Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. The universe in in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.
All we have to do is look around. We are so busy concentrating on the small things in our lives that we often forget the bigger world around us, the larger picture and the beautiful things in that picture. How often do we stop to really appreciate something beautiful? When was the last time we stopped to admire something? There's beauty in anything and everything, from the smallest of antiques to the tallest tree in the rainforest, from the encourage smile of a friend to the passionate gaze of a lover. Beauty is everywhere. All we have to do it look.
Pretty pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less that perfect.
Everyone has a different personality, each of us we our own individuality, our likes, dislikes. Everyone's different in their own way, yet we all share the same similarity: we're all different. Shouldn't we be more accepting of each other? We don't have to like everyone but the least we could do is not judge before you actually get to know someone. Looks can be deceiving and we often don't realise before it's too late. I'm sure everyone has subconsciously judged someone before, then we find out later what a nice person they are, realising you should have been kinder.
We don't have to change ourselves for anyone because that's who we are. Those who love us, love us because they can love our qualities and overlook our faults. Those who want us to change aren't looking deep enough and aren't out real friends. What I'm saying is, don't judge a book by its cover (yes it's cliched but people never seem to get the message). Just think before you say anything and treat others the way you would like to be treated. You never know when it's too late.
Why does it seem like my blog has stalled again? Well, for once, it's not because the fact that I had gotten sick of it but actually because I've been very very busy for the past week. Surprisingly, it wasn't homework or assignments from school, but rather an interesting, beneficial course to learn longevitology. Now I won't go into huge detail about what that is but it's basically using the human body to receive energy from the universe to energise the cells, enabling every organ to function normally.
Although we cannot save the entire world, we can save the sufferers in front of us, thus saving the entire world within us.
This course wasn't just about learning what to do when other people ask you to reduce their pain and dull their suffering. It taught us important lessons that should be applied in life. We should approach life with an open heart, a heart fill with love and understanding, not jealousy and hatred. We are only one person among millions in the world and we cannot help everyone but we are capable of assisting those in need around us and in our everyday lives. We are capable of reaching out with our two hands and lessen the pain of others. Through this, we can lighten the lives of so many others, bringing them happiness, hope and love.
This quote has taught me a lot and I believe we should all be grateful to those who have helped us, guided us, taught us, but most importantly, to our parents who gave us the gift of life.
Equip yourself with the motive of love, patience, concern and compassion; follow the principles of avoidance of desires for fame, gain and reward; remain devoid of personal passion and greed; uphold the spirit that the purpose of life is to serve others; and contribute our love and concern for our society, with the faith that these endeavors will help develop the finer and kinder side of human nature, thus enabling our families to become happier, our society more harmonised, our country stronger and humans healthier.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
Remember when we were little kids and we used to make up imaginary characters and stories about how we were princess or superheroes? What happened to the wonderful creative ideas we could come up with? The magical unicorns, saving the world, the crazy dreams like flying to the moon, seem to all change into worries about school. Just because we're older, it doesn't mean we can't let our imagination run wild again. We can still have fun with our fantasies, whisking us away from reality, even if it's only for just a moment, because even if it's only just for a little while, we can escape into a perfect world, a perfect place, a perfect dream.
Imagination defines where our limits are, so let's open our minds and let our vivid thoughts be free.
[Ehh, that sound kinda corny lol. Ignore if you think it's bad ^.^]
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
The human race is selfish. It's a trait that come with being human. We are often preoccupied by our own needs that we forget, there are many others around us. We always do what's best for ourselves that we forget to look at how our selfish actions may hurt others. There are so many small things we can do to brighten someone's day like listening to them while they confide in us, giving them a hug to comfort them, an encouraging smile, a thank you. The littlest things can make such a huge difference in someone's life. We should give, no matter how big or how small, to those who are less fortunate than us. Doesn't it feel good to be generous? To make someone happier? Because giving allows us to emerge from our selfishness, even if it's just for a moment and frees us from the self-centered shell that holds us captive.
