More than just a birthday.

Thanks for every single birthday wish. Thanks to for every single thing. Thank God that his mercy and grace is on me that I may celebrate my 17th birthday. Thanks to my family and friends for existing. =) Well, birthdays aren't important. What's important is that we know that we have an impact in our friends and family. We know that our birthday is not to have presents and gifts and wishes just to gain popularity or fame or acknowledgement from friends to boast. Birthdays is just a day, on the our personal calender so that we remember the BLESSINGS and LOVE that God has given to us - our friends and family. Blessed birthday to myself =). Thanks again. For every wish or even thoughts in your mind that you wanted to wish me. 

If you were to ask me what's my wish. Nothing in particular. Mostly the wish that I want that is priceless. I could not be wished for but only could be earned. 

Well, practically. My wishes and desire are already here. Right now. Being alive and breathing is the greatest gift of all. Without life, we could not enjoy and appreciate or even feel the things around us. We lose perception. Awareness. 

Everyone has birthdays. Everyone wants great present and wishes to come reality. In our heads, sometimes it's more about receiving than giving. Normally, if you are observant, those who are"LIKABLE" and "popular" will get the biggest birthday surprise with all their friends to celebrate for him/her. What about those who are less popular? What about those who are less fortunate, less appealing in appearance, less blessed without many friends and family? They don't get great birthdays. They're discriminated. Left out. 

I really encourage everyone of us to look around us. A simple effort on talking to a person(especially those who are lonely, less sociable, basically those who are discriminated and lefted-out by social groups) counts. A simple "hello" counts. Obviously with a sincere and kind heart of saying it. Don't just say "HI" without meaning it. Don't just ask: "how are you?" without concerning and be passionate to know what is happen in another person's life. 

We often live in our comfort zone. What is so hard to greet those who are left-out? Is it because they are fat? Ugly? Less sociable? Weird? Come on, they're humans too. How would you feel if everyone around you passes you by without acknowledging you? 

We always want to be liked by everyone. We try to please everyone by saying things that compliment, praise, sweet-flowerish words that everyone likes to hear. But when it comes to correcting, encouraging, and rebuking others, nobody wants to do it. Nobody wants to correct their friends because everyone is just afraid to offend. Afraid to lose their "Fame" and "Popularity". We discuss it behind our friends back, judging them, reactifying the problem, criticising them. When the question of, :"So, who's going to tell him/her about this problem?" Nobody wants to. We dare to talk about it behind him/her, confirming the problem, talking about it, but nobody just want to get their hands dirty. Are we afraid, ashamed, fearful? Or are we just being SOOOOO SELFISH because we CARE more for ourself than for others. We judge others so that we can correct others, to make others improve. Especially those we call best friends and family.

So please, my ONLY WISH is that we could be humble, loving, and kind enough to greet and talk to those we have not talk to in our class, during tuition, etc. Correct those we love. We judge them not because we want to criticise them/put them to shame. It's out of love and kindness we tell them. Hopefully, they will understand and change.

Please don't put on a mask and say:"I'm too afraid to correct others, especially my best friends, because I'm afraid/ashame."

Best friends and family members suppose to be honest to one another. Don't put on a "selfish-egoistic" mask. 

Thanks for reading. 

God Bless.

If you never failed, you never lived.

Sometimes we need to fail in order to know,


Sometimes we need to be hurt in order to grow,


Sometimes we need to lose in order to gain


Cause some life lessons are best learned through pain


watch this following video. It just takes a minute to watch, and an hour for you to be amazed. 

Influences.

Our lives are like a burning flame. The words we say, the things we do. Little do we know it holds so much potential that it can directly or indirectly make an impact in others lives.

Within our circle of friends and family, in this wicked world today, it is either YOU being a influence to others or you others will influence you. Well, there's 2 types of influence. The positive and negative influence.

We should build strong walls around our heart. Don't just follow our heart, because our heart could be deceived. But we need to lead our heart. Be a good influence to others and stay firm on your ground with all the bad influence out there that could make a huge impact in your life.

Beware of the friends we mix, little do we know that they do much more negative impact in our life than we do to them. Just like parasites. They just harm you without you realizing.

Bitter/Sweet?

Ever wonder why we have 2 ears but only 1 mouth? It's because we need to listen twice as much as we speak. There's always a price for the words that comes out from our mouth. For the same tongue we confess our love to our love ones, compliment/praise others, and we use to same tongue to gossip, curse, lie, slander, etc. We do feel awkward talking to others if we are aware of our disgusting bad breath. So do we slander and then continue talking to others? A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. The most dangerous and poisonous tongue is those who gossips and slanders. Ever went into a discussion with your peers talking about another individual. From commenting the slightest appearance to their personality, to their weakness,and then to those pathetic negative opinion towards him/her. Try to think of it. Your peer whom you discuss with, don't you think he/she won't talk comment on you behind your back? Treat others the way you want to others to treat you.

Think before you speak. Listen twice as much as we speak.

Keep running.

In life, we have the good times and the bad times. We thank God for the good ones and for the bad ones. Embracing the good ones, learning from the bad ones.

Well, I personally think that I learn and more after I fall/failed. We often hear people saying : "When life throws you lemon, you make lemonade". It's not easy making "lemonade" when your you have a rotten lemon right?

That's why we all persevere. Each time we fall down. Don't just get up. Get back up faster after falling down.  Rejoice in our sufferings, don't dwell, complain or feel bad about it. What done is done. Suffering produce perseverance; perseverance builds our character ; and character gives us hope.

Consider it pure joy, whenever we face trials of many kinds, because we know that the testing of faith develops perseverance.

Try picturing, if our life have no problems. No commitments. No responsibility. Everything is going smoothly and perfectly the way we wanted it to be. Comfortably. How can we build our character?  How do we learn?  Would we become too comfortable and not want to change at all?

Keep running. Don't be afraid of falling.

Parallax error

Most of us judge a stranger, friend, or other individual by what we see physically or base on our on thoughts. Ever been carried away commenting others choices, differences, appearance, attitude, etc. with our friends/peers? Well, i do. Who doesn't?

Definition of Judge : evaluate, measure, form a critical opinion.

Judging isn't all wrong. We must remember that our ability to judge is limited and especially that we are sinful people who will ourselves, one day, come under judgment.

Ever heard of what goes around comes around? For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Everyone isn't perfect, we do judge once in a while without true intention. 

My point is, judge our self first before judging others. At least try to,  Humble our self, swallow our pride. Swap places, give a chance to understand his/her decision or perspective.