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“Look what you made me do?” I caught myself yelling. I stopped whatever else I was going to say just in time. I didn’t want to get caught in the same old blame game.
I was short tempered that day, as I often am. But it wasn’t my sister’s fault. I was stressed at work and was taking it out on people at home.
I have to learn to accept responsibility for my feelings and actions. People don’t make me do things; I make myself do things.
As of this writing, it has been 5 years since I left my country Philippines where I had lived all my life. It was a difficult decision to make but I had to because the man I love is here in the U.S.
Goodbyes are painful, but they are also necessary. As one writer puts it, “Goodbyes reveal something about the meaning of our lives… our hearts have many anchors, but when the great tides call us to catch the wind and sail away, we will be missing life itself if we fail to go.”
There was a time in my life when so many things simultaneously demanded my full attention. Day in and day out. I pushed myself to be everything to everyone. I strove to make everybody happy… except myself. Resentment seeped in. I became cranky. I seldom smiled. I was bitter and often wallowed in self-pity.
A friend jolted me back to my senses – all this was happening because I allowed it to happen. Indeed I allowed myself to be a victim.
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When my husband was courting me, I just simply couldn’t believe it. How could such a stable sensible guy fall for insecure, crazy, rebellious little me?
As the years went by, the next question was, how could this person stay by my side with all my flaws and idiosyncrasies – not to mention the added 30 or 40 pounds?
Goes to show how little we think of ourselves sometimes.
Before, the mention of the “saints” would evoke in my mind images of men and women in long robes, with hands clasped, eyes gazing mystically to the heavens, a silly halo above their crowns. That is, until I got the chance to read on their lives.
I found out that saints are a diverse lot. Some lived almost unblemished lives, some were the worst of sinners prior to their conversion, while some just lived honest, clean and simple lives.
• Significantly more men suffer from cardiac diseases, ulcers and blood pressure problems than women;
• Significantly more men who attempt suicide succeed, because they use more violent at certain ways to do so;
• Men have a shorter life expectation than women
Because men are so bent on keeping things to themselves that the only way to release all the sadness, loneliness, insecurity, feat and anger is through their bodies. Because men have been taught that it isn’t okay for them to cry.
Despite of the terrorism that are ruining some part of the Philippines, especially in Mindanao where I came from, a lot of people still have hopes in their hearts that maybe one day, they will have the peaceful community that they are dreaming of. That’s why, recently, they held this Global Peace Festival in Mindanao to advocate and share to the younger generation their goals and visions in attaining peace in Mindanao . Although I’m not physically there, I support their advocacy. Let’s not lose hope in achieving a peaceful community and a peaceful world.
The competing food chain in the Philippines , before and until today, are Mc Donalds and Jollibee. And despite the fact that Mc Donalds is more popular here in the US , I still can’t help but compare the two and even sometimes, crave for a Champ rather than a Big Mac. I more of a fan of the huge smiling bee that the oversized shoed clown. Maybe, I just can’t rid off the Filipino taste in me that Jollibee was able to offer. It’s not that Mc Donalds doesn’t taste that good. But it’s as simple as Mc Donalds is really for the American’s taste.