From The book Purpose Driven Life by Rick warren (Nagustohan ko lang)

By Rick Warren, the Purpose Driven Life

Don't date because you are desperate.

Don't marry because you are miserable.

Don't have kids because you think your genes are superior.

Don't philander because you think you are irresistible.

Don't associate with people you can't trust.

Don't cheat. Don't lie.. Don't pretend.

Don't dictate because you are smarter.

Don't demand because you are stronger.

Don't sleep around because you think you are old enough & know better.

Don't hurt your kids because loving them is harder.

Don't sell yourself, your family, or your ideals.

Don't stagnate!

Don't regress.

Don't live in the past. Time can't bring anything or anyone back.

Don't put your life on hold for possibly Mr.. Right.

Don't throw your life away on absolutely Mr. Wrong because your biological clock is ticking.

Learn a new skill.

Find a new friend.

Start a new career.

Sometimes, there is no race to be won, only a price to be paid for some of

life's more hasty decisions.

To terminate your loneliness, reach out to the homeless.

To feed your nurturing instincts, care for the needy.

To fulfill your parenting fantasies, get a puppy.

Don't bring another life into this world for all the wrong reasons.

To make yourself happy, pursue your passions & be the best of what you can be.

Simplify your life. Take away the clutter.

Get rid of destructive elements: abusive friends, nasty habits, and dangerous liaisons.

Don't abandon your responsibilities but don't overdose on duty.

Don't live life recklessly without thought and feeling for your family.

Be true to yourself.

Don't commit when you are not ready.

Don't keep others waiting needlessly.

Go on that trip.Don't postpone it.

Say those words. Don't let the moment pass.

Do what you have to, even at society's scorn.

Write poetry.

Love Deeply.

Walk barefoot.

Dance with wild abandon.

Cry at the movies.

Take care of yourself. Don't wait for someone to take care of you.

You light up your life.

You drive yourself to your destination.

No one completes you - except YOU.

It isn't true that life does not get easier with age.. It only gets more challenging.

Don't be afraid. Don't lose your capacity to love.

Pursue your passions.

Live your dreams.

Don't lose faith in God.

Don't grow old. Just grow YOU!

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.

Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give to someone is your time.

Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is T-I-M-E because the essence of love is not what we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give of ourselves...

MISTERIA

Nagsimula ang lahat noong panahon na iniwan ko nalang sa likod ko ang bagay na pinagpilitan nilang piliin ko, so wala naman talagang masyadong konek ito d2 sa ikwe2nto ko, so, so much about that. Meron nga talagang mga bagay-bagay dito sa mundong ito na hindi pwede. Hindi lahat ng gusto natin ay nangyayari, at minsan pa nga ay ung mga ayaw natin ang mga sunud-sunud na dumadating. Di ko alam. Bat sakin pa nangyari to. Akala ko nga nung una wala lang, di ko nga napansin na unti-unti akong nahuhulog sa isang tila patibong. Di ko alam. Isang araw ng malingat ako. Un na, nakakainis. Hindi talaga pwede ang ganito. HINDING HINDE!! Pero bakit ito nangyayari. Di maalis sa isip ko ang bagay na iyon. Gusto kong umiwas pero sa tuwing gagawin ko na ang unang hakbang palayo, para bang ang aking mga paa'y hinihila pabalik ng tila magnet na mahika. Nakakabadtrip talaga. Aukong nangyayari ito! Pero gusto ko. Masaya ako, ewan ko, ang gulu-gulo na ng buhay ko. Ni hindi ko na nga alam panu tapusin ito, kasi andme kong ilalahad na kwento. Di ko lang talaga alam kung paano uumpisahan sa dinamidami ng umpisang pwede kong gamitin. Basta ang masasabi ko hindi ito tama, pero masaya ako. Tuwing nakikita ko at nadadama ang bagay na iyon..lahat ng di pwede sa mundong ito ay nakakalimutan ko, mga plano ko, mga pangarap, mga problema, para bang ang oras ay humihinto. Parang walanghangganan...mali ito, paulit-ulit kong sasabihin at sasambitin, pero di ko mawari ang nararamdaman ko, parang lahat maayos, masaya, makulay...parang panaginip..pero kahit ganun, ang panaginip ay panaginip parin, MALAYONG MAGKATOTOO..ito ay ilusyon, na patuloy kong paniniwalaan...sapagkat dito sa ilusyon na ito nakita ko ang tunay na reyalidad ng buhay..ang SUNDIN at gawin ang mga bagay na tanging nakakapagpasaya at nakakapagkumpleto ng buhay mo. Sa panaginip na ito ay narating ko ang aking pangarap, maging masaya...pero sa totoo lang dq parin alam, di talaga pwede eh, xenxa na kung di nkakatuwa ang ending nito, kasi nga naman ang mga artikel na may matinung ending karamihan ay kathang isip lang, ito totoo..kaya wag kang magtaka kung puro dq alam ang sinasabe ko, kasi ang gulo talaga....Gusto ko, pero di pwede..masaya ako, pero dapat iwasan, tama pero mali...sa madaling salita...DI KO ALAM!!!

