Pen and Paper. I Love YOU. Everyday, I ask God to make me a better person, and everyday He gives me that opportunity—to meet new people and make good and true friends out of them; to remind others about the goodness that is in their own hearts; to help them realize how beautiful and precious they are; to help, to teach, to share, to foster growth.
What a sweet, sweet way to live, being able to shun darkness and negativity out of your heart and, at the same time, being able to inspire others to do the same. Salamat po Lord. I feel You working through me, filling me with love and peace and wisdom that is from You, and there’s no lovelier feeling I could possibly have.
Yes, there will be challenges, and pretty soon, I probably won’t feel as light as I do now. Soon enough I will make mistakes, say and do the wrong things that will hurt a few people, …mess up. Pero I’m still thankful, kasi I know that whatever happens I will always be able to come back to this. To You. :)
Help me inspire more hearts to turn back to You. Not for my glory, but for Yours; not for the fulfillment of my will, but of Yours and Yours alone. I love YOU! Scarred, Healed, Strong, Real. Recently I’ve noticed a lot of changes in me.
Like how it doesn’t take much to make me happy anymore. The simpler things are, the better. I do still have the same passion as before, the same urge to make things beautiful, but this time I’m more aware of my limitations. I still want to experience life, you know, live it to the fullest, but now I’m more reminded of my priorities too, plus the importance of being realistic. Now I plan ahead, unlike before when almost everything I tried to do was out of mere impulse. Also, now I’m more able to distinguish the things that are genuinely important—faith, time, career—from the things that I only thought were important, that I thought were what I needed—fame, fortune, all that gibber. Now, I’m able to listen more, and to judge less. To see greater, and be more selfless.
Yep, I think this is what they call growing-up. I’m not saying that being young and wild and free was never beautiful. I’m actually glad I was vulnerable for most parts of my life. If not for that, I would never have become what I am now: scarred, healed, strong, real. :) Confidence is a positive trait. An inner strength. A form of self-respect that is undeniably very helpful these days.
Humility, on the other hand, is bigger, deeper, and far above par. Having it makes a person transcend beyond his own innate need for affirmation, making him accomplish more things, being driven purely by passion. It is having the knowledge that you are able, without the shabby need of announcing it to the world.
This latter thing is what I think most of us should aim for.
 While most of us only know RMS Titanic from the movie, these men know her from real life. RMS Titanic: 100 Years
I watched “Titanic: A Century Later” (Nat Geo) last night. For the first half hour, I thought it was gibberish and was honestly about to completely lose interest, when one of the members of the team, Bill Sauder I think was his name, began talking about the discovery of a leather satchel full of perfumes which belonged to one of the passengers of the ship. Sauder has dedicated his entire life to researching and studying about what remained of the ship as well as its artifacts.
I don’t remember his exact words, but I remember him saying something like, “When we opened the vial of perfume, a heavenly scent filled the lab. When you see something as old as the Titanic, you think of the smell as dead, decaying. But the perfume, which had been sitting on the ocean floor for 90 years, when we opened it, it smelled like… heaven. It made you think of flowers, and all things lovely. It was truly overwhelming.” By then, he began sobbing. “I am never going to forget that moment for the rest of my life.”
Read More  You are one small life form in an incomprehensibly vast universe. In no way are you superior over another. Never dismiss humility. Be grateful for life, both of yours and of the world’s. Humility. As of today, we have only been able to discover about 5% of the ocean, including the vast landscape and the teeming life beneath it. In fact, we have more detailed maps of the moon and Mars’ surface than of the land underwater. Earth is made up of 71% water, meaning we actually don’t know much about the world we live in! So unlike most of us believe nowadays, WE DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING.
You are one small life form in an incomprehensibly vast universe. In no way are you superior over another. Never dismiss humility. Be grateful for life, both of yours and of the world’s.  Break away from the false standards that surround and challenge you everyday. Be original. Be true. Be steadfast. Be you. Be You. I have great respect for original artists, especially the ones who are only beginning to make a name for themselves. I have great respect too, for the people who support them while the rest of the world is busy ignoring them. Going out there and declaring your love for something you very strongly believe in without much assurance that you will be approved for it takes so much courage, especially nowadays when it’s so easy for most people to judge talent and dismiss it as something unworthy. “This is not standard, so get rid of it.” Read More The Most Amazing Way To Live. My heart is filled with a certain warmth that I want to share with the world. It comes to me through words, through music, through images I want to put into life. How to get it out there for the world to experience? I might not know yet. Why am I haunted with such strong feelings, such a strong calling? I’m clueless! I just know I was born for it; for the expression of art and it’s many beautiful forms. Dedicating my life to the declaration of this warmth I speak of, of this passion, of this love; for me, this is simply the sweetest, most amazing way to live. Thank You, Lord, for this big, spacious heart that You have put so many things into. :)
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RSSI smile. I laugh. I feel. I cry. I stumble. I bleed. I hurt. I heal. I rise up. I sing. I write. I see. I live. I love. I am HUMAN.
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