Tuesday, May 26, 2009

boredness and loneliness


Dang! Killer boredness strikes again, yeah, if i feel bored, i feel lonely. I learned from a book that we have to express, not suppress our loneliness, but its freaking hard because i don't have anybody to express my loneliness with. But what did i learned just now because of boredness?? The first thing to do, if we are lonely, is not to deny it. If we feel lonely, acknowledge and accept it. We need to express our lonelines, and remember, it is not wrong to cry (definitely for us boys, i mean men. "Boys don't cry, men does.."). Well thats what i do. LOL. I feel crazy. Coz' sometimes, for every privilege we enjoy, we have to give up another, thats what loneliness do. Confusing ey? We need to remember, life is a continuous trade-off, i mean life requires that we give up something in order to gain something else. I learned (from a book) that when in certain situations, we realize that what we have given up is too costly for us to lose, then common sense dictates that if it still possible, we should reclaim what we have traded off. We should not allow our loneliness to overwhelm, paralyze or incapacitate us, instead, give ourselves fully to the task at hand. To conclude this up, we learn to cope by not denying our loneliness. Express it. Refuse to allow loneliness to paralyze us. So screw loneliness so it will screw boredness.

Friday, May 22, 2009

hurt = knowledge


I felt terribly hurt before, but what did i learned from it? First, we all get hurt, its part of being human, that having hurt feelings is a defense mechanism to protect us from an emotionally distressing situation. To avoid feeling terribly hurt, here are some things that i have learned. We must lower our expectations, because a good deal of our hurts has to do with our expectations. We expect to be reciprocated with good for the good that we do. Next is be at peace to everyone. We hurt others either by what we do or by what we fail to do and by what we say or what we fail to say. If we hurt somebody, we need a genuine apology, to clearly identify the wrong done and accept direct responsibility for what had happened. Refuse to be enslaved by tyranny of the oversensitivity is the next thing. If we try to please everybody all the time we will become slaves to the tyranny of those who are impossible to please. Somehow we have to draw the line between giving necessary attention to those we have hurt and in contrast, trying to massage the sensitive egos of the oversensitivity. Next is take the initiative for reconciliation and deal with hurt feelings promptly. When we allow a hurt to fester, we soon turn it into anger. When we allow anger to fester, we turn it into resentment. Resentment then becomes BITTERNESS and BITTERNESS turns into hate - hate of the one who hurt you. We should remember, hurt feelings are inevitable. Thankfully, they need not be debilitating. Hurt feelings could be overcome.

I want to thank the following persons for helping me overcome HURT:

Zari Bilon
Kelly Guanco
Ainz Tan
Heart Sanares
Mr. William Girao
My Family
and the CREATOR