Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012

The Journey

It all started in a fine day, restless as I was I had to set off, I had given up that one thing that kept me moving in town but all I knew was good things are coming my optimistic mind.....and yes I arrived to my destination, I will call it destination 1. Things don't seem to change ( thinking deeply) five years ago this place was like this am still is like this. What makes me sad is all tis young ladies most of them my age while others younger than me have kids and not married some just left school due to pregnancy or more just coz school was hectic, I really feel sad as I write this out, my head is pondering how can I help em, do they need empowering, or need to atleast learn how to use contraceptive pills and safe sex, that's Generation Y, I haven't realized why they rush into this stuffs while they have a bright future ahead if only they could be patient enough. But then what can you tell them while you as a parent can not afford to cater for them, I saw this neighbors children age btwn 3-4 all sty without food at lunch and eat dinner, and while the older ones age 11-14 go out and find ways to make end meet. That sad story is of a 14 years old girl who is now pregnant I wonder who will nurse who, am really touched by her, we friend if same age gave birth few months ago and well her mom is taking care of two kids. What has this world turned into? What can I do to make their lives better is one qns that I haven't got a clue to. Just few days of staying in destination 1 has made me realize that I shouldn't take life for granted and be grateful with whatever little I get. Am heading to destination 2, I hope this world is way better than any that I know.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Why I Write

Well I came across this book and after reading it I realized that of all the books that I had read its one of a kind. Google it and just read it you will be amazed by how writers know how to write.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Mothers Loves is Forever

For most mothers, the love they feel for their children is a strong and powerful bond that will continue throughout their lives. The love a mother feels for her child is the same whether the child was grown in their own body or in their heart, as when a mother adopts a child.

My children are dear to me and I find it hard to see them in pain. I feel like a

mother hen watching over her baby chicks. Children are tough in some areas, but always need to know they are loved, wanted and are priceless to us, at any age. Even when our children don't need us any longer to tie their shoestrings or to wipe their noses, they still need to know that we care. Often a child will not feel the impact of their mother's love until they become a parent themselves or their mother is no longer living. Then, the power of a lifetime of love their mother provided sets in.

To love and accept our children, even when they are driving us nuts and their behavior is horrid is most challenging. But the mix of unconditional love and loving limits are the most important duties and obligations a mother can have. Hugs and kisses are a necessity. Love can be expressed in many other ways too, including the discipline and responsibility we give to our children. Eye contact and a simple touch on the shoulder or a love pat on the back mean so much and cost so little. Try today to think of ways you can show your children how much you love and value them.

Here are a few demonstrations of love I have found my children are fond of. You can adapt these suggestions according to the ages of your child.

Outward expressions of affection for your spouse such as holding

hands and warm hugs are good examples of love and security you can give to your children.

Tuck little thoughtful love notes in their lunches, written on a napkin or

notepaper or under their pillow.

Saying a simple, "I love you!" A smiley face or you're the greatest!

Ask them to read to you - whatever they want - for 10 minutes.

Spend time listening - this is sometimes hard with an active lifestyle,

but more important than ever. Even 5 minutes can do wonders for a child's self image. Remember good eye contact is one of the keys. Pull yourself away from the computer or desk and sit with them face to face. Mirror their body language, moving forward as they do, or sitting on the floor with them.

For younger children even up to 10 years old, holding them on your lap for a minute or two might seem silly, but most kids miss the times when they were younger and were just held and comforted.

With my teenage son, I ask him to sit next to me as we curl up and watch a movie together on the couch. At 6'2," he rolls his eyes, but he likes it. Now, on occasion, he does it from habit, but not in front of friends. Big kids need hugs too.

Share in their hobby or interest. For example, skateboarding may not be your adventure at 42, but ask them about how skateboards are made. Look at what they can do - kids love to show off to their parents, so watch. Listen for, "Watch this mom!" Put down what you're doing and really watch and praise them for their effort. Encourage them to keep trying. Smile and verbally respond.

Surprise them by buying their favorite magazine without being asked to. Just put it in their room with a little note - Thought of you today! Love, Mom

Take time to lie on blankets on the grass at night and look to the sky for shooting stars together. This is one we do as a family each summer and always have fun, looking up and just sharing, telling stories - listening to the crickets and being together. We fall asleep under the stars until it gets so cold that we all run indoors, dragging blankets behind us. These are no more than simple memory makers.

On occasion we have a "backwards day", where we eat dessert first and then the main course; kids love it when their parents are silly at times.

My ten-year-old daughter loves it when I unexpectedly put fresh flowers in a vase on her nightstand, a surprise when she goes to bed.

Let them make their own family photo scrapbook - try color copying some of photos in your photo albums - this way you are not losing valuable photos if they cut them up. Old cards and gift-wrap can make nice backgrounds and borders.

