12 Relationship Truths You Should Know

1. You have to love yourself first. – In order to truly have a loving, supportive, and long-lasting relationship with someone else, you need to learn how to be your own best friend first.  It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit. 
2. You get what you put in. – People won’t remember what clothes you wore, which car you drove, and maybe not even your full name.  But they will remember how you made them feel and the positive memories you gave them.  The true impact you make on people will depend on the time and attention you give to teaching those who know less, caring for those who have less, supporting those who are striving, and tolerating those who are different than you.
3. What most people think of you doesn’t matter. – You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew just howseldom they do.  No one is ever going to care about your life and the way you choose to live it more than you will.  That is a beautiful thing – never forget how beautiful.  Follow your heart, and take your brain with you every step of the way.  Get to know your true self.  When you are truly comfortable in your own skin, not everyone will like you, but you won’t care about it one bit.
4. Friends and family won’t always support your goals, but you must pursue them anyway. – Follow your intuition.  Following your intuition means doing what feels right, even if it doesn’t look or sound right to others.  Only time will tell, but our human instincts are rarely ever wrong.  So don’t worry about what everyone else thinks; keep living and speaking your truth.  The only people that will get mad at you for doing so are those who want you to live a lie.  
5. Life doesn’t always change as fast as people do. – Learn to accept that not everyone is who you once knew.  And realize that sometimes it’s not the person you miss, it’s the feeling you had when you were with them.
6. Some people are meant to stay in your heart, but not in your life. – If you’re having a tough time letting go of someone who left you, realize that if they wanted to stay they would still be there.  Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.  It sucks when you know that you need to let go, but you can’t because you’re still hoping for the impossible to happen.  Yes, it will hurt for awhile, but you have to forget about the person who forgot about you, and move on.
7. Everyone has baggage, just like you. – The minute someone decides to walk out of your life, that is the same moment in which the opportunity and space opens up for someone who actually deserves your love to finally walk in.  Remember, everyone has baggage, so don’t be ashamed of yours.  Be patient and find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
8. Love doesn’t hurt.  Love is not the problem. – Don’t blame love if a failed relationship interfered with your other important relationships, or robbed you of your self-esteem and personal freedoms.  No, don’t blame love.  For it wasn’t love that stole from you.  It was possession.  It was obsession.  It was manipulation.  It was confusion.  Love had nothing to do with your situation.  For love doesn’t close the door against all that is good.  It opens it wide to let more goodness in.  Love creates freedom and abundance. 
9. Forgiveness is always the right choice. – Anyone can hold a grudge, but it takes a person with strong character to forgive.  When you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden.  And no, forgiveness doesn’t mean what happened was OK; and it doesn’t mean that person should still be welcome in your life.  It simply means you have made peace with the pain, and are ready to let it go and move on with your life.
10. Love requires three things: acceptance, honesty, and commitment. – Love comes when you care more about who the other person really is, rather than about who you think they should become.  It’s about daring to reveal yourself honestly, and daring to be open and vulnerable over the long-term.  It’s about sticking by each other’s side through thick and thin, and truly being there in the flesh and spirit when you’re needed most.  Remember, the most romantic love story is not Romeo and Juliet who died young together; it’s the story of grandma and grandpa who helped each other through life, and grew old together.
11. A big part of who you become is who you choose to surround yourself with. – Fate controls who walks into your life, but you decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.  Surround yourself with people who make you a better person, and let go of those who don’t.
12. A soul mate is a person who brings out the best in you. – They are far from perfect, but they are a perfect fit for you.  Remember, every relationship has its problems, but what makes it perfect is when you wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, even when times are tough.

- from MarcandAngel

The Saga Continues

It's been awhile since the day I came to know you. Six months when we were properly introduced, things were working the way it should be. Awkwardness that leads to friendship, and to me, a little deeper than that. To me you were like a guy I never had, handsome, skilled, innocent yet witty.

When we left from the camp that got us closer, I was all over you. You messages each day excites me. You were everything to me. You were the only the one who can let me do things I never did before. And for the times when we decided to met and spend each other time, I was in cloud 9.

And on this six months, I honestly have feelings for you. But I know that all you got for me is friendship. We are friends, that's us since then. But I can't help what I feel for you.

And now, I am battling with I am confusion. I am avoiding you, before I will be totally fall in the bottomless pit. It didn't help, my nerves, my veins, everything in me screams for you. I am already out of my sanity. I don't know what to do anymore...

The never ending saga of falling for a handsome guy, yet can't have it, continues to live on me... Help me, save me from this maddening situation...

