Save A Paper, Make a Difference

Every country in this planet has its own institution of learning. These institutions are quite helpful in generating knowledge in the young minds.

These institutions or also known as the school, is somewhat like a training ground for every individual in which we are taught here how to read, compute, talk and most especially write.

Books are being produced for us to be guided in developing our reading skills. Activity books for mathematics for us to be able to solve are also made. And especially papers are being produced so that we can write on a nice surface. For these materials to be produced, trees are being cut approximately thousands of trees. If we continue on using paper to enrich our knowledge, there is a tendency for the trees to be extinct. This will cause a major problem in the stabilization of our precious mother earth.

We are now facing global warming, every individual has their own way of saving the earth. Some said we must recycle or reuse things,some would suggest reforestation these are indeed fabulous ideas. However as a concerned citizen I do have my own suggestion and that is to stop producing books and papers. We are now in the so-called year of keyboards and monitors why not use these high tech tools in quenching our thirsty minds? I am not implying not to use books and papers in our pursuit of education. My point is simple yet clear, utilize the tools brought about by the advent of technology and let mother Earth flourish and bloom to its fullest beauty.

Fellow life forms in this planet please do save a paper and let the forest become greener so that the earth our only home will become a better place to live on.

Taken for Granted

We people are not that good of appreciating things, that's on thing I learned a few days ago. Simply because we tend to take for granted all the things we have. Like electricity, food, air, water and land. As far as I know they were created to answer our needs and help us survive but COME TO THINK OF IT we are abusing it, we are using it to our own pace to the extent that we are not looking at it's consequences!

Oh come on people, have you not felt the signs yet? The world is about to end, but what are we doing? Instead of doing things to save it, we are even contributing to its destruction! When would be the time for us to do things right, I mean do the right things? There is no other time but now!!! I have done so many foolish things before which had contributed to mother Earth's doom, but here I am begging, let's save our Earth now. This is our only home!

The Voice Within

I am the kind of student who always gets to get the attention of people. In short I make a way to be on the limelight. Guess what? I always succeed. Many people would think that I might be the happiest and most secure person in the world. My life may look perfect in their eyes, but what they do not know is that it's the contrary.

I can easily gain friends and has the guts to entertain people, but unfortunately there is this part of me that longs for something. Even if I'm with many people I still feel alone. I really can't figure out the reason but deep inside I'm unhappy. And sometimes I tend to make fun out of other people just to make myself laugh. I know that I have been posting many positive articles as to how we should face life but beneath those lines are my insecurities and frustrations. Life is never cruel to me but I'm being cruel to myself.

There is this one person who said to me after he had read my blog, he said "you know?how I wish to be like you. Full of life and full of positive energy". But what he does not know is that those posts are intended to cheer me up and lighten my insecurities in life. I may have given the best pieces of advice to those who are weary and insecure but what a contrary, I can;t even let those pieces of advice sink in to my system.

Honestly I'm so lost! It's as if in a dark cave longing for a light, thirsty for something I can't even identify and hungry for things I wish I had.

Thank You Friend

I thought i was perfect,
That needed nobody.
And I didn't expect
For you to come my way.

You bring the light,
In my life that is so dark,
And I learned to fight,
Knowing your on my back.

Thank you friend
For being there,
And showing that this is not the end,
And life can be better

You taught me to be strong,
And to stand on my own
Even when things go wrong,
You've told me that I can go on.

You are really a treasure,
Worth keeping
My friend I'm sure
That you'll not be leaving.

Love at First Dance

It started with a dance,
Accompanied with your glance,
I was so nervous
Because my feelings are becoming obvious.

It feels like floating in the sky,
Every time you'll greet me "hi!"
With just one smile
I can walk a hundred mile.

My days are even brighter,
And my burdens became brighter,
Because of the comfort you give
The pain I felt was relieved

I hope that you'll accept my love,
That's as pure as a white dove,
I hope you'll not deceive
The love I want to give.

Letting Go..,

In our lives, change is constant
Love and weather changes.
Life dies and feelings fades, but we have to let go.
The Earth may be round but the horizon is clear,
To move on we must let go.

Things are found, things are lost.
We tend to worry that much to the things we value a lot.
But we forgot that those were never ours. only lend by the Lord our God.

Love was felt and now has fade
Our hearts was hurt and mind puzzled.
But we will move on
As we let go of things that bother our thoughts.

Life was made to be lived the right way
Though sometimes detour happens, but it still goes on.
Letting go means to go to the future
And leave the past.

A True Friend's Breeze

Sitting on the bench, with a wine glass softly gripped
I felt alone, and then my mind suddenly dripped
To a memory of a friend whom I knew
From a long time ago who was then in my life so new.

As I take a sip of the wine on my hand,
I suddenly felt the breeze of a friend who once held my hand
To shout out loud the feelings I have inside
And for my fear in life's hurdles to subside.

Her breeze seems to caress me in my lonely times
And lifted me up in my weary times.
She made these rhymes in my mind
As I try to reminisce a friend, who was one of a kind.

A true friend's breeze is unique
Bearing such characteristic.
Back then I was shattered, and she made me whole
And held my hand and pull me out the hole.

Despite Imperfections

"Don't judge a book by it's cover". This is the common quote we hear especially when we defend others imperfections. Just this afternoon in our R. E. class we were task to list the name of persons under the personality they belong. Everyone did that of course.

