The Blessed Life

To change life, I need to change what is inside of me first.   It has to be beautiful for it to get reflected beautifully on the outside world.  When I work to make myself better, everything else will take care of itself. To understand the future is a good thing.  To have goals in life is encouraged.  But, do I live looking at the future or do I live living in the past? I will not know how to love should I do not know the feeling of love inside me.  I will not know how to sing a good song should I not know what a melody is.  I shall be a winner, in life, when I make the best of everything. There is a difference between a good inside and a good outside.   Just as in the situation where some people talk to you on their free time or they take their free time to talk to you. It is important to learn the difference.  It is important to know the difference.  When I can be critical on myself, I learn I am not perfect.  When I learn to know that I am not perfect, I will learn to accept ot

'The apple does not fall far from the tree' , so it says.  It is a phrase to connect of who I am with that of my parents.  So here I am today, a living person of my family line.  I am grateful to be here.  I am thankful to my parents, their parents and their parents' parents.   The lineage - the family tree - would go on and on, all the way back to the beginning of creation.  I have the karmic relationship from my father and his side.  And, so does the traits - the attributes, the characteristics, the qualities - from my mother's side. I am a spark to the sum total to all of them.  I am the sum total of all their good and all their bad.  I have inherited their joy and pain, their love and hate, their success and struggle and their dreams and idiosyncrasies.  There shall be, and always be, something of them inside me.  It is the process of nature.  DNA is shared, it is passed down, like it or not, from them to me and every body else in the family tree.  Each one of us nu

  Should I want to live a peaceful life, I must learn to take responsibility on all my actions.  I have to own my words.  I have to be vigilant on my actions and reactions - and to make sure they are positive. Life is beautiful when I can no longer blame others for my errors, my mistakes.  Life is beautiful when I accept others to be my teachers.  Life is beautiful when I do not take things personal.  Everything in life and my relationship with others are about learning.  It is about my growth.  Should I take every thing personal - from what they want to tell me and from what they want to share with me - I will fail to be a human. I must learn to get rid of things that exhaust my soul.  I need to recognize what makes me happy.  I shall not pretend to be happy when I am hurt.  Yes, I will never able to heal if I keep pretending I am not hurt. Forgiveness is important.  I have to forgive myself should I am not able to forgive others.  A repeated mistake is a choice. Should I want to lear

 Boy oh boy, it is sure a good feeling when I can blame others for my faults, for my mistakes.  It will make myself free from being seen as the bad guy.  The bad ones are them, not me.   My identity as the good guy has to stay in tact.  It has to serve my ego for the ego yearns to feel right at all times.  Yes, I have ego.  Don't you have it too? Shifting the blame saves me from explaining what is causing the problem.  The way of finding cause is to blame someone.  I do not have to defend myself nor will I be under attack.  My ego loves to think that I am not the problem, they are. Is this the way of life that I am proud off?  What good do I get when I am constantly putting others in bad light?  Why do I have to shift the blame and punish others?   Where is love, I wonder?  What happen to my conscience and do I have any? Enough is enough.   I have to stop the blame.  I need to learn to accept and take one hundred percent full responsibility.  Bad things that happen to me are the re

We cannot give life more time.   We cannot turn back the time.   Once we miss it, it is gone forever.  To live truly on the essence of time and giving life more life, we need to embrace the life that is ours and not of someone else’s. Giving time more life involves making the most of the time we have. This should be the way we ought to live.  Should we are to love life, we should not waste time for time is what life is made up of. We need to make the effort to live.  We need to prioritize activities that bring us joy and fulfillment.  We need to live life graciously – it is good should we are to live it honestly too.  We need to treasure the time that is in our hands.  We should and must not take life for granted. We need to create quality time, as much we can.  We have to build good deeds and live by them.  It will do us good to be mindful and be present in the moment.  We have to find meaning in our activities, amicable in our communication and be truthf

  Thank you to you, Shannon L Alder (an author).  This piece of your inspirational quote often rings in my ear.  Constantly and consciously, I have to remind myself to be a human.  I have to understand what being human is.  I have to live as a human first before all my earthly identities.  I need tolerance be a creed in life. You said, 'Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first'.   Yes, religion matters.  It grounds me to embrace what is good and bad.  It makes me how to think, what to think.  Importantly, your quote makes me to realize about being tolerant with other humans from different walks of lives.  It reminds me to be willing to accept differences, be it in characters or beliefs, among us. Tolerance will bring relationships closer.  Humans have to live together, regardless of colours and most importantly, religion.  Why, in most cases, that religion divides among us?  Is this its main purpose?  I have to

  From my heart 💖 .. to yours 💝 .. Let's walk into 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ with our heads up, with our hearts open and with faith of hopes.  For we shall only see potential and lots of it. May there be light to guide and brighten each day, May there be all things good to put a smile on our faces, May there be joy, love, peace to lift our spirits. May you and I greet January 1st 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ and the 365 days with greater inspiration and resolute determination to write more good stories and pleasant adventures, good fortunes and in good health.  May the blessings be! Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Love and Prayers, ❤🙏🏻💚🙏🏻💛🙏🏻💙🙏🏻🧡🙏🏻

     Dear You , Everything has an end.  Everything has a beginning.  It is the end of a year and a new beginning is about to happen. It has been one good year where our paths crossed.  Where you have made a presence in my life.  To teach me with something, to impart me the knowledge about life.  Without you, I will not have learned.  Without you, I will not have known on the facts, the information and the skills to go through the divine experience of what life encompasses. To this 👆🏻, from a soul to another, "I love you, love you, love you." It has been another year where our experiences bring us to agree and disagree.  Where my mistakes have to be owned and where my wrong-doings need to be acknowledged.  I am not perfect and so long I am called a human, without doubts, I make mistakes along the way.  I may have imposed my presence onto yours.  I may have inflicted pains.  And, I may have taken advantage. To this 👆🏻, from a soul to another, "I am sorry, I am sorry, I

 See, observe and watch how babies grow.  How these innocent souls try anything they will.  They are not afraid to venture.  They do not know what is failure and strive to make things work for them.  They make attempts to do practically all kinds of things.  They are free spirited. It is when the parents, and everybody else major around them, start to nurture and teach them that their utmost potentials get inhibited.  Fear is being introduced in their lives.  And so are the many rules and restrictions.  They grow according to what is told to them. All parents love their children.  They want the best for them.  Be known as, much of the children's values are those of their parents.  Children are influenced by the parents' likes and dislikes, the parents' principles, morals and standards. What I am today is the product of my upbringing.  At the critical period of development, at my young adulthood, I become almost like my parents.  I live with the standards and values of those

Perfect joy is in the little things.  Are we nourishing the little things in our lives?  Are we making the little things to spark joy?  Are we allowing them to spark the light and letting them, with gratitude, to burst with opportunities?  Or, are we taking all the little things to be unimportant?  Are little things too insignificant and they don’t matter?  Are they too inconsequential and too trivial?  It is often said we are not to be petty.  We are told not to fret over small stuffs.  We are frequently reminded to let go of things that are not important, in the grand scheme of life.  Essentially, life is better when we do not let life forces to focus on things that do not hold significant importance.  It is good to take the best and trash the rest.  While there is meaning to everything, not all things are meant for immediate actions.  Do not count the chickens before they are hatched. That said, does it make us, unconsciously, to be complete