Female: Unstable being

What do women really want? They always seem to have a complex pattern of behavior. They change mood every now and then. Want this and that on the first minute and changes her taste after a heartbeat. When you give them what they want they never are contented, well males are sometimes like this, but for her, she's on a superior level. They seem to be like the ocean always making random waves splashing on the rocks of the sea shore.

Parents (our social upbringing), our schools, and especially the media- through movies, music videos (an example is a crappy song of Christina Aguilera, "what a girl wants"), commercials, soap operas and sitcoms- have all told us how to treat a woman and "what a girl wants". But has it ever occurred to you that women never fall for "nice guys" who try to give them what they want? Furthermore, has it ever dawned on you that WOMEN DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT anyway? Do you get the irony in all this? I hope so. However, "getting it" just doesn't cut it, in order to give a girl what she wants and needs, you need to understand it, and you need to live it.

So how do you understand and live it? Simple, you should care for them. And caring for them is not caring AT ALL. The best way to understand their wants is not asking that question at all. WHO CARES WHAT THEY WANT AND HOW THEY WANT IT? Why should I? Why should you? By not minding them you allow them to be free and exercise the God-given freewill, to do whatever pleases them and how ever they want it. Since women change what they want as often as a baby's diapers are changed, you can't really care about what they want, you will simply go crazy trying to give a girl what she wants. The feeble male mind is not equipped to handle such drastic fluctuations in desires. You'll need to give her not what she wants but what she needs, and that is a steadfast rock.

Woman in reality have no definite path in their deciding powers. They are indeed an small replica of the SEA. They often change direction like the tides and waves, which are continuously splashing against the rock on the sea shore. Although they can give you the most peaceful and calmest experience, they are also the ones whom you can experience the fiercest storms of the sea, that can wreck and sink every man's ship that crosses their path. If women are sea, what should men be to satisfy them?

If woman is the sea, man are (or ought to be) their natural counterpart, land. A man should be the shoreline and the rocks. Steadily upholding to his established virtues, rules and principles and sticking with it, plus without doing anything. By doing so, the ocean is free on being wild and unstable on continuously attacking the steadfast rock, but still going back to its limitations, thus staying bound by the strength of man(If the rock is strong enough it can endure the random personality of the sea).

The ecosystem itself balance its self out. So the best way of caring for the environment is you should leave it as it is, and you will live with it. I mean there's nothing woman needs from you to be stable, time will balance them out.

"You cannot do anything, but to stop what you are doing." - Niccolo Q. Garcia

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The Gossiper

Republished by: Niccolo Q. Garcia

Author: Unknown

A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew about the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later, the woman resposible for spreading the rumor learned that it was COMPLETLY UNTRUE. She was very sorry and went to a sage(A wise old man) to find out what she could do to repair the damage.

"Go to the market place." he said, "and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road." Although surprized by this peculiar advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand. "You see", said the old sage, "it's easy to drop them, but it's impossible to get them back. So it is with gossip, and hurting the feelings of a neighbor. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor and make someone hurt, but once you do, you can never undo the wrong.

*Credits to the Author

Human Nature

There is no doubt that Humans are the best and highest form of masterpiece ever made in the history of time itself. They are too logical that they are going deep into revealing uncharted secrets of this universe. They are indeed a unique beings, a being of almost perfect characteristics.  But I definitely hate HUMAN NATURE, it is too complicated to understand. Their foundations of their personality can't sometimes be explained using the LOGIC and reasons that they themselves created. 

