The Blessed Life

Yesterday, I was sharing about my dream in some group chat.   Some friends reached out and comforted me.  I felt loved and I felt blessed that some Angels were sent to me.  They gave me beautiful insights to remind me how to live.  These Angels touched my soul and I was reminded, in good ways, to acknowledge and accept my bleeding heart.  I was guided on how to live and how to find the strength moving forward. I feel blessed to be surrounded with good people.  Their vast experience, good wisdom and learned knowledge provide me with good life lessons.  They are the comforters and the healers.  'Thank You' will not be good enough to express my deepest gratitude to them.   I pray that my prayers for them are answered, that they shall be blessed always.  Oh God, please bless all these good people, please. At the same time, yesterday reminded me that I have many faults.  I make mistakes repeatedly.  I keep doing silly things.  I am trapped in a vicious cycle.  Don't I have any r

All that I am doing, day in day out, is walking on a one way street.  There might be twists and turns, or a round about, and the ultimate is to reach the end, the final destination.  The street where I completed the earthly journey and to meet with the inevitable - Death.   There is no other end option available. That is what life is.  I should not fear the end but to enjoy the journey.  I should not put all my focus on it as it will happen somehow.  Instead, I have to keep walking and finding meaningful experiences to enrich my purpose with each and every step.  Along the way, I should stop and enjoy the smell of the roses and be one with nature. Life continues no matter what is.  But, the way I think matters.  I cannot and should not burden it with negativity.  I should let my thoughts be a happy one.  Any problems I encounter are not stop signs but they are guidelines.  Any successes I accomplished are not permanent too. As I keep walking, I should not overlook at life's small j

I pray for the world I live in.  I pray for my country.  I pray for my countrymen.  I pray for humanity.  I pray for my loved ones, my family, my friends and for myself.  I pray for better days ahead. What the world needs now is more than love.  What humans' need, as one, is peace of mind.  Humans need to feel safe again.  No one saw that the world, where you and I live in, will come to a standstill.  There are millions lost their jobs, millions lost their lives, millions lost their loved ones and millions suffered from a severe flu like ailment. The lock down has caused some forms of stress among us.  It changes social behaviours.  It alters the ways of lives, the way humans think.  There are many new normal at work, at home and everywhere in between. The vibration of the world has changed.  Is there something that Mother Earth wants the world to change?  Is she crying and suffering?  What does she want from humans?  Or, is the Universe has a bigger role in what is happening to Mo

Life moves forward and not backward.  When another new day comes, yesterday has left me completely.  I cannot rewind nor can I edit all the past actions.  My acts acted and words spoken spoken.   There is nothing else I can change.  Such, it is important that I am conscious with what I am doing, with what I am saying.   To regret is too late.  It has reflected badly on my conscience.  It shows I am not making good, not only for myself but with those I interact.  Worse, I am not giving life a chance to be beautiful.  I have to think how I want to live.  Against time, I have only one chance at doing things right.   Time has to be my friend.  As I am older each day, all that is important is to have more good days.  Should I have cried harder before, I want to laugh louder next.  I yearn to be surrounded by good loving things.   I want to live a peaceful life, be happy and let whatever days left be spent with meaning.  It is wise to stay good and be respectful towards anything and everythi

With love to Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, I learn the term 'Spark Joy'.  It teaches me on the importance to keep things that only sparks joy.  The idea of sparking joy is to live with the tidied important things, minus all the junks and clutters.   The effect from these organized and sorted main essential items will let me to experience true joy. Holding on to too many unimportant things will not make life easy.  It makes me stuck and inflexible.  I will end up with an attitude of not willing to change nor compromise.  A cluttered mind, a cluttered personal space will not let me breathe peace.  It will not give me emotional and mental clarity. When I de-clutter my mind together with my personal space, it will be easier for me to let things go.  There is definitely freedom in a vacuum.  De-cluttering allows me to create more space for good things to fill in.   The act is a reset button to start things all over again on a clean slate.  It is also about change wi

