Expressing Love

I happen to read this story and was touch at the moment I read it. It reminds me on how important it is to tell to people, specially love ones, how they are treasured. At times we tend to neglect and think that they knew we love them. That we forget the fact that we need also to tell them how much they are cared every time.

Life is too short. Thus, we need to always affirm to them every time that we love them. We'll make them know what we feel and make them hear it out from us.

Here's the story:

" My father is not the expressive or hugging type of a guy. But I recall as a child, that he showed his love to me the only way he knew best-he walked me in the park and we simply talked.

A few months ago, Dad was trying to fix a light bulb in the garbage area. Standing on a chair for greater reach, he lost his balance and went crashing down. His head hit the concrete floor and he was brought to the hospital. Doctors needed to operate on his brain because of blood clots. The gravest blow while he was confined in the hospital was severe pneumonia so he was hooked up to a respirator. We were directly told that he could go anytime.

I looked at Dad's ashen face and whispered in his ear, "I Love you , Dad!"

That was when he regained consciousness for few minutes. He looked at me with so much sadness in his eyes, raised one hand, touched my cheek and tried to hug me. He seemed to be bidding farewell. For both of us it was like clinging to eternity.

My father get better after several months. And hug him more often now."

... This story is not just for the Fathers and sons but for all of us. That letting our love ones know how much they are valued is necessary to make life appreciated.

I remember one time when a wife shared to us her story about how important telling and hearing the words I love you's is. She said that her day is always as ordinary just like what we have. However, when her husband will tell her the magic words, she said, everything went to an extraordinary day. She narrated and reminded us on how we figure out what is a hands-on mother is, she said that she's just like that. Taking care of the house full of mess, house chores and responsibility to set the house in order. And if we visualize a mother, she said, she's not excuse because she too is like that, a woman who shouts at home, angry and wear a tired face even before the day ends. That's how her everyday routine is . But she said, when she heard those words, she elaborately told us that everything in the house, the works and other things, is nothing because she felt like floating. That fireworks brighten her surrounding. And she added that you won't be able to notice that you already finish all the work at home because of the smile that was on her lips.

That real story of the wife tells us that even if those three words, "I love you", only are the words spoken by people, life will surely be so wonderful. This could esteem an individual to view everything around him differently and not just that, everyone will have a happy disposition and that will make an awe-inspiring world to live with.

If that's a kind of people, positive thinkers and wears smiles on their lips, live in this world that we have, we could really imagine a peaceful world. Isn't it wonderful to live in that kind of world? What do you think?

Well, I know changing the world is so big. Maybe we are to start with a single step first and that is to start in our own backyard, in our own family. Until there will be such a time that the entire humanity will be able to follow the trend we'll set.

Love you my dearest! :)

Take a time to STILL.

If you keep on working, they said that you won't really enjoy what life is all about. That you'll make your life boring, and your making your age older than what the real you is.

I think there's truth about that. Every one of us really needs recreation or leisure to rejuvenate ourselves. It's not necessary that you are to spend big amount of money just to fell revitalized, but just setting aside time and allow yourself to think matters that would make yourself, your mind, be inspired, smile and REST.

Other people would react to that, maybe because of the many things to think that they don’t have really the real time for themselves. That they think, 24/7 is not enough to finish what you needed to accomplished, that they need more time to finish what were asked from them.

It’s not necessary to book a plane ticket, reserve your place at a resort nor packed necessary things to have recreation. I’m talking about the simple recreation. Set aside 5 minutes, carry your chair beside an open window and gaze on the view out there waiting for you to ponder what life is all about and be amaze of the beauty the scene wanted you to look at. If you are in a building or city and you don’t have the view of the natural nature… then look at the people walking around, the cars buzzing on the traffic…think about what they think, visualize who really are they or imagine what arethe things they will be doing why they are there walking. If you are in a high risk building… then look at the sky, envision happy memories you have. If you don’t have any of those, then just lie down a bit and close your eyes, then envisage your blissful memories and the future you’ll have. As simple as that you could be able to revivify yourself. Eventually, after that you’ll be able to think new ideas concerning you job at hand. I'm sure you'll be amaze on how easy to think the invigorating ideas that earlier it took you, hours, days or months.It made you think that the idea is only out o f reach. The only thing you can’t possibly think of new ideas is because you're mind is already tired and cramming for ideas and out of focus .

