Thursday, December 13, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
I think every year
we add to our life is precious and counts. I would never want to go back
and be younger, I feel like my life just gets better the older I get, I
am much wiser than I ever was when I was younger.
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I however appreciate all
the aspects of life when this question is posed. Yes, I think most of us would
consider ourselves young at heart, and our body want to be young but with age
comes wisdom, and knowingness. So which is it? When I was young, I wanted to be
older because I believed that wisdom comes with age. As I got older, I made some bad mistakes, and I felt young
and foolish.
If I didn't know how old I was, I
think I would be 26 years old.
Currently I am 23 years old, turning 24 in April (2013). I know this may seem like a random
number to choose, but I have always seen myself as a mature person. Because I have a dream that at
the age of 26, I want to have my own house and my own car I want to be fully
independent. That having been said, I still think that I am someone who still
has child-like qualities and still likes to be spontaneous and have a bit of
fun.
However, they say age is just a
number. I am not sure what kind of Captain Obvious came up with that saying
thus, it does hold some truth. Think about it yourself...
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether
at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Of all the forms of courage the ability to laugh is the most important
According
to Wiki, Laughing is a reaction to certain stimuli. It may ensue from hearing a
joke, being tickled, or other stimuli. Most commonly, it is considered a visual
expression of a number of positive emotional states, such as joy, mirth,
happiness, relief, etc.
However,
laughter is a part of human behaviour regulated by the brain, helping humans
clarify their intentions in social interaction and providing an emotional
context to conversations. Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a
group — it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughter
is sometimes seen as contagious, and the laughter of one person can itself
provoke laughter from others as a positive feedback.
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Furthermore,
of all the forms of courage the ability to laugh is the most important. Many of
us take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is typically associated with joy. Joy
is shown on our faces – your smile, the sound of your laughter, the light tone
in your voice – these are all indicators of joy to the human eye and ear.
Keeping your joy is a decision that you have to make every day.
Think
about it, there are so many little things that we allow to steal our joy (if we
allow them) on a daily basis, such as the coffee at work not being served on
time or someone else’s grumpy response towards your friendly greeting. If you
look for it, you’ll find a million things that can steal your joy every day,
that why laughing is a decision that you have to make and probably remind
yourself of every day.
One
good example I could make is me, I love to have fun and laugh because it keeps
me going in life, and I also enjoy seeing people laughing or having fun because
of all forms of courage the ability to laugh is the most important… So let’s
keep laughing…
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Monday, November 5, 2012
An Inspirational Message for a Friend
I know there are times in life that you feel as though you can't do anything right. You never seem to be able to please anyone and everyone around you seems to always be going against you. You may feel stupid, unworthy, and even unloved. These feelings may lead you to hate yourself or those around you. Hate leads to nothing but pain.
Pain only causes more pain and nothing good comes of it. Remember you have a choice in life. You do not have to choose pain. There are better things in life to choose from. First, let me thank you for being here. I appreciate everything you do even when it you have made a mistake. I know you’re learning, and learning is always good. You do not have to try and please me. I will always be there for you, in good times and in bad.
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Remember, do not try to please everyone, this is a losing battle. You have a big heart and this is why things bother you. Your heart is what makes you so special; never lose your heart to another. Keep a bit of it for yourself. Know that I will always love you even when you hate me.
I know you are passionate, and that is something I respect. Just don't hate me for too long. You are not stupid. If you make a mistake it is ok. I know you will learn from it. Stupidity only comes when you refuse to learn. I have faith in you. I know you will learn. You are worthy of everything life has to offer. Take advantage of this, because life is there for the taking. Most important of all, remember I love you. Why you ask? Because my dear you and I are one, just look in the mirror.
By Rita Collin...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood trauma
"The
stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant
revision. The slender threads of causality are rewoven and reinterpreted as we
attempt to explain to ourselves and others how we became the people we are.
Certainly we are shaped by them and must learn from them if we are to avoid the
repetitious mistakes that make us feel trapped in a long-running drama of our
own authorship. Because acceptance of responsibility for what we do and how we
feel requires an act of will, it is natural to blame people in our pasts,
especially our parents, for not doing a better job. No child escapes unscathed
from parental abuse or neglect. It is important to go about examining this
sympathetically, in a way that emphasizes learning but rejects the assumption
that even the most awful experiences define our lives forever. All of us have
endured events and losses about which we had no choice. These include the
families into which we were born, the way we were treated as children, the
deaths and divorces of those close to us. It is not hard to make a case that we
have been adversely affected by events and people outside our control. The idea
that we have to sit and talk about the problems we face and the things we have
tried that have failed implies a slow and unwieldy process that has at its core
an uncomfortable assumption: We are responsible for most of what happens to us."
G. Livingston
G. Livingston
I was
born without a silver spoon. However, Independent
of what happens during our childhood we always have the power to control our
future. We can have dreams and work towards them with all our energy and make
the rest of our lives an incredible turn around.
I must say that I was very lucky as a child to have good, caring parents and family, have the opportunity to go to school and have no traumatic experiences. (Sarcastic) But i so wish my childhood was not as bad as it was back then.
However I believe that a person that came from a traumatic childhood also has a shot at making it in life, some of them have even more will to do so and achieve more great things in their lives than some that had all the support systems in place. Of course the opposite also happens, but the possibility is still there.
I guess those with the will to change and make their lives better will not only improve their lives, but break a vicious cycle that would go on from generation to generation.
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Only bad things happen quickly.
“Only bad things happen quickly,
virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually
a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying
relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are
among life’s primary virtues. ”
Then you want to hold on to something, because everything is
moving so fast, everything is blurry and you can't breathe because it feels
like the air is being squeezed out of your lungs, squeezed in such a painful
way words will never be able to describe it.
I must say I completely disagree with this statement, for me
all the good things happen quickly. When I'm having a good time, time literally
flies by. It’s when you're dealing with bad things in your personal or work
life that the day never seems to end.
This is because people only realize or are only cognitive of
bad things that happen in their lives, how many times do we hear of good news
in the media? It is highly unlikely that good news gets reported on in newspapers
why? Because bad news sells and bad decision make good story.
Bad
decisions make good stories, organisation sometime do bad things for good
reason and sometimes organisation made bad decision for a good reason. However,
sometimes we made a decision without knowing if it is the right decision or
not, but as soon as we find out about the decision we made and it is indeed a
bad decision, we find a way to correct that terrible decision we have made, and
for one to correct their mistake, they need a good story…
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