Pain makes you stronger so embrace it and you will move forward.
Pain can be physical or emotional; everyone knows that but often people don't see it in others. When we are in pain, we often go about hiding it from our friends and our family, trying to prevent them from worrying, putting more pressure on ourselves to bear the pain alone. We are often blinded by the pain to misjudge our own ability to tolerate the pain and sometimes, even when we know we are hurting ourselves, we continue to do so.
Take for example a person trying to lose weight. They know that by eating less, they will consume less energy and if they exercise more, they will burn more energy. So the logic behind that is eat less, exercise more. They know that it's bad to each so little yet they continue to do so despite this knowledge because they know that it will give them the results they want, regardless of the damages to themselves.
We all do it at some point in our lives. There is a delicate balance between enduring a lot of pain and going through too much pain. Sometimes, the pain is just overwhelming that it makes our whole world come tumbling down. When do we know to stop bearing it alone? Maybe we don't. A lot of times, we just have to guess. What we need to understand is that there will be many people who are there for us every step of the way. These are our true friends who could pull you through anything. These are our real friends, our friends for life.
Reality is much more complex than any judgement of right and wrong, encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based of a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world view are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.
This is so true, for all of us. We judge before we know them well enough to understand that they don't have everything they wish they had, life doesn't always provide them with the best, their life hasn't been the easiest. We often judge people because of what they have and what they don't have but we forget to look deeper, into their hearts, where it really matters. For example, an extremely wealthy person could be saving everything they can to save the environment. It isn't because they don't have enough to spend, they do, but they prefer to give rather than take.
This applies to multiple things in life. Each and every one of us are brought up in a different environment, hence our values and morals are different. Based on how we are brought up, it reflects how we think and act. Perhaps we don't know any different. Perhaps we've never had the chance to experience the changes. Of course, everyone has their own problems in life. We'll experience a multitude of them throughout our lifetime. Depending on what our goals are and what we want from ourselves, we act in accordance to those. It is not the similarities that brings us together but the differences amongst ourselves and the ability to accept them.
I'm taking this time to say, please understand that I'm not hurting myself in any way. Because of the circumstances, I have chosen to set the goal quite high. It does not mean that I'm setting an impossible aim that I will never achieve; it just means I'm going to have to work much harder to achieve it. It's something that's bound to come along with being a dancer but you have to fully dedicate yourself to it.
You will spend your whole life searching for that perfect person, even past the high school relationship, past marriage, a family, you will still be searching. Love is an emotion you can have, but never experience. Love is always there but you just have to trigger it. The day you truly love is the day you die because no one can truly find love until they've spent their entire lives searching.
Someone told me this while we were on the the topic of opinions on high school relationships. Love is a hard concept to grasp. It was meant to be easy but it is us who make it so complicated. We search for the other half of us for a long time. Some of us are lucky to have found that perfect person while many others spend their whole lives searching. Not all of us will fully understand love in our lifetime but we can try our hardest to love and to be loved. I just think that some of us really will find that perfect person in our lifetime; we just have to persevere and never give up. We shouldn't let rejection and heartbreak ruin our chances of finding true love. Instead, we should get up every time we fail because pain makes us stronger.
I never gave them hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell.
I swear this happens to me all the time. I be blunt and they take it wrong, I be subtle and they tell me I'm not telling them enough. Is there no way out? Of course, lying is definitely not the way to go. Nothing is achieved through lying so we should always tell the truth. When we do something bad, it's okay to own up to it; we make mistakes in order for us to learn. There's no point trying to hide it as it will be uncovered sooner or later. We don't have to hide our mistakes and lie to prevent ourselves from feeling embarrassed but it is when the truth is discovered, we are truly embarrassed. Why hide from the truth? Face it. We should worry about what others think, as long as we know it's the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of. They can take it however they like but you know you're at no fault. Live the truth because it feels so much better than living a lie.
