Show Appreciation

Appreciate what you have while you still have them. Oftentimes we tend to take for granted of the things that are around us. We are always trying to look only at the closed door when there are so many windows still open for us to venture into. This type of attitude will lead us nowhere. Only when we show gratitude will good things come into our lives.

How many times did we show appreciation that we have a roof over our heads? Some people are homeless. How many times did we thank our spouses? Some people have to sleep alone on their beds. How many times did we say thanks to God? He is looking over our shoulders. How many times did we tell our subordinates that we appreciate the work that they do for us? Some people have to do everything themselves. How many times did we thank our parents? Their love for us is eternal. I could go on forever. There are endless things to show appreciation for.

Don't overlook the blessings in your life. We have been given so many gifts. We have a home to come to. We have cooks. We are living close to our parents and all our relatives and brothers and sisters. Only when you learn to be grateful for all the blessings in your life will you find utmost happiness. Don't look at the bad things but look only at the good things. Appreciate everything. Be grateful about everything.

My life is good. I should appreciate it more and more. My business is good. I should enjoy it more. The future is so uncertain. We should say thanks before it's too late.

Take a walk around the neighborhood. Reflect on all the things in your life and look at all the people around you. Some have to struggle so hard to survive and to make ends meet. Life is so hard nowadays. Making a living is such a struggle. Money doesn't come easily. In the end, it always boils down to monetary values. We need money to live in this materialistic world.

Your life is much easier than millions of other people. Think of the people who have to leave their family to go to another country to earn a living. Their hearts break but they had no choice. Working at their hometown wasn't enough to provide adequate income for the whole family's comforts any more. Much to their dismay, they had to leave the comforts of their homes and venture into a foreign nation to earn for the family.

My whole point is, you may find that your life is tough sometimes, you may even feel like giving up. Take a look at those whose life is harder than yours. They still find the strength to go on. They never gave up so shouldn't you.

Don't assume that those things will still be there tomorrow.

Sometimes when you overlook the good things in your life, look again. Even a television set in your room is something to be grateful for.

Tear Down Those Walls!

While it's true that familiarity breeds contempt, unfamiliarity also carries the same effect. When you don't acquaint yourself with a certain someone you tend to draw your own conclusions regarding that person's behavior. You could be making negative assumptions to a fairly trivial conduct. You tend to make assumptions regarding how he behaves according to what you see. Most of the times, however, what you see is not what is. What you see may be an act he puts on to hide something else. What you see may just be his countenance at that particular time, but the real person may be lurking in the midst.

It's difficult to understand your own self, let alone understanding someone else. Sometimes circumstances make you do things that you should not have done or would not have done. At times you feel threatened by a certain someone's aura so you act out in a conventional or even unconventional way. Who is to tell who is right? Who is to tell who is appropriate? What's becoming at that particular moment may not be fitting at another. In the end, a considerate person does what he needs to do in order to maintain peace and harmony in that specific milieu.

People build walls to protect themselves and to limit their boundaries. Some walls are built consciously and other unconsciously to guard themselves against the adversities that they faced. Whatever it is, ultimately, however, walls needed to be torn down in order that humanity may flourish. Eventually, the individual will realize the destructive attributes of walls and gradually try to tear them down. Man cannot live alone. We need companions in order to lead happy and fulfilling lives. We certainly do not need walls to block us out of each others' lives. Walls are to be dissolved. Let no one be asunder.

The End

With everything that's happened to our nation for the past few months, I now realize that the beginning of the end has begun.

Whose Life?

My life is in my hands
No one can convince me otherwise
My life is in my hands
No one has the right to make it theirs
My life is in my hands
I am as happy as a lark
My life is in my hands
I would do nothing to change it
My life is in my hands
Though I seem to have no plans
My life is in my hands
So is yours

Changes

Can people really change? I mean like change change. I think it's all a lie, a fantasy created by people who wants to make amends of their past.

A World Without End

Imagine a world without end
Where we can laugh
and play without mend
Imagine a world without end
Where we can live
and dream without bend
Imagine a world without end
Where we can love
and commit without rend
(To be continued and edited)

Seriously?!?!?

What has become of this world? Is this all there is to mankind--fighting for supremacy and not giving in--no matter what the loss amounts to?!? Enough already! Think people, think! How many lives have to be lost, how many people have to be injured before you wake up and call a truce? It's never too late to give up your prejudices. It's never too late to admit that you're wrong. And it's certainly not too late to shake each others hands.

We are what we are. Can't shake the fact. But is what we are enough? Pretty soon nothing will matter any more. All will be lost--all civilization, all modesty, all forgiveness, everything gone. What remains will just be fragments of what was once a caring, loving, smiling, forgiving, and "mai pen rai" community.

Speaking of this "mai pen rai" motto, can we bring it back please, (for our children's sake)? What has happened to our carefree attitude? Has it disappeared down the drain? Is it so easy to wash off someone's persona? I mean, something that has been in this nation for generations and generations. How can it be so easily diminished? Come back, I implore, come back!!