But to my surprise just when I thought I already know my self, I realized I do not really know my self.

"Some characteristics listed on the board are very impossible for me to have", I said to myself. But the flattering part is that those characteristics which I thought I don't have was possessed by me according to some of my classmates. There is this girl who hit the very soft part of my heart, basically because she described me as not a discriminating person which I thought is not true. But when she continued, I realized that though I'm not perfect I'm still considerate. And being described as humble, I am now challenged to live that life and be revered the right way. This situation did awaken me and instilled in me the thought that it's not because we carry ourselves and live our own life we know ourselves a hundred percent. There are some thing within us that we are not aware we have, this characteristics are only seen by the people around us and we may not be able to know that we possess those until they tell us. It was so flattering but challenging. By this I mean, that because of that event I am now summoned to be a better me. In other words, this served as an instrument to live my life the right way.

In conclusion, I can say that you're not out to please anybody but you'll be surprised when you will know that people feel blessed and fortunate because of your presence. Do not say that you are the worst person in the world, because despite imperfections, some people can appreciate the perfection you have and you do in your own pace. In other words, you can only know and measure yourself when people will give you the statistics and standards of measuring oneself.

Life after Death

Life after death may be a great question each of us asks. Well, a while ago in my HUM2 class I was enlightened with an idea given by our instructor. It was not a literal explanation but rather an analogy. By this I mean he compared death to sorrows, hopelessness and problems; he referred life to hope and happiness.

That idea eased the burdens that I am carrying because right now as I am trying to furnish this post I am preoccupied with certain things that bothers me. Life on earth is like the life of a phoenix, after having lived certain years of a healthy life he faces a challenge that weakens him, thus causing him to die. He turns into ash, but on a certain time he rises again carrying with him new strengths and new tactics to help him survive in this cruel world.

We all know that life is full of challenges. We can never avoid it, it is inevitable. The only option we have is to face it in an optimistic way in a sense that we consider some points that things does not always go our way. Sometimes we tend to feel hopeless when in fact hope is just around the corner. You know it is easier to give pieces of adbice as to how one should live life, but I myself needs one. But the only thing I do to make my life worthwhile is that I always pray to God for me to be enlightened in my daily struggles in life. Hopefully all of us should have the gift of peace of mind so we can make the world a better place to live. There is a speaker who once said that we must acquaint thyself with God. True indeed we would be nothing without God.

I know that problems may cause us to be weary but remember, there is no such thing as hopelessness it is only a notion. The truth is we are always endowed with hope all we have to do is live with that hope so that we can rise like a phoenix. Do the things we must and attain success. As it is said successful persons are those with bruised knees.

The Unforgettable Battle

If there's a date I can consider unforgettable that would be November 4, 2009. Due to the very tough challenge life has laid to me, and that is I WAS ROBBED.

I was walking alone in the streets of Polomolok after going to the internet cafe with some of my friends. I opted to roam around for a while because I know I will be bored if I will be home that early. Then, I met three guys whom I thought could be good friends. We were talking as if we knew each other. While we were talking, the other guy stood up and wrap his hands around my neck, I started to feel nervous, until they declared hold up. I was in shock. I could hardly utter any word, and it didn't occur to me that the event was real. I had not find the time to shout for help, for a certain weapon (that I could hardly identify) was being pointed to me. I got so scared that I felt like a puppet obeying each and every command they give. They took my cellphone, my USB flash drive and my wallet with two hundred pesos. I was really afraid, what if they will be taking the most precious thing that I have, my life. Luckily they didn't, well if they did I my have not posted this article. I still would like to thank God for that.

Despite the thing that had happen to me, I pity those people. Because they committed a crime and hold up me for a very low amount. I said to my self they're so pitiful. They made a sin not worth suffering. I do not wish them ill, but I pray that one day life will be able to teach them the lesson they must learn.

Patience

"Patience is a virtue" as it is said.

Well, true indeed. I am an advocate of this principle, basically because I do believe that in this life things are hard and never easy. Come to think of it, if things were that easy do you think all of us will prosper? I doubt.

The moment I decided to live with my aunt and her family I told myself that this will not be as easy as it looks like, especially knowing the fact that she (my aunt) is strict. Well what can I do, I got nothing to send me to school. The first few months of my stay was indeed a challenge which I think I could not surpass. I get to wash dishes, clean the house and look after my cousins. These chores are so hard for me during the first time. I am not used to this kind of living. But luckily I have adjusted already.

Back then, I always get what I want with just a snap but fate was not that good for me and my family, we lost everything. That was the chapter of my life which I enjoyed and I regret some part of it. But what else is new? Life is comprised of a never ending UPs and DOWNs. Now I am facing the new chapter of my life bringing with me the principle "patience is a virtue".

If there is one great thing I can impart o people it would not be the knowledge that I have acquired in the for walls of the classroom but rather the experience I had that taught me to strive and be patient. If in my previous years in this world, I had lived life in a I will call instant life, I now regret it. With the lesson I got from that snap life I will live life the way it should be. A life lived for others and a life facing challenges with patience. With this chapter of my unusual life I now know that patience takes a person to places and helps break the horizon.

Be patient and life will be smooth...,