"LIVING IS LEARNING ABOUT LIFE"
There comes a time when you must stand alone. That you must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams. That you must be willing to make sacrifices. That you must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities, so your final goal can be achieved. That sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer or clear stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if it would be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
As there are times when you must take extra chances and create your own realities. You must be strong or courageous enough to at least try to make your life better. To be confident enough that you won't settle for a compromise just to get by. You have to appreciate yourself by allowing the opportunities to grow, to develop, and find your true sense of purpose in life.
So, don't stand in someone else's shadow, when it's your own sunlight that should lead the way.
If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.
You must be thankful that you don't have everything you desire for if you did, what would there be to look forward to? And when you don't know something, be thankful for it gives you the opportunity to learn. As well, be thankful for the difficult times you have had, during those times, you grow. Moreover, be thankful for your limitations because it give you the opportunities to further improve.
Make your every day counts. Appreciate every moment and take from it, everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked before and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't, no one else will believe you either.
Also, you must be thankful for your own mistakes, as it taught you some valuable lessons in life.
You must be thankful too, whenever you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference. And it's too easy to be thankful for the good things and life of rich fulfilment comes, to those who are also thankful for their setbacks. Be yourself to find a way and be thankful for your troubles, as it become your own blessings!
You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live with it!
TONY R. MONTERAS (malaking ibon)
OFW, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
28 January 2009 / 02 Safar 1430 H
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