Anhyeong and Hello again!
Had been on a prolonged hiatus, sorry and I shall apologize!!.Been busy with work lately and have no time to squeeze my blogging into the packed schedule.
Well, Chocolate just reminded me that the blog was DEAD! haha , what a joke. I've not been blogging as I've been on corporate trips and those places or countries I shall say do not provide fast internet access.
About the 16 topics, I shall stop forecasting it for this week and will resume next week as planned.
Today I'm going to share a short story that've been on my head for a long time....
What if someone knocked on your door today and asked, “Could I sell you some misery today? We have all kinds for sale.”
Would you buy it? Of course not, but many of us, including me, have bought it from time to time.
Negative living doesn’t work for me. I refuse to let my day be ruined by complaining or murmuring. I’m not perfect by any means, but I am determined to be happy. Maybe I have to work on it, but it’s worth it.
This I know, “Today is a brand new day. I want it to sparkle with verbal sunshine. Even if my day isn’t what I want it to be I’m going to wear a happy face.”
Life is too short to be miserable. I want the celebration of the gift of life to begin in you and me.
Nothing causes me to be in the pits like my computer when it’s not working. I get so frustrated. Such was last week. I had to have a new “mouse” so my husband went to the store. Once we had the mouse then the keyboard wouldn’t work.
My husband found the cable wasn’t plugged in. I was happy my husband who didn’t know anything about computers figured it out anyway. I asked him how he knew all that. He said, “I prayed and asked God.” Here I was stewing and moaning yet in a span of 20 minutes everything turned out all right. Look at the time I wasted. I wonder if my blood pressure didn’t go up!
In the midst of a problem how many of us lose it when in reality it’s not that important to lose our peace. You and I have blessings untold everyday if we would only stop and realize it.
With so many blessings how can any of us be unhappy? Even in a crisis we can find something to be thankful for and that changes attitudes. I have to say it again, “We all have more blessings than problems.” So what do we have to lose? Everything!
The next time you meet a crisis, stop and remember, “There’s something good here and I’m going to find it and that will overcome the bad.”
Today, I'm going to tap into a little about LOVE but I'm going into much details as we have not covered Happiness yet.
Love...What is Love?
Every individual would have different answers, you may try asking, but let me tell you, you're going through a long winding path and get answers which are long winded.
Short cut..... If you want the wholesome answer try asking you mothers and ask them what really is love?
Love is......
GIVING UNCONDTIONALLY, meaning you give without asking anything back or anything as a repayment from a specific person.
Love comes from the heart itself and within.
Love is a strange thing. It can be the most amazing feeling in the world, or it can really hurt, but in the end love is something most, if not all of us, will face. While there are many different ways to define love and there are many different ways to love someone (even yourself), here is a general guide to loving.
1.Say it. When you say the words "I Love You", they should carry with them the desire to show someone that you love them, not what you simply want to feel. When you say it make sure you really mean it and are willing to do anything for that special person.
2.Empathize. Put yourself in someone else's shoes. Rather than impose your own expectations or attempt to control them, try to understand how they feel, where they come from, and who they are. Realize how they could also love you back just as well.
3.Love unconditionally. If you cannot love another person without attaching stipulations, then it is not love at all, but deep-seated opportunism (one who makes the most of an advantage, often unmindful of others). If your interest is not in the other person as such, but rather in how that person can enhance your experience of life, then it is not unconditional. If you have no intention of improving that person’s life, or allowing that person to be themselves and accepting them as they are, and not who you want them to be, then you are not striving to love them unconditionally.
4.Expect nothing in return. That doesn't mean you should allow someone to mistreat or undervalue you. It means that giving love does not guarantee receiving love. Try loving just for the sake of love. Realize that someone may have a different way of showing his or her love for you, do not expect to be loved back in exactly the same way.
5.Realize it can be lost. If you realize that you can lose the one you love, then you have a greater appreciation of what you have. Think how lucky you are to have someone to love. Don't make an idol of the person you love. This will place them under undue pressure and will likely result in you losing them.
Questions to ponder upon and ask one self.
1) Who am I ? (not physically)
2) What are my goals?
3) What is my purpose?
All these cannot be answered in just a day, but is can be obtained when journeying throught life.
One must be spiritually, mentally and physically 'conjoined' to achieve unlimited happiness as they grow more satisfied with life and do not look out onto other people and would not be jealous of their luxuries. One must look inwards and not outwards. Looking inwards, you will look at your character and yourself; what have you done and so on.
Milk