The best way to let them know you care is to hear it from you. In our family, every day we say, "Did I tell you today that I love you? Well I do and I love you more than all the leaves on the trees or all the minutes you are on the computer." That will prompt them to respond with how they love me more than all the sand pebbles or the raindrops that fell this month. Even the big kids need to hear this. They might act as if they are annoyed, but it is sinking in.

Whichever way you choose to share your feelings remember to do something each day. Experts agree that if a child receives their nurturing inside of the family, they are less inclined to look outside to others that might have other motives. Create a home where love is shown. Any parents, whether rich or poor, can afford this.

These simple and free actions can have a significant influence on our children's daily lives that will last for a lifetime. The cycle of love between you as a mother and your child will be passed on to their children all over again. Stop and enjoy them now. Before you know it, they will be grown and this time will be lost

Love Last Forever

Elements of the fairytale experience can, and should, be a real part of a lasting, loving relationship. There's no reason that "forever afters" can't exist, and in fact, they should exist with the partner you call your spouse. True love is a decision of the will. It's a choice based on many factors, including that "in love" feeling you have for your spouse. Such a feeling can be built upon with tenderness, romantic gestures, and caring choices all along the way.
Can love last forever? Yes, indeed it can. Real love is made up of more than just that wonderful feeling that makes your heart go pitter-patter when you first meet. We might call that stage of love infatuation. True love doesn't begin until two people really get to know each other and from there build a stronger connection, loving rapport, and a lasting commitment. Such a relationship takes work, understanding, compromises, flexibility, forgiveness, good communication and much more. Chemistry is a part of it as well, but even beyond chemistry and the physical attraction, a love that will last forever is based on a strong decision to stay together.
Staying together is a lifetime commitment, but just staying together is not good enough. For true love to last forever, it requires two people to remain open, honest, and to change and grow not just individually, but also as a couple. As changes take place, a successful couple manages to flow with the changes, and love each other through them all. So, can love last forever? Truly, there's no reason for love to ever end!

Be Okay with Every Little You Have - Truth about Life & Thoughts



Time alone forces your mind to work and the things your mind chooses to mull and work on are the things that sometimes can scare you the most. My personal experience has been that the last 10 months have left me a lot of time to examine my life and where I'm at right now. I can view it in terms of what society tells me I should be feeling and happy with, and my own realistic view as it pertains to my everyday existence which tells me something entirely different.

My personal view of who I am has always been optimistic. I've viewed myself as someone loyal, reliable when it counts, but idealistic in the best sense possible. The life situation known as divorce has forced me to ponder something that I've always seen the results as an outsider, but never fully accepted as a part of myself; that is being selfish. The selfishness I've had to come to accept is not the kind I associate with material things or money. The selfishness I've concerned myself with, is the idea of happiness and how it pertains to my life.

Marriage is one of those subjects that has hit in all previous parts of my dissertation on great human beings because it was something that I thought would define my being as a success. This was the one area of life where I thought if I put work into, put effort into, I would never be alone again. I spent most of my time growing up feeling like an outsider, a loser, and awkward. I thought that if I found someone to love me for me, and I could swindle them into spending "forever" with me, that would be happiness. Married folks always tell you that it's hard work, and while you associate hard work with aspects of your life like your job, yard work, and working out, the work involved in a marriage is something completely different. The aforementioned aspects of work entail physical pain and labor. Marriage requires sacrifice & compromise and when you really analyze these things that are needed for a relationship; you don't factor in how much of you think you are that you will lose to this new entity known as the married couple. If your marriage is healthy and honest, it's a two way street where solutions come about by working together. In most situations, it turns out to be one standing and one falling and resentment builds up and infects all the aspects of what you originally got together for.

Tranquility to me insinuates a sense of calm well-being that comes about when being alone. But it was in these times that I was face to face with my flaws as a person. I wasn't perfect. The things that I perceived and valued as "good," also carried with them the realization that these same good qualities also made me weak. I've had to accept that I'm not a great leader, but a devoted follower with qualities that others at the top may not possess. Making excuses for yourself is something that comes with having an ego, but exercising honesty with yourself is something that pain comes with. There are things that present themselves that you cannot change or require a lot of work to make better.

After these thoughts percolate in your mind, you start to question the motives of others. It's like one giant paranoid scheme where everything that you thought was concrete or a pillar of your life has holes. You start to tear things down to see. It's at this time, I chose to rebuild. While my goal is to be honest, especially with myself, the element that is a fixed variable in this equation known as life is time. Like Pink Floyd sang about, the "ticking away of the moments that make up a dull day" is what makes up most of our lives. Was it a huge human flaw that I didn't want my limited time here to be defined by a marriage where I always compromised? When I first had the initial success idea that finding someone to marry would make me happy, the question of "what if things change and they create suffering" never came into play. To keep my family together, I tried to convince (LIE) myself, that this was the vow I took. For better or worse. But time was the nagging element that made me reconsider what my vows meant. Marriage is a partnership above all. What is a partnership where there is no respect? It's just one person taking advantage of the other. Did I want my time in life to be defined by that?

