"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." -Jim Rohn
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ARCADIA.With the Capitol Chronicle staffers (who I consider
as my second family) last May 24-25, 2012 at Villa Arcadia,
Talisayan, Misamis Oriental.
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It is always amazing to see how things change. Indeed, nothing in life stays the same forever. Although change happens slowly for some people, but it doesn't work that way for me. My life has been a roller coaster ride- with all the loops, the thrills and the ups and downs. It is but a rhetorical analogy to present my life's changes in a fun-ride metaphor, because at the very least- it's not Fun all the time. However, It is just my nature to see things in my own perspective- seeing the optimistic side, the blindside for most people.
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Dumbfounded. Together with college friends in a photo-opportunity
in Lim Ketkai Center after the Mass Oath Taking ceremony
last September 19, 2012
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| Pondering. Huemer at Amara Club House, Cebu. |
Things happen just as unpredictable as they had been throughout the centuries. Who would expect that an oppressed Austrian boy would later become the Chancellor of Germany, leader of the Nazi and head the historical Holocaust? Nobody would even expect a beat-up boy to be a music icon and would bring the "Thriller" to the world. Or a rape victim to be dubbed as "the Greatest Black Philanthropist of the 20th centruy" and the "Only black billonaire". I know it would sound so ambitious on my part to use Adolf Hitler, Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey as an allegory of how whimsical my life is. Nevertheless, I guess what I'm trying to say here is- nobody can predict where and how far you can go if you just keep on going regardless of the circumstances.
Although at this point in my life, I may not be able to say that I've reach my dreams yet (as I'm not even close to discovering what my dreams are), but I can definitely shout to the world that I made it! I changed something and discovered how vast the ocean is by letting go of the shore. Indeed, how you shape your mind dictates how you shape you life. If only you are open to changes and liberate your mind from all the uncertainties of tomorrow, things will just fall into place like a Jigsaw puzzle showing your destiny. I would sound hypocrite if I declare that I never doubted myself and my capabilities, because honestly, I did! A lot of times! I would also appear self-righteous if I deny those circumstances when I doubted my faith and the so called "powers-that-be". But never mind all the ambiguity and agnosticism, the bottom-line is I am here now (and no one knows where I'll be tomorrow). And if ever a momentous "moment-of -impact" happens to me, I'd be glad to embrace it knowing that every moment that unfolds accompanies an opportunity to change- a change for the better.
Living my life one day at a time may sound like a platitude for some. Even so, it made me realize that all quotations and sundry statements born by obscure intellectuals have at least once been validated by whosoever deserves to be accounted for. Right now , I become one of the living testimonies that life indeed changes if you allow it to be. It is just a matter of embracing the possibilities and a proper conditioning of the mind....
Although at this point in my life, I may not be able to say that I've reach my dreams yet (as I'm not even close to discovering what my dreams are), but I can definitely shout to the world that I made it! I changed something and discovered how vast the ocean is by letting go of the shore. Indeed, how you shape your mind dictates how you shape you life. If only you are open to changes and liberate your mind from all the uncertainties of tomorrow, things will just fall into place like a Jigsaw puzzle showing your destiny. I would sound hypocrite if I declare that I never doubted myself and my capabilities, because honestly, I did! A lot of times! I would also appear self-righteous if I deny those circumstances when I doubted my faith and the so called "powers-that-be". But never mind all the ambiguity and agnosticism, the bottom-line is I am here now (and no one knows where I'll be tomorrow). And if ever a momentous "moment-of -impact" happens to me, I'd be glad to embrace it knowing that every moment that unfolds accompanies an opportunity to change- a change for the better.
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Black and Yellow. With Jeremarie Delos Santos, wearing our wave
jacket in Convergys. Photo taken by Mr. Olacao after shift in
front of Starbucks, IT park, Cebu City.
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Living my life one day at a time may sound like a platitude for some. Even so, it made me realize that all quotations and sundry statements born by obscure intellectuals have at least once been validated by whosoever deserves to be accounted for. Right now , I become one of the living testimonies that life indeed changes if you allow it to be. It is just a matter of embracing the possibilities and a proper conditioning of the mind....
