Hirap naman ng people have gotten used to seeing me always wearing a grin on my face and basically almost all the time enjoying life as if it is my last day on earth.. Opps, knock on the wood three times... Hahahaha
I have to admit that I am the kind of person who takes life seriously but lightly. Huh oh... Let me please explain this seeming irony. Ganito po yun. I see life as one beautiful opportunity that the Ultimate Supramundane Being has given to me. It is a great way for me to touch people, be with them, enjoy God's creation, be loved, to share whatever i can to others among the so many numerous tendencies I can extend to myself and, most importantly, to others. It is a super good gift anyone can have. Kaya nga, I really show off a happy person me.
But, truth is, I am just a human being. I have my downs also. I sometimes have nights of my soul when I would dwell on too much loneliness and hardships usually caused by lonesomeness and problems in the family and friends. Well, I can emphatically say that I can handle all of my personal problems. But, I can not withstand the pains of knowing that a loved-one has one. It just grips and crashes my heart. Thus, in my solitude, I shed tears. But, I just blurt it out only when I am all by myself. Because, I can not show that to other people. Well, yes, I understand that crying does not make me half the man that I am. You see, I cry.. I just don't flaunt it. It a simple way of showing vulnerability.
Anita Kelley said "The more information one knows about you, the more power they have over you." Well, let me point out something from this. That power will only become possible if they know your soft side. But, if they only know your strong side, what power do they have over you? Well, they may try to look further and beyond on how they can beat your strength. But, on the other hand, they will have a harder time.
Thus, I continue to show that problems don't pose a threat to me. I show the people around me that I am strong and that I can handle almost everything fair and square whatever is happening deep inside me. To me, the latter is immaterial. What is important is that the people continue to perceive me as a hard-to-beat type of person; some who laughs at problems that they just shy away from me. So, they would look up to me, consider me as someone worthy of their emulation, an idol to reckon with and so on and so forth. Knowing these perceptions of others boost my morale further.
Although, at the end of the day, who is suffering? Me? Hmm, do they know that? They don't. And that is what matters most to me. They find me strong; a fighter; a positivist.. This is the kind of person everybody loves. Someone that they can depend on. Someone who they could turn to when they have no one on their side -- their foundation, their inspiration, their source of something good.
To some of my friends, of my students, of those who I do not know but regard me as such somehow, this is the kind of persona that I must continue to live by and imbibe in them. I know the danger when one they would find out how rotten, or sorrowful or faint or soft or human I am inside.. But that is just hypothetical as of the moment. Tomorrow is never a promise in the first place. Today is one thing that is for sure. I will just cross the bridge when I am there. And pretending even to myself, I can face the world tomorrow whatever happens.
Meanwhile, I will continue to live by my seeming facade of "never failing to enjoy life cause it is too short and so beautiful to be wasted". I am who I am because of how others perceive me to be. And I love it very much.. And tonight when I go home, resting on my bed later after I switch off the light as I go to sleep, again, I shall blankly look up to the ceiling and ponder: "When will this quizzical deception ever end?"
And I shall have the same answer: "As long as others continue to be the way that they are towards me.." And I shall close my eyes and wait for the new day just in case it comes again. Meanwhile, I want to have a good night's rest and text everybody: "Good night, god bless, mizyah much, take care... -=[dragonfly]=-"
mwaaahh...
I have to admit that I am the kind of person who takes life seriously but lightly. Huh oh... Let me please explain this seeming irony. Ganito po yun. I see life as one beautiful opportunity that the Ultimate Supramundane Being has given to me. It is a great way for me to touch people, be with them, enjoy God's creation, be loved, to share whatever i can to others among the so many numerous tendencies I can extend to myself and, most importantly, to others. It is a super good gift anyone can have. Kaya nga, I really show off a happy person me.
But, truth is, I am just a human being. I have my downs also. I sometimes have nights of my soul when I would dwell on too much loneliness and hardships usually caused by lonesomeness and problems in the family and friends. Well, I can emphatically say that I can handle all of my personal problems. But, I can not withstand the pains of knowing that a loved-one has one. It just grips and crashes my heart. Thus, in my solitude, I shed tears. But, I just blurt it out only when I am all by myself. Because, I can not show that to other people. Well, yes, I understand that crying does not make me half the man that I am. You see, I cry.. I just don't flaunt it. It a simple way of showing vulnerability.
Anita Kelley said "The more information one knows about you, the more power they have over you." Well, let me point out something from this. That power will only become possible if they know your soft side. But, if they only know your strong side, what power do they have over you? Well, they may try to look further and beyond on how they can beat your strength. But, on the other hand, they will have a harder time.
Thus, I continue to show that problems don't pose a threat to me. I show the people around me that I am strong and that I can handle almost everything fair and square whatever is happening deep inside me. To me, the latter is immaterial. What is important is that the people continue to perceive me as a hard-to-beat type of person; some who laughs at problems that they just shy away from me. So, they would look up to me, consider me as someone worthy of their emulation, an idol to reckon with and so on and so forth. Knowing these perceptions of others boost my morale further.
Although, at the end of the day, who is suffering? Me? Hmm, do they know that? They don't. And that is what matters most to me. They find me strong; a fighter; a positivist.. This is the kind of person everybody loves. Someone that they can depend on. Someone who they could turn to when they have no one on their side -- their foundation, their inspiration, their source of something good.
To some of my friends, of my students, of those who I do not know but regard me as such somehow, this is the kind of persona that I must continue to live by and imbibe in them. I know the danger when one they would find out how rotten, or sorrowful or faint or soft or human I am inside.. But that is just hypothetical as of the moment. Tomorrow is never a promise in the first place. Today is one thing that is for sure. I will just cross the bridge when I am there. And pretending even to myself, I can face the world tomorrow whatever happens.
Meanwhile, I will continue to live by my seeming facade of "never failing to enjoy life cause it is too short and so beautiful to be wasted". I am who I am because of how others perceive me to be. And I love it very much.. And tonight when I go home, resting on my bed later after I switch off the light as I go to sleep, again, I shall blankly look up to the ceiling and ponder: "When will this quizzical deception ever end?"
And I shall have the same answer: "As long as others continue to be the way that they are towards me.." And I shall close my eyes and wait for the new day just in case it comes again. Meanwhile, I want to have a good night's rest and text everybody: "Good night, god bless, mizyah much, take care... -=[dragonfly]=-"
mwaaahh...
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