“Just take a time to stand still and know that I am God.” It's almost the same with taking time to rest. Well, that's what God is trying to say when we keep on battling to live life, making ourselves into exhaustion until there will such a time that we will die because of what we've done with our own body.

Take a time to REST. J

Technology Helps

There was a time that I was very upset because of the missing amount of money in my office, that gives me triple times of headaches and heartaches because of the fact that if I can't find who the culprit is, I'm the one who'll be paying the money lost because those are not mine. Those are collection from the dues we have and I was only assigned to collect them. It gave me sleepless nights thinking if the money were misplaced or I commit mistakes in giving the change. This incident took more than a week, and this made me apprehend what’s the real situation is and who is the guilty party.

One day I made myself to be very observant of my surroundings to observe people around me, I found out that a certain individual is always present wherever I am. Scanning the memories I have with days where I discover the missing money's, this made me think of a suspect. However, you can't be able to confront somebody if you don't have the proof or evidence pointing out and backing up what you are to say. So this gave me a decision to make a move.

One day, wherein I’m already feed up of the religiously act of the offender, I then decided and took the initiative to leave my cell phone with a cam, and let the video roll while I hid it on an area where no one can see. Maybe you're thinking why I'd leaved my cell phone. What if that will be the thing the culprit well get instead of the money. Incidents gave me idea of leaving my cell phone because the culprit doesn't have the intention of getting any materials aside from peso bills. If he’ll be taking the gadgets like my cell phone, he could be easily be identified. That made me settle on to leave the cell phone in my office.

When I leave the phone rolling, I made it sure that everything are on its place so I will know if something is missing and that the evidence is clear enough to support my suspicion.

And thank God, because of the gadget, I then discover who the culprit is. He can’t be able to deny the factual truth that was shown in front of his eyes, because he was caught in the act.

The incident made me realize that gadgets like CCTV’s and other technology would help us when they’re use properly. That an office or anywhere, a device, especially those that are into protecting ones life and put to record the necessary events to be use as a proof or evidence, could be able to save and solve cases such as my case, determining who’s the perpetrator who stole the money.

Culprits are a big problem! hah!

I just hate it. I have with me in my office lots of money 'cause I collect some of the dues. But everytime I count and recount the money with my list of people who paid, I usually found out that the money is not equal with the list that I have. You might say, maybe the way you give them the change. Mm.. if the money that was lost is just a minimum amount wherein you can say that I made a mistake in giving them change, that might be the problem I unconsciously committed. However, this is the usual ways, I also count the money before I leave my office and keep them into order. I just went to other business I needed to attend to, then the some amount were gone! not just hundreds, but a couple or more. I really hate it!

I also make a list of the moneys I count and hide them somewhere else, then the next day, there's still lacking from the amount I know I kept.

Hah! I keep on having such situation. This made me think who maybe is the culprit. But its hard to really know who he/she is. Then maybe, he/ she is a ghost. 'cause I couldn't see him/her taking some of the money. I don't own the money (well I think he knows that because he too know I collect it because of the dues) but the hardest and hurtful part of it is, I am accounted of it. So if i can't find the culprit, or the money, then I need to pay for what was lost and that's FROM MY OWN POCKET! HAH! CULPRITS! they really create a big problem! I hate it... really!

&*%#@%$... sorry for that... but I just want to think aloud things like this. Enough! There will be a time that I will know who you really are. Just wait! Anyway, there's no secret that forever will be kept. >:<

Emoticons

The emoticons above are some example of emoticons used in chatting, texting even used in writing letters. Let’s discuss over a coffee ~O) how important they are and how these emoticons deliver our true emotions with people we talk to, communicate and other things through gadgets, things they couldn’t see our face or clearly see and feel what we needed them to understand as receiver.*-J

I usually use this things when I text matters to my friends ‘cause this clears out what I wanted them to receive. There were people who received and interpret text differently that most of the time, it delivers and create chaos b-( in their relationship because of the way they read or interpret the message. Maybe because it is of the receiver’s situations, emotions or feelings at that time that contributed to the other interpretation of the message received.

I knew some people and relationships that were put on jeopardy :-< because of the wrong understanding of the received message. At times, the relationships where broken because of that. L It causes a broken heart =(( ,disbelief and a troubled life. Sometimes, we could think that things like this are a silly :I thing to talk about, but its not. I know that relationships are important, I know you do too J, for they were built from our sweat and takes years just to make two people put trust, faith and love to each other. We don’t want to break it because of a wrongly interpreted message.