One concrete example that I can give that I hate about human way of thinking is that NOBODY, yes, no one wants to accept the fact that in every aspect of life one will always be "good" and the other just came to be "better", and they call it LOSING. No body wants to admit mistakes, they always think that at some point they are being cheated. They define cheating as "something against", they don't mean cheating as unfair. Anything that is againts them is what they assume to be unfair, but whenever unfairness is on their side and they benefit from it, they don't mind being not fair. They don't seem to understand the word "accept" or "learning from mistake"; these are a few of the words they had created, but they aren't following the meaning that they have assigned to these words. 

They say being human is to be logical. Now those HUMANS that are reading this, here's a logic for you: If humans are logical, and humans do things for unacceptable reasons(w/c is in effect being illogical), then are humans really HUMAN? I my self is a HUMAN being which is probably the worst embarassing fact that I must accept. 

I'll leave this without conclusion, for you to reflect and understand. Do you hear what our Creator is trying to tell us? If you could just LISTEN.

POSITIVE SIDE

I am a person of complexity. I myself barely know my own existence. As I dig deeper, more mysteries about the person within me is unearthed. I can't disclose my self for reasons of uncetainty. I don't understand, maybe I lack belief. I tried to introduce to the world the man inside my being. I tried to be as real as me, no one accepted. Not even the most you can expect to be on my side. I did the right thing, atleast 10,000 of them. But once I did a simple error, I am really sorry for it, but I guess the 10,000 right things are just hidden by a simple mistake? I don't really understand what's the hidden rule to follow. This always make me remember of a painting. A beautiful painting hung on a wall, the thing is, whenever a person pass by he will say:"WOW", "What an awesome painting" or any complement of the like. Now a single drop of coffee is dropped on the white part of the painting, a person saw the painting, what will that person say about the painting? Do you think it will first complement about the painting? Absolutely NO! That person will never see the masterpiece beyond that drop of coffee because of the almost invisible tiny drop of coffee embedded on it. This made me believe that human nature always searches for error for some unknown rationales or something irrational I guess. For these facts that I have noticed I came to a conclusion that the priority of the human eye is the negative element of the world, in its absence that one can only see the positive side.

THANKS FOR READING!

Global Warming

  I know all of you are already informed about this matter but most of you  tend to NOT mind…You hear it on your right ear and let go on the other..So AGAIN this is another article for you to be aware that THE GLOBE’s TEMPERATURE is UP! So don’t just READ..UNDERSTAND!

   

    Whenever people throws garbage..they tend to forget about it and never realize the permanent damage it can do…You see..anything you throw contributes to the rising of the temperature of the GLOBE..so please reduce..reuse and recycle..Here’s a fact: “It takes a can 50years to recycle itself..but it only take a second for you to recycle a can”..

   

    So much about the trash..Energy is another issue here..you should also reduce your consumption..because in producing electricity…substances that is harmful to the environment is an inevitable biproduct..unplugging chargers if it is not in use is a BIG help…I know many of you don’t unplug it after using…even flouresent light or any kind of it should not be used if it is not that dark..

   

   

    Not only garbage and energy consumption contributes to GLOBAL WARMING..there are many factors in which you already know…but many of you don’t practice..hope this blog will help you to be awaken in what will happen to US if Global Warming continues…..

    Now at this moment..you read the whole article and probably you did understand it somehow. You are now aware of the reality that we are now facing. You already know the risks. But do you know what to do?

 

“YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING..BUT TO STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING” - Niccolo Garcia

YOU

You shouldn’t imitate others just because you think you are imperfect. You are unique in your own special way…just be your self and do what you think is the best and right for you. Imitating others wouldn’t make you perfect…for everyone around you is imperfect. So if you imitate others you just imitate the imperfectness in them. Some are beautiful but brainless..brainy but boastful..some has beauty and brains yet a psycho…YOU ARE NOT BORN TO PLEASE OTHERS, you are born to be YOU.  You see being your self is the best thing that you can do to be accepted by others….

Satisfaction is Fiction

 Why do people want what they cannot get? When people get “something”…they are always after for another that is greater than the “something”. Man don’t tend to be contented to what they posses..poor people want to get away from poverty…but when they got out and be onto the “top of the food chain”(I mean get what they want i.e. Being Rich and famous) they always wanted something higher to be happy..what I say is Search for happiness is man’s PRIMARY reason for unhappiness..Stop searching for happiness and you will be happy..JUST BE CONTENTED OF WHAT LIFE HAS GIVEN YOU AND LIVE IT TO THE FULLEST!