GONE THE OTHER WAY

Hello world. I'm back. I didn't notice but it's been a year since my last post. Well, that's life. We get busy sometimes that we forget what we love to do. Or maybe I'm just to bored to be doing something else. Actually something serious is bothering me right now. I should have not cared at all if the person involved is someone not so important.

Haizt. This is very frustrating. Ok. Let me tell you what's going on. My brother ran away from home. He's of legal age but hey, that doesn't give anyone the right to just walk away just because they want to. Back home, my Dad, my Mom and other family members are dead worried about what happened to him since we can't even give a ring on his phone. I'm mad because he did this and did I mention I can't get a decent sleep because of thinking where he might be? Well. Family is family. It's just no fair, I mean what he did. Grrrrrr... rawr.

We grow up and have our own lives to attend to but leave just because??? Please. Yeah, I admit, we don't have the same thoughts on things and I don't know his reason for doing so. Whatever that reason is, that should have been disccussed. There could have been no worried Dad crying coz he doesn't know where his son is. If he's okay, if he has eaten yet or if he's still breathing. Damn. There could have been no worried family members. If you can read this brother, JUST LET US KNOW YOUR SAFE. =(

END OF THE LINE

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it maybe!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home.

Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.

Do not expect anything in return; do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ideal moment.

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person.

Nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life.

Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

100 CALLS WAITING!

Ring ring...

Ever had the feeling that there were people calling you though you don't see anyone? Ever had the feeling that someone's telling you to do something? Have you ever find yourself trying to do something you never planned? Like someone else is living your life for you. Like they wanted you to be this and that? How did it feel? What did you do?

They said the human body can take care of itself. Look at the way we are designed. Covered by skin that when wounded, is automatically washed by blood. Our eyes reacts with the amount of light that is around that protects us from being blinded. In a state of shock, adrenalin pumps up allowing us to do things we thought we can't. When confused, instincts tell us what to do next. They're like whispers telling us to do this and that. They call our attention so that we can think with a clear perspective of what the outcome might be. I'm sure you experience it sometimes.

Then again, stubborn as we are we opt to do what we think is right. We favor our own judgment over the small call that we hear. Then at the end we realize we were wrong. Which reminds us that our body is also capable of protecting us from emotional stimuli. At times we could have protect ourselves from further damage if only we listened to that call. There will be more calls like that waiting to be answered. There'll be more of that call trying to direct us to what we really want. The next time you hear it again, follow it.

"Whatever happened once will never happen again, but whatever happened twice is sure to have a third and fourth times." A quote from Coelho's The Alchemist. Now if you've been doing things your way and get nothing good from it, why not give that call a try. Who knows...

If I Were Anything But A Human Being I'll Be...

Have you ever asked yourself what you want to be if you were not human? Hehehehehe. Such a strange question to ask don't you think? But let's face facts, sometimes we just wish we're not human but something else.

If I were anything but a human, I'll be AIR! Why not. I know you wont ask me why, but I'll tell you still! I wanna be important. I wanna be something you don't always talk about (not unless you're a scientist or something) but still be very important to you. Something that you'll never wish will be gone. Something that everybody can't live without! Selfish of me you might say but that's something I really want to experience... BEING IMPORTANT.

Now, don't you wish you were air?