I'm trying to be okay with the fact that life/time is something that is okay to be selfish about. If I take my life and time back, I can use it for something and someone better who will appreciate the other "good" qualities I have and not take advantage of what I consider my heart. Most of all, I'm accepting the fact that the best investment I can make with my time is in me. To be alone with these thoughts and flaws so that I can create a solution isn't something to fear. It's part of who we were meant to be and discover.

True Joy M. Jolynn Rawson-Hunt


 How to live in the present

I'll be happy once I've done this certain thing.
We all say this often not realizing what it brings.
We look only to the future for our happiness.
Letting life slip through our fingers in its fullness.
Will we really feel complete when the task is done,
or look back and see how we missed so much fun?
Self consumed so we can't see anything else,
hurting those we love as well as ourselves.
So many things around us to be grateful for,
when seeking for an answer willingly open the door.
So often, others see what's in front of our face,
but we're too blind to look as we're snared in the race.
What is this life supposed to be about?
Is it money, fortune, fame, or a big house?
When speaking to a man on his dying bed,
none of these answers are what he said.
Family, love, laughter are what we should seek.
These are the precious things right outside your door.


We all say this often not realizing what it brings.
We look only to the future for our happiness.
Letting life slip through our fingers in its fullness.
Will we really feel complete when the task is done,
or look back and see how we missed so much fun?
Self consumed so we can't see anything else,
hurting those we love as well as ourselves.
So many things around us to be grateful for,
when seeking for an answer willingly open the door.
So often, others see what's in front of our face,
but we're too blind to look as we're snared in the race.
What is this life supposed to be about?
Is it money, fortune, fame, or a big house?
When speaking to a man on his dying bed,
none of these answers are what he said.
Family, love, laughter are what we should seek.
These are the precious things right outside your door.

Source: True Joy, Life Lesson Poem http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/true-joy#ixzz2DS14DyN3
www.FamilyFriendPoems.com
I'll be happy once I've done this certain thing.
We all say this often not realizing what it brings.
We look only to the future for our happiness.
Letting life slip through our fingers in its fullness.
Will we really feel complete when the task is done,
or look back and see how we missed so much fun?
Self consumed so we can't see anything else,
hurting those we love as well as ourselves.
So many things around us to be grateful for,
when seeking for an answer willingly open the door.
So often, others see what's in front of our face,
but we're too blind to look as we're snared in the race.
What is this life supposed to be about?
Is it money, fortune, fame, or a big house?
When speaking to a man on his dying bed,
none of these answers are what he said.
Family, love, laughter are what we should seek.
These are the precious things right outside your door.

Source: True Joy, Life Lesson Poem http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/true-joy#ixzz2DS14DyN3
www.FamilyFriendPoems.com

Five Strategies for Managing Worry and Obsessive Thinking

1. Thought Stopping

  • When the worrying thought or image comes, shout “STOP” to yourself.
  • Then, picture a big, red, stop sign. 
2.  Attention Grabbing Tasks:
Tasks must be active and engaging, not passive.  Examples include:
  • Artwork
  • Crossword Puzzles
  • Playing a musical instrument or singing
  • Build models (e.g. model trains, airplanes)
3.  The “Worry Box”
  • Set aside specified time to worry.
  • Limit worry and obsession only to those times.
4.  Write it down!
5.  Schedule Compulsions and Worry-Related Behaviors
  • Don’t wait until anxiety builds; plan specific time for compulsive behaviors.
  • Steadily increase the period of time between worry-related behaviors.

Loneliness.....Author Unknown

Loneliness---------------
 
Is being out of touch with yourself
Denying your innermost need by pretending it doesn't exist
Defying what you desperately want to accept
Exchanging tenderness for bitterness
Causing unnecessary alienation all for the sake of pride

The Invitation by Oriahe Mountain Dreamer


It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.  I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.  I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring the moon.  I want to know if you have touched the center of your sorrow, have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed for fear of further pain.
 
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.  I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
 
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty everyday, and if you can source your life from it's presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon...YES!
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.  I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done for the children.
 
It doesn't interest me who you are or how you came to be here.  I want to know if you can stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me what or where or with whom you have studied.  I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in empty moments.

