.. Pipe Dream

I must admit, i'm sober when this urge to write unexpectedly came.  As i begin to tidy up the throw pillows on our sofa, i suddenly thought of what tomorrow could bring... for all of us.  I know Hope and Faith are the beliefs that's sustaining most of us now.  And this is when i realized to draw an analogy with the exodus of Moses -- wilderness wandering, skeptical of what awaits on the other side, and yet, the people still followed and moved on, holding on to aspiration and deliverance.

Currently, everyone seems to worry about work, economy and the future.  Of course, I cannot blame anyone on that.  We have been used to the cycle.  We are focused on distressing about tomorrow that, admittedly, we forgot today, each day, the Present.  We forgot that we have to live by the minute --where we offer everything to God for He will take care of us.  We should not be anxious.  Trust is the key.  How? I honestly don't know too but probably God is saying that the world habituated itself on power and money that our world just revolved around it.  Come to think of it, life used to be so simple but man made it complicated. 

Makes me wonder why was money invented? Why is there a need for power? too many why's where you won't even know where to start.  Shouldn't it be that we all need to be equal? Perhaps God is making a way for people to reach out to the needy.  A test on how we, as human beings, will cope up on these trying times to save humanity.  Would empowered people risk of losing most of what they have just to make sure that mankind will survive and remain?  This may cost them their fortune but could eventually balance life and let us function the way we used to be.  Maybe this is the message. Unite. Connect. Share. Live and Love.

Well, this is the current parody of life.

For now, let's all wait until this juncture ends, for this too shall pass.  Let us all look at the brighter side and take all of this as a blessing in disguise.  Come on, this is a vacation we are longing to have with our family.  There are so much things to do.  Talk, play, sing, eat, dance, drink, chat, etc.. endless ways to go on with this.  What's important is that we are with our family.. cherish each day and worry not of tomorrow.  Life is short.  Let's all live it.

Matthew 6:25-27 (NIV) Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Matthew 6:34 is “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

METAPHOR

I'm pretty sure most of us experienced heartache in one way or another. Do you remember the pain? When you are asking when is it gonna end or when will all your feelings be numb? I always say that it's okay to feel that way.. it's natural.. but one day you will wake up and you will be wondering why all those griefs were gone. Snap. Just like that. 

This holds true with what we are experiencing right now.. One day, it will all be done -- just like that.

In the meantime, Pray. Believe. Miracles happen. 

Have a good day everyone! CHEERS...

The Sad Truth About Career Break (whether by choice or not)

Career breaks are sometimes predetermined, by choice or due to some unavoidable circumstances, and some of the reasons could be as follows:

1. There is great certainty in the saying that good leadership is the key to employee satisfaction and that a good boss is better than a bad company. Once that feeling is lost, your determination and eagerness to work also diminishes, thus leading you to leave whatever you may lose.
2. There could also be a time that you feel the need to be with your children for a while so as to properly guide them during the most crucial times of their lives.
3. Unexpected sickness or sudden loss of someone where your presence is needed for undetermined amount of time.
4. And probably just some time for yourself to leave all the stress behind.

Whatever reason there is, it means you, taking a break from the work station for some time with the hope of one day coming back as soon as you are ready and able.

Cynically, the plan seems to be great and the reasons justifiable. But the truth is when you already feel the need to come back, most employers or agencies for that matter does not seem to welcome your achievements and experience anymore, no matter how good it is.

Life seems to be really unfair. There just seems to be no justification on how employers assess your qualification during your absence. Doesn't it follow that you are still YOU even when you were not in the workstation? What you have learned and experience does not just diminish on one's gap. Once a driver, is always a driver even he doesn't drive a vehicle for quite some time. Your instinct and skills are still there to remember everything.

These facts also goes congruently when you are applying first time on a job. You have no idea on what awaits you, just the eagerness to learn and be able to fulfill what's there in front of you and eventually, you get the hang of it.

So, what am I trying to point here out? Yes, I'm one of the unfortunate people who decided on a career break and is now being discriminated and treated inferior for being unemployed for quite some time. As long as employers perceive this as such, the longer the unemployment extends. Sad sad truth.

I have lots to offer and I always believe that my intellectual capacity and skills are in tact and perhaps even more enhanced during the time that the aforementioned reasons transpired. Absence does not mean you lose your qualifications. I do MS office works to assist and teach the kids with their school needs. I love to research in a topic I am interested in and I would surely try to learn more if I get the chance to do it. After all, google is a great tool to learn.

But then again, these facts doesn't seem to be clearly assessed by employers. What they perceive is that when you're out, others could be better, even if your CV clearly states so.

