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Kindness
November 1, 2006True kindness does not end in good thoughts about people alone. Any good thought should manifest in a good act. It should show in open hands ready to grab another one helplessly needing a pull from the pit of his own misfortunes. True enough that good deed is not merely praying for people but of doing something to people. It is the deed which is the culmination of a good thought and noble desire. A good heart does not rest on good intentions alone, but is the foundation of a rightful act of touching people’s lives by example.
You touch not merely by the person that you are, but who they are or what they become because of you. Did they realize the need to respond to others more sensitively, did you inspire them to do an act of service that improved the situation of others, where by your example they likewise desire to share their blessings? Touching lives is planting in them the same seed that grew in you, the seed of humble and noble desire to love others, even in the littlest way you know.
Kindness, therefore, is a prayer that culminates in a deed. It is loving a stranger by filling his stomach that hasn’t received food for days; it is picking up a bum on a restless street to feel the comfort of a nursing home; it is cleaning the wounds of people in their worse physical condition; it is healing brokenness of a restless heart eager for recovery. Kindness is listening to someone even in his silence.. for there are silent anguishes, there is a loud cry in the heart that could not break even into feeble into uttering.
Kindness is seeing people — seeing their need to be loved and to feel belonged. And upon seeing comes responding…That is my idea. That is the seed that keeps growing in me. Exactly, I do not know if it’s a sprout or a growing tree, I am just thankful it was planted there.
Forbidden
October 31, 2006A heart forever mute
A sanctuary of unexposed flame.
A heart caged for the right reasons,
A purgation of a blemished soul.
A love not free to find expression,
A passion unfree to rage.
A love that has sworn complete secrecy,
Bound to melt away in silence.
Deleting…
October 16, 2006Am deleting…
deleting some nuisance in my life… some fears that make me tremble upon the thought of them.. and a large amount of negativism that has taken residence in my system.
am deleting some old memories and filing them behind for i have so many things to consider at present and i'll be really working hard to clean my desk.
am cancelling some plans that are not really worthy of time and effort…
am postponing those that need no immediate attention.
am on the job and am trying to fill in my life with new "data," updating myself with the "NOW."
am deleting negative thoughts, bad thoughts and crazy ideas about people ( gosh, sometimes they all just rush in my mind!)
am upgrading myself and my system with renewed vitality.
Life is about living today — thankful of the past and hopeful for the future. I have decided to delete those that will affect me negatively in order to make some good things happen or come my way. aja!
FAIRY TALE
October 12, 2006 I LOOKED IN YOUR EYES
AND I SEE FOREVER.
I HELD YOUR HANDS
AND I SEE DESTINY FITS IN.
I PUT MY FAITH IN YOUR LOVE
AND I KNOW I'VE FINALLY FOUND MY HOME..
PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRYTALES
BUT I DO WHEN I FOUND YOU
THERE WERE CASTLES ON CLOUDS
THE RAIN TURNED GOLDEN TINGED
AND THE WHOLE WORLD BECAME MAGICAL…
Winged Fire
August 9, 2006to venture into horizons
my eyes can only feast on.
The winged fire of love
blowing into undiscovered destiny.
The winged fire
left awhile my heart
resting on the shade of youth
To return one day
when am braver to be consumed.
Unpoemed
December 3, 2005Darkness engulfs me in the dead of the night
The moon quivers with the gray clouds
The winds disturbs the resting naked branches
just like the spirit of the world kissing my naked soul.
The clouds hide half of the sky's face
With the stars closely hiding
Not glitter is visible against the dark pitched heavens
just like the spark of my youth slowly waning.
What My Dash Will Constitute
October 7, 2005a friend e-mailed me an article saying she’s glad that she has me in her dash. By that she meant the years from the day she was born until the day of her death. She claimed that the most important in life is how life has been made meaningful because of the people and the experiences that transpired in those years. And so today, inspired by the thought, I want to cite all the things I desire to fill the dash in my life, all that I intend to be and how i want to be remembered.
let the count down begin:
1. to make life a bit easier for people who are within my reach
2. to touch the lives of others even though fleeting
3. to inspire people to do the right thing
4. to publish a literary work in paper bound
5. to please God.
6. to feel contented wherever I am placed, NO MATTER WHAT I AMOUNT TO.
7. to have a guy best friend
8. to become a medical practitioner
9. to become an educator
10. to feed the hungry whenever I can and my finances allow
11. to hug someone whose privately in pain
12. to read people’s gestures more accurately
13. to be assertive
14. to travel to at least 3 countries
15. to roam the Philippines’ best places
16. to have loved so much with the mind in constant check.
17. to be known more fully and deeply by at least 5 persons besides my immediate family
18. to be loved as I am: flawed.
19. to have spent more time in reflection and meditation
20. to be well-versed on two foreign languages
21. and be more coversational in the different Filipino dialects I know.
22. to have fulfilled at least 60 percent, if not mostly, of these guidelines.
23. to please God. (oh, have i said that already?)
24. to be respected because of my integrity and principles, not of my rank.
25. to be fluent in English, written and oral.
26. to achieve an aura of calmess and commanding presence.
27. to have prayed for others more.
28. to never lose my values amid harsh realities.
29. to stand for the truth and never make justifications for the wrong.
30. to never compromise my morals even when I feel deserted.
31. to have never given up on life despite the odds.
32. to have remained strong in character even when good fruits are’nt reaped.
33. to have walked an extra mile for a friend when I feel that I have already given enough.
34. to have a house and lot of my own.
35. to have at least 10 beautiful people in my life that left a legend.
36. to work for the poor, the destitute and the less loved by the society.
37. to be acceptable to my conscience.
38. to be pleasing to others, but never a conformist.
39. to have a car. (of my own)
40. to see my parents live the life I dream for them as they grow old.
41. to see my siblings reap their dreams before its too late.
42. to hear of friends doing well.
43. to have loved my enemies by praying for them even when my heart aches.
44. to learn to play a musical instrument like guitar or piano. (whichever)
45. to have a painting of my own (made by myself)
46. to tend a garden back home.
47. to really bake.
48. to have learned street dancing, ballroom.
49. to be part of a play once more. (theather)
50. to be at peace with myself depite life’s complexities.
51. to never be a disgrace to my parents. (according to my standards)
55. to find a loving and faithful partner and have wonderful kids.
56. or to lead the road different from the secular life.
57. to have savings when I reached 30.
58. to be involved in volunteer work in far-flung places.
59. to have lived by example wherein kindness is the best policy.
60. to die happy.