A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

What do you think were the four words?

The husband just said “I Love You Darling”

The husband’s totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away, this will not have happened. No

point in attaching blame. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. We miss out some warmth in human relationship in giving each other support. After all, shouldn’t forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don’t multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding on to forgiveness.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

In life, we are faced with losing our first loves and our best friends. We have to face the of losing our loved-ones to death. We live with our regrets of the mistakes we make in life.
How can you love and trust again when you have been hurt over and over again at a young age. How do you get past all this pain. This is reality.
Death, departure, walk away, walk out Should I or should I not pout.
Family and friends Lovers and one-night stands
I have loved, lost and lived How do I trust, how do I love again
I should move on, it's all in my past But my pain remains, continues and lasts
This pain lingers in my heart, mind and soul Damn it - why is this world so cold
How can I have faith in God and family When people I love are taken from me
Where can I find true and loyal friends I'm sick of the lies, fights and revenge
Hurt continuously, hurt at a young age How do I love again with all of my rage
How do I get past all of this, show me a sign So I can leave my sadness, pain and crying behind.

I was merely pointing out that sometimes, we tend to dwell upon options which are easy to choose from, well sort of. Often times, I do this, maybe this is why I'm so confused right now. I'm stuck in the moment. Isn't it weird sometimes? How life is already complex to begin with and we tend to make it even more harder for ourselves by not choosing immediately. Sure, choosing isn't that easy, I know. But why is it that sometimes, even the more logical option is quite obvious, we learn more to the option which isn't that logical but rather, more of beneficial to us? Call it selfishness. Whatever. Sometimes, we even make loop holes for it. I know I do it. It's like, we throw in more PROS to one of the options and we leave all the cons out for the other one. It's as if I'm giving myself a harder time choosing. Ha! :) Choices makes a big difference in our lives. RIGHT and LOGICAL choices make an even bigger difference. What if you made the wrong decision, but it still made sense to you? That's the point of it all I guess. You're not supposed to  make all the right choices all the time. But most of the time, you just have to choose. CHOOSE. Jeez... Why is it so hard to do this? I mean, I can't just run away from it all. hmm.. :) Maybe. Perhaps. You simply have to learn from ALL the wrong choices you've made. So that next time, you'll learn to use your brain more. Jeez. The only trouble is, it's hard to execute everything. Oh Great. Hmm.

It was my day off and got nothing to do, so what I did was to open my email and was apprehensive with the mail I've received from jobstreet.com, a site where you can be able to receive updates about job hiring from different companies or agencies that meets both your standards and qualifications as well as with the companies or agencies that are hiring. And here I am, got an approval of my application, and I am now working as a Freelance Writer (company confidential), specifically an Email-based Writer which is my sideline job aside from working as a Registered Nurse. About my job, the company will be giving me assignments every day which they will be the one to give the topic that I'll be writing, same with the weekly memes which I am joining at blogger.com. But what's good in here is that I'll be receiving compensations from every assignments done and the salary I'll be receiving is worth for me to have my own savings and also for me to help my younger siblings. And as of now I am looking forward to receive a lot of writing jobs for more income..*wink* Thank God for all my blessings..

" ....the mess to clean after a party
because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

....the taxes I pay
because it means that I'm employed.

....the clothes that fit a little too snug
because it means I have enough to eat.

....my shadow who watches me work
because it means I am out in the sunshine.

....a lawn that needs mowing,
windows that need cleaning
and gutters that need fixing
because it means I have a home.

....the spot I find at the far end of the parking lot
because it means I am capable of walking.

....all the complaining I hear about our government
because it means we have freedom of speech.

....my huge heating bill
because it means I am warm.

...the lady behind me in church who sings off key
because it means that I can hear.

....the piles of laundry and ironing
because it means my loved ones are nearby.

....weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day
because it means I have been productive.

....the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours
because it means that I'm alive.

....the friends and family I can share this message with
to remind us all what is important in life."

* Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.* Memorize your favorite poem.* Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.* When you say, “I love you”, mean it.* When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.* Be engaged at least six months before you get married.* Believe in love at first sight.* Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.* Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.* In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.* Don’t judge people by their relatives.* Talk slowly but think quickly.* When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”* Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.* Call your mom.* Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.* When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.* Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.* Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.* When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.* Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.* Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.* Spend some time alone.* Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.* Read more books and watch less TV.* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.* Trust in God but lock your car.* A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.* In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.* Read between the lines.* Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.* Be gentle with the earth.* Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.* Never interrupt when you are being flattered.* Mind your own business.* Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.* At least once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.* If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.* Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.* Learn the rules then break some.* Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.* Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.* Remember that your character is your destiny.* Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon..
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1) And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln


2) Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~Albert Einstein


3) Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ~John Lennon


4) Life is just a chance to grow a soul. ~Powell Davies


5) Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker


6) Each person must live their life as a model for others. ~Rosa Parks


7) The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions. ~André Gide
8) I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey


9) Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin


10) Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key. ~Alan Bennett


11) For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus


12) Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller


13) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein


14) Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. ~ Steven Coallier


15) Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov


16) Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset


17) The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie


18) Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Gandhiji


19) Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye


20) Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. ~Wally ‘Famous’ Amos


21)Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. ~William Goldman


22) Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


23)A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella


24) Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach


25) Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Cherralea Morgen


26) We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown


27) The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps


28) In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. ~Charlie Brown


29) The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen


30) Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown


30) Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye


31) As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown


32) I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz


33) Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller


34) He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


35) Where there is love there is life. ~Indira Gandhi


36) Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown


37)My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


38) I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


39) You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp


40) God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown


41) Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses


42) We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luthor King, Jr.


43) To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire


44) The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle


45) Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


46) All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis


47)Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison


48) Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood


49) What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? ~ George Eliot


50) The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~Marcus Aurelius


51) Live dangerously and you live right. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


52) Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. ~Henri Frederick Amiel


53) Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.” ~Maya Angelou


54) However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau


55) To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis


56) My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic


57) People do not live nowadays – they get about ten percent out of life. ~Isadora Duncan


58) Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
~James F. Bymes


59) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre


60) If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~A. A. Milne


61) Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant


62) Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown


63) If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.~ Isaac Asimov


64) The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~Clarence S. Darrow


65) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau


66) I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey


67) Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov


68) Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie


69) In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin


70) The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo


71) Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.” ~From the movie Mansfield Park


72) To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler


73) Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris


74) When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain


75) The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne


76) What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Dalai Lama


77) Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ~George Sand


78) A useless life is an early death. ~Goethe


79) Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ~George Santayana


80) Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~Dorothy Thompson


81) Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson


82) Life is a quest and love a quarrel ~Edna St. Vincent Millay:


83) There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin


84) Without discipline, there’s no life at all. ~Katharine Hepburn:


85) Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer


86) Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin


87)Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, “Stand”


88) If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton


89) There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset


90) Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus


91) For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ~William Blake


92) Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson


93) The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau


94) To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson


95) I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot


96) Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.~ Eliot Wiggington


97) The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne


98) The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. ~Pearl S. Buck:


99) We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


100) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ~Samuel Butler


101) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ~Jean-Paul Sartre