The Journey

    One day you finally knew
    what you had to do, and began,
    though the voices around you
    kept shouting their bad advice --
    though the whole house
    began to tremble
    and you felt the old tug
    at your ankles.
    "Mend my life!" each voice cried.
    But you didn't stop.
    You knew what you had to do,
    though the wind pried
    with its stiff fingers
    at the very foundations
    though their melancholy was terrible.
    It was already late
    enough, and a wild night,
    and the road full of fallen
    branches and stones.
    But little by little,
    as you left their voices behind,
    the stars began to burn
    through the sheets of clouds,
    and there was a new voice,
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own,
    that kept you company
    as you strode deeper and deeper
    into the world,
    determined to do
    the only thing you could do --
    determined to save
    the only life you could save.
 

Shine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate;
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?”
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine – as children do.
We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just some of us: it is all of us.
As we let our own light shine, we give others permission
to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others from their fear.
May we all give ourselves permission to shine today
so that the truth is reflected in all of us.
- Marianne Williamson
 

Listen

When I ask you to listen to me,
And you start giving me advice,
You have not done what I asked.
When I ask that you listen to me,
And you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way,
You are trampling on my feelings.
 
When I ask you to listen to me,
And you feel you have to do something to solve my problems,
You have failed me, strange as that may seem.
 
Listen.
All that I ask is that you listen,
Not talk or do - just hear me.
When you do something for me
That I need to do for myself,
You contribute to my fear and feelings of inadequacy.
 
But when you accept as a simple fact
That I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational,
Then I can quit trying to convince you
And go about the business
Of understanding what's behind my feelings.
 
So, please listen and just hear me
And, if you want to talk,
Wait a minute for your turn - and I'll listen to you.

The Rules of Being Human

You will receive a body.  You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for as long as you live.  How you take care of it or fail to take care of it can make an enormous difference in the quality of your life.
You will learn lessons.  You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called Life.  Each day, you will be presented with opportunities to learn what you need to know.  The lessons presented are often completely different from those you think you need.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation.  You can learn as much from failure as you can from success. Maybe more.
A lesson is repeated until it is learned.  A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.  When you have learned it (as evidenced by a change in your attitude and ultimately your behavior) then you can go on to the next lesson.
Learning lessons does not end.  There is no stage of life that does not contain some lessons.  As long as you live there will be something more to learn.
“There” is no better than “here”.  When your “there” has become a “here” you will simply discover another “there” that will again look better than your “here.” Don’t be fooled by believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.
Others are merely mirrors of you.  You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.  When tempted to criticize others, ask yourself why you feel so strongly.
What you make of your life is up to you.  You have all the tools and resources you need.  What you create with those tools and resources is up to you.  Remember that through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort you can have anything you want. Persistence is the key to success.
The answers lie inside of you.  The solutions to all of life’s problems lie within your grasp.  All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust yourself.

Life Lessons

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.  All you can do is be someone who can be loved.  The rest is up to them.
 
I've learned that no matter how much I care some people just don't care back.
 
I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
 
I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
 
I've learned that it's not what you have in your life, but whom you have in your life that counts.
I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
 
I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I've learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
 
I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
 
I've learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
 
I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
 
I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
 
I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.  Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
 
I've learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.   And, just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
 
I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt, and you will hurt in the process.
 
I've learned that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish.  Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
 
I've learned that heroes are people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
 
I’ve learned that you can keep going long after you can’t.
 

The Mistic Ocean - John Kim

It's a beautiful the mistic ocean.
I‘m intoxicating because a unknown mystery.
The Ocean feel as my inside world and
the surf break as drops of water.

The soul was very lonely so came to see a the Ocean's kept a dreamed and
It wanted to be similar to the Ocean.

The wide the Ocean is the native place of everything life very long time ago.
At the Ocean my mind is easy fall in love if exist person that well suit to me.

I felt the cold weather of life so I came to the Ocean.
Here I seek for that The dream of my soul.
Sometimes the Ocean was melancholy and furious.
It shows to we indirectly that the various forms of the life

I want eagerly that
always as friend I'll do with Ocean and
permanently I'll live to keep the dream of Ocean.

The Woman I Call Sister by Marissa Gertmenian


The woman I call sister
Is someone who is there
The woman I call sister
Is someone who always cares.

The woman I call sister
Can make me smile when times are blue
The woman I call sister
Is someone very true.

The woman I call sister
By choice, is my best of friend
The woman I call sister
Will be there till the end

The woman I call sister
Is the blessing from God above
The woman I call sister
Is the sister that I'll always love.

The world by Diana Yazovskaya

The world needs the people, to sow and to reap
The world needs the surface, the world needs the deep
The world needs protection, and caring, and love
The world needs the olive branch, the world needs the dove
The world needs itself to carry its chores,
The world needs the fields and the world needs the moors
The world needs the sunlight-its rays are alive
And under its rule it will wallow and thrive
The world needs its joy, and the world needs its grief
The world needs the tree, and the world needs its leaf

The world is a mirror, the world is a fawn
The world is an oyster, the world is the dawn
The world’s never ending, and end never will,
And ten decades on, it will be stronger still