a different perspective

when mean people hurt us
just think of them as sandpapers

they may rub and scratch painfully

but eventually...

you will end up smooth and polished...
while the sand paper ends up worthless.

analyze this

"No one can drive us crazy...











unless we give them the key..."

Relections:
...never let someone in unless you are sure that you can survive and you can still manage if he decides to let you go...or to escape you.

...expectations are made not to let us hope for the best, but to work your way in making the best of every situation.

...the people that have hurt us will continually hurt us only if we allow them to treat us badly...only if we refuse to let go of the memories.

...the people that have caused us so much pain will move on. Not letting go of all the pain and not understanding where it roots from, will hinder us from moving on. Incidentally, they are usually the people we kept close to our lives and whom we have come to love deeply. As we settle with their apologies and forgiveness, we are left with all those awful and painful memories to live with.

When Sh*t Happens

I’ve read somewhere that to minimize the stresses in life; you must perceive your own life as an everyday challenge. This way, every struggle will be faced with enthusiasm and not with disdain and complains. Whining about every problem that comes our way will not make everything better. In fact, it leads us to thinking that life is a burden. To me, life is as spontaneous as it can be. No means of control or planning could prepare us to whatever is at stake in the future. Truly, it will be a big surprise. Sometimes, the bleakness of your situation now can open certain possibilities that could lead you to your own happy ending. And even the slightest mistake could lead us back to deep dark moments of our life only to learn over and over the things that we refuse to accept. When situations play with our emotions, we have to take a grip of our initial reactions for bad things might root from them. Our only job is to take a breather when everything seems to close in so we could face issues one step at a time.

As cynical as it may be, freaks like I am always believed that we can steer everything our lives. But the thing is, it truly helps to accept that there are things bigger than us, bigger than anything we have come to believe. We are often placed in situations that seem to have happened in the past only to make us feel that we are plain mortals…we have no control whatsoever to whomever or to everything that might come and go. Things could fade right before our eyes and we must be strong enough to bear with the agony of finally yielding into certain philosophies that we once found stupid, unimportant, and untrue.

It helps that we have families that will always receive and accept our faults, mistakes, and lashed out nonsense whenever we stumble and fall. It’s comforting to think that we can pray for strength and guidance in everything we face. But the truth is we are the ones that will bend, change, and be hurt over and over again so before we think of others, we must reflect deep into our souls to really know what we are made of. Make ourselves whole again. Because as harsh as life can be, we are the only ones who can really treat ourselves the way we deserve to be treated.

This is what I believe right now and this is the way things are gonna be in my life. Selfish as I can be, I will never settle for things that are temporary and things with conditions. I now know what I am worth and I will be damned if I don’t get what I want this way. This is how I make things simple. This is how my life is. This defines my happiness. And I don’t know if things will stay like this. But I still have hopes that whatever will strike me again, I will be armed this time with courage and strength that time and mistakes have forged and molded me to be. Thank God for bearing with me all those times that I have stayed too long in the emotional circus I have come to call “life”.

Sorry if my blogs are quite pretty low lately. That’s exactly how I feel these days. Maybe because valentine blues are starting to loom over me and yet, I still can’t find a thing to be busy with. ‘am fighting temptations though but I know I could still hold it, suck ‘em all in, and just be happy…well maybe these past few days is just a stage that will pass and will be forgotten. After all, I will be preoccupied with many things in the next few months.

So until this gloominess pass, I will post something meaningful hopefully.

press button if bored

Few of the many words to describe tired and bored:

Fed-up
Feeling low...
Stressed-out
Burned-out
Drained
Wasted
Battery empty
Delusional
Low-energy level
Loss of enthusiasm
Excited…no more
Psyched…yesterday
Moping…a lot
Occasionally depressed
PMS
Stood-up…recently
Hopeful...yesterday
Indifference
Lack of attention
Too much attention
Too much love
Zero love meter
Neglected…always
Waiting…still

…so, are you feeling me now?

Care to share your escape button?

is it worth it?

Waiting is too much to ask
In vain, you might lose sanity,
In haste, you might lose reason for actions
Exactly when does waiting become too long?
I don’t know, maybe when the party who wait could not bear
More of the agony
More thinking
More disappointment
As time ticks, moments are lost
To waiting
So when will this end
Go figure!!

in time for valentine season

"the painted veil"

my lightning round of reviews would be:
Touching and maturely riveted love story
Excellent cinematography
Surprisingly romantic settings (at the middle of a cholera outbreak)

Deeply engaging script:
Every line encompasses emotions
Meaningful passages and more

“I knew when I married you, you where selfish and spoiled…but I love you. I know you married me to get as far away from your mother as possible, and I hope that one day, there will be something more…”

“Duty is only washing your hands when they are dirty…but when love and duty is one, then grace is within you.”

Cholera is quite an honest metaphor to pertain the reality of one’s struggles in love.

Utterly depressing but nevertheless, it was quite a tasteful tale of finding their way to realizing that love is pure and love is selfless, and love lasts.
Because in love
There are no known faults
There is nothing to forgive
No hate lasts
No barrier is left standing
With boundless of possibilities
Love basically conquers every reason just to make it happen
Love finds its way to draw people
Into their destiny

For a long time, I have never seen a meaningful movie such as this one. Letting myself be immersed into this honest and remarkable love story has made me realize that everything I know about life and love was shallow, much to my surprise. This movie proves that they are much deeper than that.

To this age where senseless gore and feel-good movies thrive, this is definitely a must-see. I can’t speak more other than I really love this movie.

LUvv it!!