The Crap I Can't Throw Away

I've tried to forget, and I've tried to go out and make new memories to eradicate the ones he left me with. It's a plague, I tell you. All that crap we've thrown around about how this is what makes us who we are... is crap. The truth is I can't stand it anymore. It has been months, still he remains a ghost in my mind, haunting me in every waking, blinking and unconscious moment. No matter how preoccupied I can be, he hangs around the back of my mind, in places I can't reach, making it impossible for me to throw him out by force. I feel the void. I read my thoughts of our time together, and I can't help but wish our time wasn't up.

.!. Good Evening:*

Still For You

How I long to hear your voice and feel

your hands upon my skin. To feel your lips

so soft and the passion that was so strong

between us. Our lovemaking that completed

us and took us to new heights we never dared

imagine.

Each day that passes seems to turn into an

eternity. The time passing by ever so slowly.

I can almost hear the second hand ticking away

on the clock. Everywhere I look I see your

face and It brings back the pain I've had

since you've been gone. Everywhere I go

reminds me of you. But, I had to send you away.

In the sky I see your reflection in the

clouds. The trees across the way swaying

as my knee's felt just from your touch. As

I watch the couple walking hand in hand

across the street.. I see us as we use

to be. As I wanted us to be.

I know your still in love with me.

Oh, why can't our love be. I can still

see it in your eyes. You call me often

and how so very hard it is to tell you no.

A ring of the phone that sets my heart to

racing knowing it's you. As I pick up the

phone I hear "Oh babe I want you to stay

please don't go" playing. Why do you

torment me so. Knowing that my love

for you is stronger than it has a right

to be. Then you play Dolly Parton's "I

will always love you". I know its you

instantly. For my heart comes to a dead

stop as the blood stops pulsing in my veins.

Tears slip slowly down my cheeks as I want

to give in and come running back to your arms.

If their wasn't another obligation you had,

in your arms is where I would be.

My love, I do miss you so very much.

Paglisan at Ulan

Dalawang oras ka nang nakatitig sa blankong papel. Hindi pala madaling simulan ang isang artikulong tungkol sa wakas.  Saan ka nga ba maaaring magsimula?

Sa simula? Naaalala mo pa ba ang simula? Hindi na. Gaano man kahiwaga, ang simula ay nalilimot, nawawalan ng saysay dahil sa napipintong katapusan. Makabubuti lamang ang pag-uungkat sa nakaraan kung may bukas na yayapos sa iyo upang pawiin ang pangamba. Dahil kung wala, ang tanging magagawa ng simula ay ipaalala ang simula ng wakas.

Simulan mo kaya sa dahilan? Hindi rin pwede. Ang pinanghahawakan mo lang ay ang sino, ano, saan at kailan.  Sadyang mailap ang bakit; may mga bagay na habang pilit iniintindi ay lalong nagiging mahirap maunawaan. O baka naman nasa harap mo na ang sagot. Ayaw mo lang itong paniwalaan kaya’t pilit mong isinasantabi ang tanong na bumabagabag sa iyo. Hindi mo masisisi ang iyong sarili. Mahirap tanggapin na ang mga katotohanang nagpasaya sa mga araw mo ay panggagago.

Kung gayon, bakit hindi mo simulan sa ulan? Sa ulang hindi mo naman hiniling at dumating sa panahong hindi mo inaasahan. Sa ulang nagpakita sa iyong maaari kang tumingala sa langit at tumayo sa gitna ng kalsada, habang nilulunod ng mga patak ng tubig ang iyong kasuotan at mga gamit.

Tama. Sa ulan. Binago ka ng ulan.

Itinuro sa iyo ng ulan na ang mga tao sa buhay mo ay darating at aalis kung kailan nila gusto. Wala kang magagawa. Hindi mo sila mapipilit na manatili. Hindi mo sila mapipigilang lumisan. Titila ang bawat ulan. Hindi nito sasabihin kung kailan, pero mararamdaman mo ang paglumanay ng hangin at ang paghawi ng mga ulap.

Ang maiiwan ay ikaw… at isang puwang.

Ang pangungulila ay hindi nag-uugat sa paglisan, kundi sa pamamaalam. Ang isang taong pinahahalagahan mo ay maaaring magpaalam nang hindi umaalis, subalit maaari rin siyang umalis nang hindi nagpapaalam. Paunti-unti. Dahan-dahan. Patuloy ang pagtakbo ng buhay sa kanya, habang sa iyo, dumarating sa bawat araw ang kapiraso ng wakas.

Minsan tuloy, naiisip mong mas maigi pang matapos na lang ang lahat sa simula. Nang sa gayon, walang pinagkatagu-tagong text message na kailangang burahin, walang mga sandaling dapat ibaon sa limot at walang puwang na palalalimin ng pangungulila.

Nakapapagod maghintay kung kailan muling mapupunan ang puwang na tanging ikaw ang nakadarama. Mas madali itong pag-ipunan ng galit at pagkamuhi.

Pero hindi mo gagawin iyon. Hahayaan mo lang na dumaloy sa iyong pisngi ang mga luha at kahuli-hulihang patak ng ulan. Alinman ang unang maubos, ikaw ay patuloy na tatayo sa gitna ng daan.

Maghihintay. Aasa.

Dahil kahit maging balewala ka na sa isang tao, mananatili siyang importante sa iyo.

- hango kay Doc Ronibats, isang napakagaling na doktor at manunulat...

I HOPE SO

Anyone who's seen us
Knows what's going on between us
It doesn't take a genius
To read between the lines
And it's not just wishful thinking
Or only me who's dreaming
I know what these are symptoms of
We could be in love...

RRA

I did it, again. I have been doing things that is opposite of who I am, and my beliefs, lately. But I willingly do. I do it because the I did it for is all worth it. Sometimes I think I am stupid, but more like lost. Yes, I think the best word is lost. I'm so lost when it comes to him. And I become unstoppable. Coz in the end, it gives me a feeling of fulfillment. I'm happy that at least for a moment, I made him happy. And it's all that matters to me.

Nababaliw na talaga ako. At hinayaan kong mabaliw ang sarili ko sa iyo. Hanggang kailan kaya ito. Hanggang kailan ako mabigyan ng pagkakataon na ako ay mahalin mo rin. Meron bang pagkakataon.

Sana.... I will be the happiest when it happens. I'm willing to wait. - AdikSaYo1818

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."

Epic

Traditionally, the word EPIC means a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

But nowadays, the internet uses the word epic to describe something that is extremely awesome. And because of that, another  phrase came out, EPIC FAIL, which is used to describe something that is complete and total failure when success should have been reasonably easy to attain. 

 Angelee Claudett delos Reyes gown presentation during the Miss Earth Philippines 2013 beauty pageant is EPIC. That is one of the factors why the judges gave her the crown. Congratulations Angelee.. Bring home the bacon.

What is Right?

Could someone just give me a perfect definition of what is right?!?! Or it is just a standard depending on the point of view of a specific person... What are the boundaries of being right or wrong???

One quick question, if you do something right (corrective action) with to a certain person or individual. Will that somebody tend to recall that thing that you have just done? Or the only thing that in his or her mind that will reflect his or her memory is the only thing that you have made WRONG! Do I make any sense??? Or am I just realistic and you are guilty of it? 

I’m just curious of a fact that when a person is mad! Everything that he/she remembers are the things that you did wrong! Or is it just a fact supporting that life is unfair! Or it’s just that we mankind doesn’t know how to accept the fact that we ourselves are also committing mistakes and we always put the blame on somebody just to save our own ASS!

a Beautiful Thing

One of the most beautiful things in life is to lay in bed, completely naked with the one you love. There is nothing more raw,or loving than sharing not only sheets together, but skin. The warmth and softness of their tummy, the way your bodies mesh and tangle together, as you're breathing and heartbeats become one, like a beautiful concerto piece. Not only are your bodies together, but your souls and selves do as well. You don’t see where you begin and they end, but that’s the beauty of it.

the Learning Point...

later in life, you'll learn the subtle difference between holding

a hand and chaining a soul, you'll learn that love doesn't mean

learning and company doesn't mean security, you begin to learn 

that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, you learn

to build all your roads today cause tomorrow's ground is too uncertain

for plans, after awhile, you'll learn that even sunshine burns if you get

too much. so plant your own garden and decorate your own soul

instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers, you'll learn

that you can endure, that your strong and you have worth..

With the right person, you don’t have to work so hard to be happy. It just happens, effortlessly.

I miss you...

Every Moment

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You’ll have your heart broken and you’ll break others’ hearts. You’ll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you’ll cry because time is flying by.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you’ve never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off,speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone’s hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. 

Don’t be afraid to take chances or fall in love, and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.

Oh June

Definitely June is the busiest month, at least to me, as a high school teacher in our town... It is the opening of the school year, and even if the classes starts last monday, the schedules are not yet set. And I am trying to make a change on my system this year, coz I want to explore new  things in my life. But it seems that I have trouble getting out from the old one. Life is too short to be stuck with the same process...

I am hoping that I will get I want... They say "Hindi lahat ng gusto mo, makukuha mo." But I am praying that I can really get this one..

June fever is here again... And I'm in for a bigger thing for this year... Wish I can get it. #FingersCrossed