:-? I remember one time that a relation told me to use emoticons when delivering messages for me to make them understand that I’m not angry. That I joke at times, that things are just made to clear things out. From then on, I usually used emoticons especially with situations where I know that discussions arises because of a critical issue or topic or situation. As I observe, emoticons help a lot. It clears out what a sender of the message really meant with his message to the receiver.

Situations I mentioned are just a portion of the many experiences and opinions people face everyday. You might want to share your own experience as you’ll post your comment here so that people will be convince and will consider, not maybe all the times but at times when needed, use emoticons to communicate with other people. Bring it on >:/ or use chatter box :-@ J

^J^ don’t worry, you’ll just share. :-j oh, go on. J

Oil Price HIKE!

Oil price goes up, and up but we seldom hear that it went down.

This is always the topic over the radio, television and even the net. And this affects all of us.

We're just wondering what's going on with our oil companies that we usually hear news that they'll apply oil price hike, and you know their reason? It's because the World Market price of it goes up. Well, that's acceptable and understandable because of the happenings in the countries who are major players of oil. However, we're fed up in hearing hike... hike... hike... Oil price Hike. Out of 10 news about oils, we only heard one news about oil companies applying deduction of oil price. Imagine, out of 10, only 1 news talks about a positive view about oil prices. That makes me wonder why.

Another thing is the price itself. They are to put a price hike automatically and much higher to what is expected but when they are to deduct, only cents are what they are applying. And sometimes, it's hard for them to give that. Why? They're keeping themselves; their eyes, ears and mind ; shut, as if they don’t know what’s going on but when it comes to escalation, they're just like a lighting that when you're not watchful, you'll just be shock because of the addition?

HUH! Is that how powerful they are now? That even the government doesn’t have any teeth at all to make them implement what’s necessary to do? That they don’t have anything in mind but just to earn money for them? Gain lots; earn many, afraid to be bank craft?

Think of this… They buy oil in bulk, right? That at times, the price is at the lower point. But when there is a price hike, all the oils they have, they brand it as part of the oil they just bought with that high price. Is that right? Businessman’s thinking right? Mmm

Well, they will say to us and every one of us would think about this; they build that as a business, and then they’ll run it as a business. That’s the truth anyway. If we are in their shoe, that’s what we really could think and say. However, can we also ask them to also try to be on our shoe so that they could also think about our situation? (The problem is if they wanted to) huh!) They could also feel how hard it is to put things together in our budget just to meet all the needs at home.

Hahahaha… they might laugh. Why? It is because of this matter; What are the materials at home that oil/gasoline/kerosene is needed. Is it only your vehicles, Why is it you are to put on us the blame.

Hah! You just laugh. Maybe only the thing that was mentioned is the one that uses that oil you sell. But take note of this, all the needs in the kitchen are transported with the vehicles that uses oil. So at the end, they’ll receive additional price from their owner for them to earn as well. The bottom line is, the mothers or family where the one’s who will shoulder the burden because they’re the end consumer.
So, what’s the best thing to do? Don’t use things that uses oil or gasoline? Go back to basic? What if the government will regulate the price of the oil? ‘Cause from the way we see it, government is like a dog to the oil companies. If that’s not true, why simple people perceive things like that? If this is not true, then KINDLY PLEASE MOVE AND CHANGE SOMETHING BETTER?

Way of life

Ways of life really give us numerous failures, regrets and crying time that sometime we tend to stop the life we have. They carry us sometime to situation we hope we are not into, we desires that we won’t be able to commit wrong choices and decisions for us to make this life good and easy. But still life gave us situation that made us still for we sometimes don’t know what’s the best thing to do. We take time to think so that we might choose the right way but at the end we could find out that we still chose the wrong way; we still took the wrong decisions. Sometimes we couldn’t comprehend it that we already put our life in jeopardy because along the way we’re enjoying, it gives us signs and situations that we really are correct in taking the said road, but then still we come to a point in regretting it, we come to a point of crying over spilled milk because that spilled milk is so precious that cause us our life... our entire life to have that. From that statement, we really could say life is so promising but lots of turns that would lead us to victory, means happiness, or failure.

