Pretty ladies or my pretty life?!?

Pretty things make me happy and flashy colors make me cheery

Good music gives me pleasure and nice talks make me feel lucky

But i guess these are all distractions from the hard decision taking process…

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

A story from up above....

My mom sent me this last september.....

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God,
Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.
I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.
Love, Meredith

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.
Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith' in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies..' Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey &Meredith and this note:

Dear Meredith,
Abbey arrived safely in heaven.
Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away.
Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog.. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by...
Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.
I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.
By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.

Love,
God

A life lesson...?

In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, women serve as both obstacles and aids on the Redcrosse Knight’s physical and spiritual journey. They function as tests and teachers; exposing his flaws and weaknesses while teaching him how they can ultimately be overcome.

The women in the poem illustrate how even a seemingly perfect knight is vulnerable to vices if lacking in virtue.

Holiness in and of itself is not enough to reach salvation.

Shallow holiness, lacking the crucial spiritual element, is weak and can easily be led in the wrong direction.

But holiness accompanied by true faith can overcome perilous obstacles, be they spiritual or physical.

When Redcrosse begins his quest, he is near sighted and foolish. Through his encounters with women, he realizes the deeper meaning of his mission and his true goal, becoming wiser and stronger in the process.

Redcrosse believes he is on a quest to slay the dragon that has been terrorizing Una’s village. While this is not untrue, it is only one aspect of his mission. Physically, he must slay the dragon, but the fulfillment of this goal affects the destiny of Redcrosse’s soul. Blind to this aspect, he searches the woods for any physical adventure in which he can partake. He is accompanied by Una, who represents true faith, but he is deaf to her warnings and advice. Against her wishes, he enters the dark cave inhabited by the monster Error, believing that it is his duty as a knight to fight all monsters, regardless of the threat they pose.

“Ah Ladie,” said he, “shame were to revoke

the forward footing for an hidden shade:

vertue gives her selfe lighte, through darknesse for to wade.” (Canto 1, 106-108)

Redcrosse fails to see the foolishness of his decision to unnecessarily put himself in harm’s way. Ha fails to realize the potential consequences of his actions – that if he were to be killed by the monster, he would be unable to slay the dragon that threatens Una’s people. He lacks the virtues he speaks of, and Una’s presence and suggestions, in combination with his physical strength, allow him to defeat the grotesque female monster. This is not the only time that Una’s guidance will be needed to assist Redcrosse when he is tempted to stray from his designated path.

Redcrosse is not driven by his own desires to compete his goal and fulfill his oath. His mission is an external pressure is apply new female companion, Fidessa, is more successful than Una in her attempts to guide him. But just as Una was true and virtuous, she is false and wicked and capitalizes on his vices in order to lead him astray.

Redcrosse is not the only man who becomes a victim of his own vice at the hands of a woman. Another knight, Sit Terwin, is driven to suicide by the actions of a proud lover who enjoyed seeing him suffer. Left defenseless, Despair persuades him to take his won life.

I donno how to take decisions…

Everything can happen in life, even nothing…

So sometimes we've got to give fate a little kick or else we will stagnate for longer than we are expected to and life will pass us by. Easier to say than to do, especially for me.

i don't like to be responsible for my decisions, and thus i would rather be subjected to them and endure the consequences of irremediable situations.

However that is a luxury that one doesn't always have, especially when we become adults.

But our core values are critical guides for making important decisions. And when in doubt they cut through the fog like a beacon in the night.

Sometimes we go drifting away from them, such that one day we wake up in a place we never meant to be, drifting in a direction we would have never chosen.

Only the strong survive…

Winning and losing….

In our path in life we get to meet a lot of people and some are really great that we never want to let them go, unfortunately we cant...

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. Saves on introductions and goodbyes..

And the future, well it's like a car that we try to drive, but its always in a hurry and its without mercy. It comes without warning us, and never at the right time, and just changes our lives…

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Maybe it's not our duty to know where we are heading to, for we will never know what's waiting for us

In this world every minute's a different show. We may not understand it, we may not necessarily agree with it, but we accept it, and just sort of glide along. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The ride does not require an explanation, just occupants….

Things that don't kill you make you stronger and could make u smile???

Can you turn a vicious circle into a virtual one???Someone told me that it all depends on the way u look at it…

Could it be coz its all in our head?

So in short we should not forget to live a little while chasing our goals… chill and hang out or we will never get to enjoy the fruit of our labor…

But then again we might get too carried away and start messing things up….until some weird thing happens and shows us that sometime we get to be the lucky ones….

Life is just so weird.....

Negative people drain me

Negative or even toxic people are bad news; they are depressing, annoying, obnoxious and erode our self esteem. At some point you ask yourself what’s wrong with me, am I not good enough, until you remember that you don’t really have to get along with every single person you meet.

The trick in here is that I believe in my “6^th sense” or what they call intuition, so I thought I could feel  people's energies and sense whether they were good or bad, so toxic or not toxic. But I guess what I was feeling was more like seeing if they were cute or not, interesting or not, inspiring or not….that’s a trap, coz even though we dress to show our personality type , we cannot really do that …

I guess they were really right when they said never judge a book by its cover…

For a good cause bad doings can be virtuous???

There is no other person who is smart enough, or experienced enough, or informed enough or insightful enough to tell you how to live. That's up to you.


Certainly the advice and guidance of others can be extremely valuable. Yet when it comes to expressing and fulfilling the best of who you are, you are the world's foremost expert.



It feels good to be praised and it hurts to be criticized. Always keep in mind, though, that those who offer their opinions of you cannot possibly see the whole picture.



Your life is your responsibility. That is simultaneously a sobering obligation and a fantastic opportunity.

-- Ralph Marston

Old Cherokee story

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life.


He said to them: " A battle is raging inside me ... it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The old man fixed the children with a firm stare "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too".

They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee replied: "The one you feed"

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i think writing out your thoughts , hammering out how you feel helps to cope somehow
i guess i just feel like switzerland managed to break my heart
but i feel perfectly fine
i feel like i have a child's mind in an adult's body
i feel like i have nothing significant to say anymore