There have to be meanings for everything.  They are the main ingredients to make lives meaningful.  Having a sense of meaning brings fulfillment with purpose.  They make lives useful.  And, to make my life to be useful, I have to love my purpose.  I have to love all the best possible meanings for all my thoughts and actions. Because I love my parents, for example, I will do whatever to make us happy a lifetime.  Because I love God, I ask Him to provide peace in my life.  Because I love life and I wish to find the how to make me happy.  Because I love you and I must live to be good at loving you. There is nothing in the world I would not do because of love.  In the endless pursuit of happiness, happiness should not be the goal.  By itself, happiness does not give a full meaning to life.  It is merely a by-product of being useful. What really makes me happy is when I can be useful, when I am useful.  When I can create something to bring meaning to myself and the world.  When I create use

The pandemic has made travel rather impossible.  Even when it is possible, there are now strict restrictions.  There are pandemic control regulations every where in the world.  Serving the Stay Home Notice is a must and quarantine violations carry heavy penalty. This current situation is a good call for me to travel within.  It is about coming home, a journey within, to my soul and tame my mind.  It is taking the opportunity to give attention to what is within me. Taking a trip on the journey within makes me to gain knowledge and understanding of who I am and what makes me me.  When I get to know myself better, I get to know who I truly am and what I can achieve.  I have to find time to take on this journey. Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, says 'One who knows others becomes wise, but one who knows himself becomes enlightened'.  The journey within will make me to understand my own nature.   It is about getting in touch with what I already am.  As I sit and contemplate on this

Thank you for this meaningful quote, Ms Lily Amis (An author) - 'You go nowhere in this world if you think you are better than everyone else.  Always stay humble, child, regardless of what you achieve in your life'. A downfall in life is when I dismiss not to be humble.  When I disregard humility.  Worse, when I am full of pompous attitude and not grounded.   I have to remember where I come from.  I have to remember my roots and all the struggles I go through.  I come from nothing and while I may think that I have succeeded, success is always temporary.   There will always be many hills to climb on my journey in life, in all ways of living.  I am not more important than many others.  Every human is equally valuable, with success or otherwise.  I am not always right and that I do not have all the answers. As a human, I have this primal instinct wanting for approval and seeking acceptance from others.  It is done whether I am consciously aware of doing so or not.  This type of ap

When I take charge to care for my well being, I have to take conscious effort to be kind to myself.  I should know the extent of my boundaries and limits.  I must not make the stress of life any worse than it already is.  While limiting myself can affect productivity and I will not get to know how far I can go, I need to find a balance. A big part of self care is to learn how to cope with difficult situations.  It is important that I draw the line between myself and what are peoples' expectations of me.  I have to be aware of my strengths and my weaknesses.  It is wise that I know how much I am capable to cope and the distance I can handle. When I do not know my boundaries and limits, I will not be doing justice to my body and mind.  I have to define what exactly is too far or too much for me in order to know how much I can achieve.  Without knowing it, it may negatively impact my health. Nonetheless, I should not limit myself forever.  There is no boundary and no limit when I thin

Should I want to empower myself, and be a good human, I must learn not to give any excuses.  I should avoid using excuses for my anger, my disappointment, my frustrations and why I am not getting what I am looking for.  There is no 'outside' reason why things fail other than my own doing. All things start from within me.  I am the captain of my life, steering at the wheel.  When I do not take full responsibility and keep pointing fingers at others, or giving more and more excuses, I am not pleasing my soul.  To make excuses for my difficulties or failures reflects badly on my well BEing. Yesterday, when I was in the queue to get inside a supermarket, a lady had problem with her #TraceTogether token.  It resulted the queue to get longer.  It made some people frustrated, including me.  More than five minutes gone by and she was told by the Safe Entry Ambassador that the battery of her token had gone flat.  She looked at the queue and apologized. Should she have known better, she