It is okay if that failure’s result is temporal or we’re only the one who are hurt, but those results also makes people, especially those who are close to us, cry. It is okay if we are only the one who will feel down because it’s our choosing that leads us to that road, but then the problem is, it’s not only us who will cry on that choices but also them, love ones. That makes our feeling doubled or so burdened. It is okay if they’re just to cry because they’re sorry for us, but then in almost all cases, they’re not that. They really are involve because they were hurt, that we also put their life on jeopardy, that we pull them to took that way, a way of uncertainties. Ahhh!!! You can’t really know where life leads you. Seems unending. We took that way but others still took that way after us. Is that really a human style? A human failure that we forgot to think things very carfully?

From the facts that writers and books states and shows, this tells us that time or periods really gave a lesson to the upcoming period that they could carry what the past era make them experience. This shows that without the past, the future won’t be able to learn and develop. Without the situations or circumstances it undergoes, the people may tend to stay inside the old shell without trying to make itself explore what has in stored for him. Yes, some experiences makes you fell and will make you decide to stop your life because of the hardships it gives, but by doing so, you won’t and couldn’t experience the enjoyment and new things the future set for you. But if we go on... we keep on fighting for it and might be along the way we fail in something, it still worth it cause you’ve done your best to overcome things. If ever you stop in the midst of that fight because the life and the way is design for you to reach that area only, at least you may be able to give the next wanderer to learn from the your experience

Life.

What does life all about? What makes life meaningful? What’s the best thing to do to make this life worth living?

What is really the correct description of a beautiful life?

Those were the some of the questions we usually think if we are in solitude, when were alone, when we think deep or when were down. I too always think about what really life is all about. During the ups and downs of my life, I came up to different meanings and answers to what life is. Sometimes I arrive to a reasonable answer but most of the time I just made my self contented with the distance or the shallow explanation I could think during that time. All the times, I end up saying… “Well, that’s life and we must live by it and enjoy what’s going on because we couldn’t predict what comes before us.” But what really is life?

We have different idea what that word means. And even if we or you have the same situations with somebody in this world… still you two have diverse thinking and outlook of what this life all about.

There were lots of historians, poets, writers, authors or honorable people who attempted to define what life is. And am sure, you also like and take into action as well as part of your motto the scribbled or spoken meaning of that word. Maybe because you idolize the life of that person or the words he/she’d used really struck you at the time you read or heard it. But then there were lots of people still who longs and look for reasons or situation that will satisfy the questions they have. They look for that to maybe, at least make them ready to what future will bring and make their living here on earth fulfilling.

As I write this, I still can’t find the very words how to define that word. HUH! It’s a very simple word but when you are to define it, a definition that would gratify the loop holes you could see in every question that your mind formulates every time an answer pops up or given, but still I can’t find one. Even King Solomon, the wisest king of all, still couldn't simplify the meaning of what life is. Why? Because each one of us has different point of view of what that is. There were times we could formulate a convincing answer to those question but when a situation arises, the answer will be tested that usually we come to a point of editing that formulated answer you have. Every time you encounter situations, we always enhance or change that outlook in life because it won’t fit to the situation already. It’s like a technology that every second an improvement of that product or idea was added to make that thing fit in to the world of today.

Maybe, in that way we could understand what was going on and able to accept what will happen. Maybe it calls for flexibility on our part. As the things in our surroundings change, we must also change our point of view. As the world advance, we also are to move ahead for us to make life better. Maybe that’s the very process we must do for us to sustain and enjoy this life we had.

But the very thing we must keep in mind is… as we make ourselves flexible, as we move forward with the world, we must always stick with the ideals or the values for us not to be swayed in this rapid changing world that we have. We must still step our feet on the ground keeping in mind that we are not alone in this world. That we have responsibilities, that we have to keep our faith firm as we cultivate our traipse in life. That we are not to forget to enjoy the life we have because like the grasses in the meadow, they are there showing their beauty as they sway with the wind, trying to stand still against the scorching sun rays, dance with the music of rain and air, but then they too are gone when it’s time for them to whither for that’s what they are. However, you might be amazed that when they die, there still grasses like them that grows and replace them. The amazing part of it is they're almost have the same features of the descendant they have because those who died leave their mark through their seeds.

I hope we too would take the example of those grasses. That we live our life to the fullest but while we're doing it, we must always remember that we need to imprint the good things to the life of people; people who stands like us, who sings, think, speak like us. So that when you leave the chronos world, it's only your body which is gone. But you, your ideals, your purpose and everything WORTH living will still live. That it's as if we live again to enjoy the immeasurable expense of life in this world. And that's through the life of the people we touch.