
- 9:22 PM
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I have spent 10 minutes of
my important day staring and firing words in front of my laptop. Outside the
sky is pitch-black. Earlier it rained and cooled what was once a burning earth.
I cannot ask for the
wonderful interplay of elements as my best day approaches. It is like they are
soldiers with trumpets announcing this important day of my life.
I can hear them. Brave and
sparkling soldiers giving me the best welcome for my best day.
So four decades of
existence. I try to figure out right now if I already have answered the greatest
ontological question. Am I a year better or a year worst?
I try to fathom right now
John Green’s “some lives have better infinities than other’s infinities stuff”.
Yup, I already know me more
than 90%. I am pretty darn sure of that. I already concluded that my life is
like a changing of seasons. Some moments will be better and some moments will
be bad, but I have to be still like the Molave in the deep forest (I hope there
is still a Molave in some of our forests);a Molave that the weather already gave-up
festering because its stillness cannot be moved.
Four decades is a short a
time when you are so busy flying around doing a lot of things. Four decades is a
lot when you try to swim back in the deep and wide ocean of the past.
Right now I am swimming freestyle.
My mind is like a time machine trying to check and countercheck all the best
and worst moments of my life. The hair in my skin is up. It is like the gift of
memory is so powerful that tapping my past and the emotions that goes along
with it is so archaic – full of mysteries. In fact, I am now hearing tribal
chants in my ears.
I hear Earth songs of a
million years.
I now relish past moments of victories that I have: MVP
in a Fiesta Basketball Tournament, T.V. talent in Tele-Aralan ng Kakayahan, Essay
Champion defeating Dela Salle and other private schools, Two Years Best Debater
in College, Writer in elementary, Sports Editor in High School, Associate
Editor and caretaker of the school paper in College, published poem in inquirer,
First yes of a girl, first kiss and the lists goes on. They are like sheep in
my head; they bounce and make funny sounds I can’t help but smile right now in
front of my PC.
I now feel the emptiness of defeat and failure: dumped by
a girl, runner-up in the UN Contest, cut as a member in the elementary group
oratorical contest, benched in a basketball game, unable to dance my high
school crush in the JS Prom, College Suspension, outings and out of town contest
I failed to join because I lack money to be there and the lists goes on.
Defeat and failures are like
shards of broken glass. They stick to your heart and penetrate slowly and
deeply. The pain make you squirm and lose your breath.
But I am still here, alive
and kicking, so they say. I am still here. I am enjoying the sadomasochistic ritual
of feeling the pains of your past as if it is happening right now.
I love myself and I hate
myself.
There are moments that I
bask on the greatness of my actions. There are moments that I despise the
wrongness of my deeds.
I don’t subscribe to clichés.
I am human clichés argggghhh.
However, I guess I am like
others cut in the mold of committing rights and wrongs, like humans (sigh).
It is hard to write all the
stuff in my mind right now. Four decades cannot be summed up by few pages; most
especially, if I am tussling with sleepiness in every click of the keyboard.
The sky is pitch-black. I am
alone. Everybody in the house is asleep. It is my birthday. I am happy and I am
sad. The two emotions are like a gin and water. I have to drink both to get
high. Alas, I am not a drinker so to identify myself with drunkards will be
inaccurate.
I guess being inebriated is
a romantic approach to life. Albeit sometimes I admit it is also a sign of
cowardice.
In my four decades of
existence, I just know that I made a mark but I still have to make a mark. In my
four decades of existence, I believe that in order to wake-up every day with
energy you have to feel LOVE.
LOVE - this word makes life
like a hammock that swings back and forth or waves that goes back and forth,
both are soothing to the soul.
I know a lot and don’t know
a lot. It’s a Faustian Tragedy that I have learned to accept.
I am forty . They say life
begins at forty. But this belief is rubbish. Life begins every day. There is no
age in beginning and facing life over and over again.
Life for me now is to show
others that I love them in small moments like the sachet of shampoos. Love is an action word that reaching this age
and living this long all infinities must subscribe to – I will be one of the
torch bearers of Love.
As in L.ove O.thers V.ital to my E.xistence.
- 10:28 AM
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A rubber band
stretched to its full elasticity will snap. A dam forced to its pressure
capacity will break. Cold water heated to the brink will boil. On the other
hand, hot water place in a cold storage will freeze. These are samples of
threshold. A universal law all of us are governed.
Sadly, we forget about this rule of threshold.
Most live our
lives helplessly. Most do not swim against the tide. Actually, we do not need
to swim against the tide and exert too much effort to win against the tide. We
can use a boat, a motor boat at that to go against the tide. If only we knew
that we must be out of the box so that we can carry the box!
We forget about the Rule
of Threshold – the rule that says everything has a limit. If we keep this into heart
then all problems are NOTHING.
Why?
Simple, there
will be no person that will fall on the side of the road. There will be no person
that will turn its back on the problem no matter how GARGANTUAN the problem is.
Heck, there may even no words like Quit, Give-up, Surrender and other related words
in the dictionary.
Still don’t
get it?
If we know
threshold, we will be obligated to keep on pushing forward and against
challenges, having a peace of mind that these challenges cannot break us
because it has limits. It has threshold!
Humans are
the most powerful creature in the universe. I am always reminded of the Vitruvian Male – the symbol in the Renaissance
Era, this is how powerful man is. The single creature that can hold
dominion over the world (I just hope responsibly and with respect to other
creatures of Earth).
Alas,
majority do not realize their true nature. I see them in the streets, in the
dark alleys of our decadent cities. I see them in clubs and other nightspots. I
event see them in great families. I see them bedraggled, their spirit sagging
evident by their lonely eyes and dropping shoulders. Sometimes, they even tried
to hide that lost spirit but their smiles betray them.
Such is the
disease of people that feel they are helpless against the problems and
challenges that beset them.
Robert
Schuller said, “Tough Times Never Last, Tough
People Do!”
This is proof
that THRESHOLD is true. This is proof that IMPOSSIBLE is nothing. This is proof
that YOU are destined to CLAIM YOUR DESTINY.
Just take UNRELENTING ACTION until YOUR
CHALLENGES explode to bits and pieces because it had reached its THRESHOLD.
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