Now, for people who are planning or unintentionally needs to be on a career break, think twice, thrice or a million times. Even the people who promised you something may not be there to pick you up when you needed them the most.


Cheers to a cloudy return.

..SOUL MATE, one-on-one with DESTINY

I have been trying relentlessly to write an article since time immemorial but focus and lack of time always gets me. However, due to the insistence and great confidence entrusted upon me by a dear friend who has long since requested me to enlighten her on a topic, here i am, trying to pick my wits up.

So what has my friend been pushing me all along? I should say this is a real knack for a scrutinizing discussion and a perfect thrill-seeking analogue -- the asymmetry between soulmate and destiny.

First things first, let's try to define each one separately before coming to a conclusion.

SOUL MATES 

Soul mates have been known and defined as souls that were separated and were designed to look forever for his other half, the other half of his soul. Based from what i gathered, there are speculations founded on some divine mystical insights that God created hermaphrodite souls — in other words, equally male and female. Subsequently, these souls were detached into separate genders as a form of punishment over their deeds. So for every reincarnation, they were condemned to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them. And only upon ablution of their incurred indiscretion shall these souls merge back together and return to the ultimate.

Taking these things into consideration, i reckon that soul mates look for each other with the goal and idea to: first, make everything work out fine and second, to stitch things back together.  This pair may unknowingly recognize each other upon initial encounter.. but as time goes by, and these individuals learn to grasp with each others' strength and weaknesses, they begin to feel the need to be with each other for whatever reason there is where aback and underneath lies their mission to accomplish things.

Well, i guess this conforms to my previous quote that --

.. soul mates doesn't necessarily mean that these souls have to be perfectly in accordion with each other in perpetuity.. rather, the impeccable half is meant to be there to guide the other half's dissipation in eternity..

DESTINY

Destiny or fate has been defined as the predetermined course of events -- a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.  Therefore this, i should say, has already been written even before our existence.  Goes well with the saying,  everything and anything in this world exists and happens for a reason.

We could assert that we are always left with the choices and decision.  Yes, nonetheless, if we try to deliberate on the concept, we can end up recognizing  that these decisions were presets.  All were authored. Even as simple as the time you wake up in the morning, the rude person you encountered in the street, the screaming boss, anything and everything for that matter.  We are all programs waiting to happen. I don't think that we can ever reverse what is due.  This is NEMESIS.

..i always believe that everything happens for a purpose…

…for a reason

..though it may be for a good cause

..or otherwise..

..everything was destined to be..

For us to take note of it..

..maybe no matter how many times the world reboots..

..whoever personality we become..

..we’ll always end up the same

..entirety is how it was meant to be..

CONCLUSION

So, is soul mate and destiny the same? 

Errrr...  

I am into the impression that there are cases that some people may have already uncovered their soul mates. The thing is they chose not to resolve their dues in the specified lifetime, thus the destiny to separate and fulfill wherever their fate led them. Probably both souls may still be unsatisfied on what previous lives came about and will still challenge the life ahead without each other and thereby compensate the undoings owed with their kismet. And until the time that the other half decided to stick, no matter what it entails to get full deliberation of his mate, then and only then that these souls will be reunited and be as one.

I have to emphasize that this is inevitable and was decided by fate according to our incurred karma. That is, the moment the souls were separated, all were written down.

Judging from my personal elaboration, i can safely conclude that Soul mate and destiny are not the same. Soul mates decided on how destiny would be, the first time that they have been sentenced to separate. They could cross paths somewhere in time but may not yet be destined to be together. Our destiny today were based on what we and our soul mates did.  This destiny is the reflection on who we were and what we should be. Therefore destiny is congruent to soul mate. There shall be a point in time that our half will be our destiny and then and only then will soul mate and destiny be synonymous with each other. So, if you are with someone where you've been together, struggling life's up and down, here and there.. and still end up sticking with each other.. then maybe, you & your soul mate has finally met destiny.. who knows? only our consciousness can decide..  

..well, let's admit.. life and its corresponding mystery is so complicated.. it's an elaborate puzzle..  the only thing we need is learn how to deal with it. 

Cheers!! 

AD Thoroughfares

THOROUGHFARES

Living in Abu Dhabi for over a year proved to be worth the exodus we had from the comfort zone we maintained on our native land. Of course, this excludes the longing for friends and loved ones we left there. Despite the extreme hot weather condition, anyone can get by with the discomfort because of the air conditioned places everywhere, 24/7.

