reminders.
street lights shine so brightly but they still scare me. i can smell second-hand smoke and i feel like i am suffocating. there are so many people that i can see but they seem life-less. these are not real people.
how can i find out who i really am if i am surrounded with things and people that are… lifeless? how will i do it if everyone that surrounds me are also confuse about themselves?
i think the best answer is, i guess, helping each other, take a lot of patience and courage and pray. pray, it works! (do you have any better answer/s than i have?)
pride will just make me distant from people who cares for me so much. pride will also just make me become a hypocrite. vengeance won’t help me heal any pain that i have or that i will be encountering. it will just make things harder. it works the other way around.
for me, it is easy to forgive someone but it takes time for me to forget everything that had happen. but time after time, everything will go back to normal or it can be so much better than before.
revenge will just make every feeling that i have worse. do i need to explain further? no, right?
everything around us may be too confusing. but we can go out and go somewhere to remind you of who you really are.
when a system in your place isn’t right for you and makes you not to reveal of who you really are… why do you have to stay on that place? or why do you have to let that system continue? be with the people who will remind you your one true self. be in the place where everything fits and won’t make you lose your real personality. don’t go on a place that will just make you confuse and make you destroy yourself.
people who are in love with the material world are just hungry for love. they are just looking for substitutes.
i have read a book that says people who are swimming in material things are just hungry for love. maybe something or someone in their lives is missing that’s why they found material things as their substitutes. (tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom)
what are these for?
well these are just reminders for myself…
gyk (JAYK) is currently residing at angeles city, pampanga here in the philippines, she's also taking up BS Nursing at AUF. she's 18 y/o and doesn't care with her grammar. she is proud to say that she's in a relationship with a wonderful guy. she loves sweets (but who doesn't?) and coffee. internet and watching dvds makes her boredom get out of her way. she is addicted to tv series like gossip girl, OTH and house, m.d. music soothes her. she barely send sms/text messages. she just only text her bf. ;). she loves critics, it's either she'll take it positively or laugh about it. she lives her life the way she wants it to be. for her, nothing beats spending time with her loved ones and lastly, she sees to it that god is always on the top of her list. 
Mitch Albom is one of my favorite authors.
I love him!
And yes, maybe it is true. Maybe some people find that “love” in material things. But in the long run, panandalian lang din ang happiness na binibigay nun.
January 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
we are everyone we meet.
btw
im hungry for love
nyahaha
lovesmitchalbom<3
January 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Interesting… I don’t think everyone is necessarily “hungry for love”. A lot of people are most happy when they’re left alone. People just want happiness, and sometimes it’s material things that bring them joy.
January 5th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
hi link ex?
January 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am
It’s sort of weird but I haven’t read Tuesdays with Morrie yet. I have finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven, though.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:07 am
happy new year!
haven’t gone here for a long time… hehe
btw… every1’s hungry for love… life is about love…
iba2 nga lng preference =) gud thing m not so materialstc. kunten2 na sa imagination mga gadgets q…
January 6th, 2008 at 6:20 am
i think, the best book that you read is…. Bible.. - the best love letter of God! You can find happiness and full of reminders…
material things can be a substitute for a hungry heart for love..
but Jesus is enough. He gives the BEST LOVE that people
are searching for.
Search God.
not in google,
but in Bible…
Godbless!
January 6th, 2008 at 6:40 am
wow! thanks for sharing this.
this helped a lot for me.
this made me think about sumthng..
and yea i hate it when some people are together with another person but what they only love is what they give them..
wihh, i want that book, sounds interesting.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:07 am
@dee: welcome. at least i helped..
the book’s amazing. it also has a movie…
January 6th, 2008 at 10:33 am
maybe i am partially hungry for love…
but that was before.. konti na lang ngayon hehe
hindi naman siguro mawawala yun XP
but never did i swam in to happiness for having such material things,
(can’t afford eh lol)
but i do buy some things as substitute for my hunger for love..
but I’m happy to be a changed person now (at least kahit paano)
really wala namang nagbago sa paligid ko eh,
i still see lifeless people and second hand smokes around me,
but from a far distance now..
i still haven’t finished the book, hayy naku kailan kaya..lmao XP
January 6th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
@kath: i was hungry for love too dati. i was a super impulsive buyer. i even buy things that i don’t really need. thankfully and fortunately, i became somehow contented because i am now already filled with love from the people around me..
iba iba lang kasi ang outcomes of being hungry for love. maybe others isolate themselves from others. some are seeking to much attention to the point of .. o.a. na.. basta ganun…for me ah. yun. hahaha
January 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
i rememeber someone told me once ” u are unique, just like everyone else” were generally the same and specifically different anyways happy new year hope u had fun!
January 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
tuesdays with morrie is my other bible.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hmm, very interesting post. I’ve never read that book but maybe I’ll pick it up next time. I think that people tend to be that way towards material things because like you said they’re missing something or someone. I don’t think they have the full appreciation of non-material items or they’ve never experience the feeling of things that make you happy besides material things. If that makes any sense.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Tuesdays with Morrie has changed my life. I don’t know how, pero it really did.
I guess, I have to agree na people who’s inlove with material things are hungry for real love. Siguro, dun sa material things nila binubuhos ang love na hindi nila maibigay sa iba or matanggap.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
oh and repertory philippines is showing tuesdays with morrie on stage.
im going to watch one of these weekends. hehe. you should check it out.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I’m still trying to find that place in who I want to be. Well, I know who I want to be. Just getting there is hard because there’s no one to watch and say, that’s what I do in this situation or this is what I dont do. It’s all trial and error =(. good post.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
people who are in love with the material world are just hungry for love. they are just looking for substitutes.
- Yeah~ haha.. im also hungry for love. mwah!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
These are what makes the world go ound.. What else can we do?? LoL
Love It!!
January 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
don’t think too much about love. like life, it’s naturally spontaneous. just let things happen. then you will know what to do next.
btw you really know do good books. and authors too.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:16 am
These are all great reminders. I especially love the first one. I can’t stand being around people who are “lifeless”, as in they have nothing going for them in their life, nor do they care to.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:28 am
This is exactly how I am. Exactly talaga.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi! thanks for the drop!!
January 8th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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January 11th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Hello…Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..holy Monday
January 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm