“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyse us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?” - Don DeLillo

Self reminders

• Stop wasting energy on individuals whose behaviour towards you is ambivalent. The people you surround yourself with should provide you with a consistent feeling of safety, warmth, kindness and love.
• You are not obligated to help everyone, all of the time. This is especially true when you yourself are going through a difficult time. Taking care of your mental and emotional needs first does not make you a bad person, nor should you feel guilt about it.
• Some days are filled with an abundance of everything positive, some days are not. Learn to find happiness in the little things on the days that aren’t.
• Other people’s silence in no way reflect your own worth.
• You are allowed to take breaks from society without explaining yourself. You are allowed to take the time to recharge your soul.
• Life in itself is simple; it is your mind and ego that make it complicated. Let go of your expectations and the way you think things “should” be. Accept every situation for what it is.
• Anyone and anything worth having never, ever comes by force.
• Think hard before you speak; and when you believe you’ve reached some degree of certainty that you wish to turn your silent thoughts into words; shut up and think again. Is it kind; is it necessary?
• Extend love and compassion to every soul you encounter. 
• You are allowed to change; your tendencies, interests, opinions, and perspectives are not static or engraved in stone. To deny the possibility of growth is to deny human agency.
• Never resist what you feel. Allow your emotions to visit you without judgment or identification with them. You are not your mind.
• Others’ words can undeniably be comforting, but they may also be empty. Place more significance on actions.
• Stop beating yourself up over the person you used to be. Take responsibility for your bad choices, your ignorance, your toxicity and the way they might have impacted the lives of others as well as your own - but don’t dwell. Use them as a learning experience, as a standard to hold you and your future self above.
• No matter how busy you may be, find the time to appreciate nature. Meditate amongst the trees, the water and the sand. Look up at the stars and breathe.
• Care. Tell people how you feel about them. Never inhibit the quantity or quality of your love out of fear.

deadly.

What is more deadly?

A gun or a thought?

...............

A gun gives you the opportunity but a thought pulls the trigger...

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Quote of da day! :)

"WORRY is worthless. It can't change the past. It can't control the future. It only wastes this moment." - Rick Warren

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. 

“You shouldn’t be walking alone at this time of night”

No.
Actually.
People shouldn't effing attack other people at any time of day.

For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence. 

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us." - Charles Bukowski 

“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you. Too far, and they abandon you.” - Hanif Kureishi  

“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change.” - Michael Jackson (Man in the Mirror)

People were created to be loved,
Things were created to be used.
The reason why the world is in CHAOS,
is because things are being loved, 
and people are being used.

Life is not as good as people imagine; life is not as bad as people imagine, either.

BE STRONG now because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it can't rain forever. 

"Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration, respect, moral support, and help."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk about the thing/s they love and the way they fill with light.”

The world is really small.... when you turn around, you do not know who you’ll meet.
Yet the world is really big..... when you turn around, you do not know who you’ll lose.

Some people were supposed to walk into your life, teach you a lesson, and then walk away.

Yesterday = Experience

Today = Experiment

Tomorrow = Expectations

Use your Experience in your Experiment to achieve your Expectations.

LAST DAY OF MARCH ALREADY?! DAFUQ.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!

April is coming way faster than I thought!!!!!!! :P

Anyways, so what's today?

Well, today's my braaaaaah's bday however I could not celebrate it with him like I did with every year, but I already gave him his presents.... so all GOOD! haha XD why can't attend? cos I'm gonna attend an easter camp! :D Have to be there soon to register and all :P

So catchaaa all later! :D

Shall summarised the camp soon like tomorrow night haha XD since this camp's only 2 days 1 night.... so short.... and I'm thinking.... it shall be packed too with activities! :P and there's a theme too for da camp... it's le "the good in every heart"...... hmmm......

Cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! :) Have an awesome last day of March of 2013! ^.^