Aside from that, there’s this feeling of security anywhere you go. You can walk through the skirts of Abu Dhabi without any worries that someone may grab you or any of your belongings. Safe and Sound could very well describe the atmosphere. This is why you often find people preferring having long walks in reaching their destination.

Our family love to go places even when there’s really no purpose in doing so. We love doing things all together. Recently, my husband decided that he start biking so as to get fit. Biking, brisk walking and anything you can think of to relax means Corniche. And to adhere to the head of the family’s purpose, the rest of us joined him in his endeavor-- by walking.

As I have already mentioned, taking long walks in Abu Dhabi is but natural. The lone dilemma we are having is the sidewalks’ accessibility to people with toddlers or babies in strollers/buggy/baby carriage.

What’s so amazing here is that, there are pavements that have ramps in going up. But upon reaching the end of the pavement, voila! There’s no way how you can get off your baby carriage with ease! Whatever happened to the engineering designs here? Who were in charged of the public works and highways that they let those road designs pass their quality? Everything would have been so perfect hadn’t the sidewalks were designed that way. Good thing here is that there are no disabled people going on their own in their wheel chairs. Otherwise, they would really be having a lot of trouble getting through their destination. Imagine the underpass, having these access ramps, but before you could reach those ramps, you will be having this big bamboozle on how you can get your wheel chair up the underpass’ stone curb..whew!

I guess I’m just trying to think my mind out loud hoping that some concerned authorities could do something about this enigma.

So for the meantime, we just have to settle on the great obstacle course in reaching Corniche as our toddlers endure the wiggle-waggle on the thoroughfares of Abu Dhabi. Cheers!

..fibber

‎..unending pretensions and lies can slay even the staunchest ardor..

..there seems no justification on people who never feels any fretfulness to individuals who haven't done them any vexation, and yet still manage to sham into their own rationale..
-19Sept10-

..tired heart

‎..when wits are drained ..soul&spirit dazed.. focus on your self-reliance and from there regain your essence..
-28july2010-

..visualization

..only you have the power to decide on how to make your day.. not the circumstances, nor the people around you.. unleash any single negative thoughts..

..let go of the preceding, worry not on the impending..
..what matters is how you choose to generate the moment..

true enough.. smile, and the whole world shall smile back on you..

..sounds easy eh? nah.. but it's worth the try.. ;p
-17July2010-

..angst

..how can one achieve peace when there's so much resentment in the heart?
..yet how can one resist this rage when there are too many insinuations?

qualms: ..probably it's best to exist in a non-existent world or completely vanish into this existence..

..'err..

reservations: .. try to detach on others' parody.. instead continue to dwell on the unprejudiced and leave all anticipations.. maybe then, the rest shall follow..
-13july2010-

..hurting

..an uncouth person who doesn't even care nor notice how anyone feels, can still injure one's feelings..

..what's daunting and ironic to realize is that the hurting one senses that there may come a time that these anguish will turn, and soon fade away...

..either way, the offended becomes affected and turns out to be the underdog..

Life's fair?!? nah..

.. there's just a need to retain unabated people..
-02July2010-

..Destiny
..in our ventures, we choose our own path to cross, our own roads to take..
what's essential is to be firm on each steps we seize..
never ever give doubt nor regret on any decisions made, for as long as we know where we're heading, we'll definitely reach our target journey..
-25June2010-

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

..to my HUSBAND, my EX-BOYFRIEND, my BEST FRIEND, my MALLOW, my ALL, the AIR I BREATHE, and the BEST FATHER our four wonderful kids can ever have... HAPPY HAPPY DADDY's DAY.. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH..

..no verse can ever vent on the kismet that bound us together...

-20june2010-


STRAPPED

..when one is pushed to the edge of the cliff..it's just a matter of choosing to hang on and cope with the distress&affliction or let go and face dissolution.. Either way, both would entail hope but pain would be unbearable..

.. In the end, no matter what you have chosen, you won for yourself..
-12June2010-

..battered heart

..don't exhaust a potent heart for it could later get anesthetized.. it's your fortress.. pay no heed to what it could forgo..
02june2010

...❀ ✿ ❀ ✿ ❀

FRIENDS

..in one's lifetime, people will come and go.. but there will be those who will always leave a mark in your heart.. to be treasured and cherished forever..
31May2010

..though how pathetic your life may prove to be, friends and families will always be there to steer and cheer you up along the way...
27May2010


..holding on

..when everything's like breaking up to pieces.. bring back the memories.. hold on to it.. then relive it..
26May2010


..unyieldingness

..vivacity is hard to maintain.. one just have to opt for whatever is there to transpire..
anticipate the vilest and beseech for the heavens..
26May2010