8th April 2012
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Rachel Platten
Lucy Schwartz
The Frames
Priscilla Ahn
Natalie Walker
Lindsay McCaul
William Fitzsimmons
Schuyler Fisk
Lenka
8th April 2012
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How does it feel like when you’re the only person who knows something and you are not able to share it?
There are different kinds of feeling. Tons even!
Scared. Because you don’t know what could happen if people eventually learn about your secret. You fear eventual discrimination resulting from jumping into conclusion and failure to ask the questions that would help them understand better the situation you’re in. Further, there is the feeling that you might lose every good thing you have at the moment.
Doubt. Knowing that the secret you’re keeping could break the trust others have in you, you begin to doubt yourself. There is the hesitation of letting others share or open secrets to you. You’re not sure whether you’re capable of being trusted.
Overwhelmed. Once someone gets a hint or clue of what you’re keeping, you’re very much willing to open up. There is a longing for someone to listen to your woes and provide you with moral support. You’re overwhelmed to share every bit of beans and get all your feelings out of your chest.
Inferior. Since people are not aware of your situation or secret, you feel that they do not care about you. You feel unloved, unwanted and see that they care more about other things or people other than you. Irritation arises when people who doesn’t know of your secret show compassion towards another who is in the same situation as you are.
Self-Blame. You begin blaming yourself to have been caught in the situation you’re in. Sometimes you’re tempted to get to the end so that you’re worries would eventually end so as your pain.
At these times, you’re partner and most trusted friends are the only ones you feel you can rely on.
This is the very situation I’m caught up in. I want to become free, by letting everything out. Allowing the people important to me know about it. I cannot simply do this as I might hurt them more.
I am praying for strength that eventually everything will fall into place and unfold.
30th March 2012
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how long does it take before reality finally break into your list of priorities?
forever?
i wish not, because i’m counting a few weeks before everything is done.
29th January 2012
Photo reblogged from itsmeABBY . ♥ with 10 notes
abbyxx:
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you too, and she would love to spend some time with you.”
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie.
“What’s wrong, are you well?” she asked. My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.
“I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,” I responded. “Just the two of us.”
She thought about it for a moment, and then said…
“I would like that very much.”
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up, I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel’s.
“I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed,” she said, as she got into the car. “They can’t wait to hear about our meeting.”
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Half way through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips.
“It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,” she said.
“Then it’s time that you relax and let me return the favor,” I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation - nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie.
As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed.
“How was your dinner date?” asked my wife when I got home.
“Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined,” I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her. Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place mother and I had dined. An attached note said: “I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates - one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”
At that moment I understood the importance of saying, in time, “I LOVE YOU.”
And to give our loved ones the time they deserve. Because nothing is more important in life than family… and they shouldn’t be put off until “some other time.”
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Please share this with every daughter and son you know.
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we rarely seize the opportunities to spend time for the ones who did so much to let us live and walk this earth.
once in a while, get a reality check and find out what has happened to your relationship with your parents not only to your mother or father.
we are too busy growing up and attending to what we think are important things that we fail to notice, that our parents too are growing old, asking more of our attention than we ever thought they deserved.
:)
Source: abbyxx
25th January 2012
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GOAL OF THE CAMPAIGN are as follows:
The Philippine public schools lack 66,800 classrooms. While the government’s budget for the building of classrooms has increased in 2011 and is being increased again in 2012, the resources are still not enough to fully address the problem. The private sector, through the 57-75 Education Reform Movement, is responding to government’s call for support through a campaign called “Bayanihang Pampaaralan“. BP aims to solicit corporate donations, seek grants from donor agencies, and tap individual donors to raise the resources required to build 10,000 classrooms in two years.
Through TEN Moves!, Bayanihang Pampaaralan appeals to the Filipinos’ sense of citizenship and hopes to give everyone a concrete opportunity to respond to the education crisis and take part in nation-building. We hope this is reason enough for you to join us in this campaign.
See how to help by visiting the following link: http://www.tenmoves.org/why-do-we-need-to-help/
21st January 2012
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Love captures it all.
It started out as infatuation. The feeling of wanting to do things that no longer asks for justification nor reasoning. Purely instinctive. Does not even care about the rules and penalties that could follow.
Moving into the relationship. “Yes”. Despite the uncertainty of where infatuation has led to. One then finally accepts the offer to be in the relationship. “I’m happy when with that someone”…the only thought.
Ups & Downs. Challenges as the relationship progressed. Doubts are time and again aroused by each of their unshared past. Clarified but still things had to stop. Limitation on connections. You and me nobody else.
Secrets. There were times you just feel you don’t understand what’s going on. Thanks for the existence of networking lines, untold stories are then revealed. It’s part of that someone. “I accept”, the only words that came out of these lips. One day, it’ll all go away. Soon.
Regrets. The troubles didn’t go away.
What IF’s. What if were already settled, will the past come knocking our door? What if other people knew of the past? What if eventually you just wanted to get out and change the status quo?
Unended Doubts. Keeping everything inside is way to painful. You’re the only person that knows. You can’t even speak about it to others. Crying over your own shoulders. Bracing yourself tightly without wanting to ever let go.
Hope. There’s still hope yes. When you will become strong enough to let things just go and never look back. You want to see that future with yourself and your achievements. Without someone trying to stop you from success.
Breathe. for now that’s all you can do.
21st January 2012
Photo reblogged from zimmer404 with 2,422 notes
zimmer404:
___ My tumblr friend David Michael Chandler of The Daily Doodles is posting (almost) everyday a doodle with a very cool, funny and often melancholic story (or sometimes a poem) attached to it. I love reading his stuff, so I thought I would remake one of his doodles and transfer it into my style. (With his permission of course.) I chose:
“Defragmenting the Brain”
Horrible memories next to good means the two often commingle.
You wish to remember a nice moment, but get that uneasy tingle.
Pleasant nostalgia ruined by things with wished you could erase.
Forgetting is usually impossible, but brains have a lot of open space.
Simply defragment your brain, store the dark memories to the side,
In the empty unused portions of the mind, you put them to hide.
There they can’t bug you, or infest what you wish to recall,
No more pausing on past regrets, slowing your brain to a crawl.
You’ll live happier not remembering anything that made you sad.
Filled with confidence knowing that you never did anything bad.
While over time that data may leak out, and flashes break through,
Just defragment your brain again, and you’ll never have to be you.
Source: zimmer404
2nd June 2011
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only when we give a damn will we understand.
26th March 2011
Photo reblogged from Pinoy Tumblr. with 8,339 notes
pinoytumblr:
Since its inception in 2007, Earth Hour has captured the world’s imagination by becoming a global phenomenon. Earth Hour 2010 inspired 1.3 billion people in over 4000 cities to join the 60-minute switch off. At least 15 million Filipinos in 1076 cities, towns and municipalities joined in – earning the country the top global spot in terms of participation – for a second year in a row.
On March 26, 2011, WWF is again staging Earth Hour to inspire millions of Filipinos to switch off their lights from 8:30 – 9:30PM. 2011 marks a key difference from past switch-offs, for the focus shall be on what transpires beyond the hour itself. With climate change issues becoming more critical, WWF-Philippines is going beyond Earth Hour by launching a year-long climate change information and education campaign for Filipinos to live by Earth Hour’s carbon-friendly principles not for 60-minutes – but for the rest of their lives.
Help us spread the word to again ensure that the Philippines comes out on top. Through your most crucial support, we look forward to another victorious hour!
Learn more about Earth Hour.
Source: wwf.org.ph
31st December 2010
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Happy new year to everyone! :)
