The lone hawk in the sky,
Struggles against the wind
Here there is only light and darkness,
He has the sky to himself,
You who looked up to the sky and wept
You who live alone
Let me hear your true name
For one day you'll be gone
As light dissolves into darkness
Your song passes straight through my heart
Let me sing it for you
what is within my heart no one ever knows
a heart like a falcon's is this very heart
what it is within my heart none can ever know
lonely falcon in the empty sky
I walk alone along deserted country roads
walking with me side by side you are always there
i feel your loneliness lonely you must be
crickets whispering in the grassy fields
you walk there by my side
but you never say a word, never do you speak
Mnpl Co
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Growing up .. Anything could happen,
Sometimes it doesn't take much for you to realise how unpredictable the future may become and your life might just take a drastic change within seconds.
It gave me an opportunity to take a few steps back on my busy schedule to look at my life now and compared it to the same day I was 5 years ago, and 10 years ago.
What was apparent to me was my environment changed and most amazingly the way I evaluate and handle situation changed. 10 years ago I was a very dependant young lad, complaining and trying to be as rebellious as possible. Being a teenager, challenging my parents advice in every possible way and didn't care less for the future. The constant nagging and advice from them came to me as a punishment and I hated that. But most amazingly, the harsh actions they showered me shaped me to who I am today.
The transition from being under the wing of my parents to soaring the skies on my own was surprisingly not a hard one, and when I stop and looked back I started to know why. I came from a medium classed family, but unlike most of you, at a very young age I was forced to accept the harsh reality of life. I went to school envying my friends who had pocket money when I had none. I played with toys that my friends has because I have none. When friends would start to discuss a TV show that was screened the previous night I would seat quietly and just listen afraid that they would asked if I have seen the show because my house didn't have one. Ridiculous as it may sounds but I lived without TV for the entire primary and secondary school life, that is a whopping 12 years period. Not because my parents can't afford it but they just wouldn't buy it for me. Asking money from my parents became something I fear, because of the constant nagging and rejection time and time and time again. I came to realise quickly that the only way to get what I want is to I have my own money. I started working part time jobs to earn my own money.
Looking back .... hanging out with friends, buying snacks, clothes, laptop, phones, studying abroad, car, all of them mostly I had to use my own money. My dad didn't believe in the philosophy of providing anything else other than the necessity, but wants me to work for it. He became my bank broker and would provide me with loans and I would have to pay him back. This pushed me to the edge, had me quickly learn that its me against the world and to rely on no one else.
Fast forward into the present, I realised because what I have gone through, I am a stronger person.
What triggered me having this thought was an incident that happened a few hours ago while I was busy working as usual when I slipped and landed hard on my back on the edge of the stairs. It was raining heavily and I laid on the ground drenched with water clenching my teeth with pain and trying my best to get up but my legs just wouldn't budge for a whole good minute. I drove to the nearest clinic for a check up and was in excruciating pain. While waiting for my name to be called, I recalled how lucky I was because if I were to twitch a little and landed square on my backbone or if my head were to hit the stairs it would have done some serious damage. Thank god for protection. Although I am in pain now and couldn't even lean forward I am pretty grateful that nothing serious was inflicted. It came to me as a reminder that life is indeed fragile and you don't need to wait for something drastic to happen before appreciating it. Anything could happen ... everyone knows that we will eventually die but no one wants to believe in it, because if we did, we would be living our live's differently.
It gave me an opportunity to take a few steps back on my busy schedule to look at my life now and compared it to the same day I was 5 years ago, and 10 years ago.
What was apparent to me was my environment changed and most amazingly the way I evaluate and handle situation changed. 10 years ago I was a very dependant young lad, complaining and trying to be as rebellious as possible. Being a teenager, challenging my parents advice in every possible way and didn't care less for the future. The constant nagging and advice from them came to me as a punishment and I hated that. But most amazingly, the harsh actions they showered me shaped me to who I am today.
The transition from being under the wing of my parents to soaring the skies on my own was surprisingly not a hard one, and when I stop and looked back I started to know why. I came from a medium classed family, but unlike most of you, at a very young age I was forced to accept the harsh reality of life. I went to school envying my friends who had pocket money when I had none. I played with toys that my friends has because I have none. When friends would start to discuss a TV show that was screened the previous night I would seat quietly and just listen afraid that they would asked if I have seen the show because my house didn't have one. Ridiculous as it may sounds but I lived without TV for the entire primary and secondary school life, that is a whopping 12 years period. Not because my parents can't afford it but they just wouldn't buy it for me. Asking money from my parents became something I fear, because of the constant nagging and rejection time and time and time again. I came to realise quickly that the only way to get what I want is to I have my own money. I started working part time jobs to earn my own money.
Looking back .... hanging out with friends, buying snacks, clothes, laptop, phones, studying abroad, car, all of them mostly I had to use my own money. My dad didn't believe in the philosophy of providing anything else other than the necessity, but wants me to work for it. He became my bank broker and would provide me with loans and I would have to pay him back. This pushed me to the edge, had me quickly learn that its me against the world and to rely on no one else.
Fast forward into the present, I realised because what I have gone through, I am a stronger person.
What triggered me having this thought was an incident that happened a few hours ago while I was busy working as usual when I slipped and landed hard on my back on the edge of the stairs. It was raining heavily and I laid on the ground drenched with water clenching my teeth with pain and trying my best to get up but my legs just wouldn't budge for a whole good minute. I drove to the nearest clinic for a check up and was in excruciating pain. While waiting for my name to be called, I recalled how lucky I was because if I were to twitch a little and landed square on my backbone or if my head were to hit the stairs it would have done some serious damage. Thank god for protection. Although I am in pain now and couldn't even lean forward I am pretty grateful that nothing serious was inflicted. It came to me as a reminder that life is indeed fragile and you don't need to wait for something drastic to happen before appreciating it. Anything could happen ... everyone knows that we will eventually die but no one wants to believe in it, because if we did, we would be living our live's differently.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
What do YOU DESIRE?
I simply wrote this down in words from this video I found very interesting and true.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=448877845163126
What do you desire?
What sort of situation would you like.
What would you like to do if money is not an object. How would you really enjoy spending your life?
Well it is so amazing that as a result of our type of education system, crowds of student says: "I would like to be a painter, a writer, but as everybody knows we can't be earning any money that way. Another person says he wants to live his life riding horses.
Let's go through with this... What do you really want to do?
When we finally got down which the individual says he really want to do. I would say to him : "you do that!"
and erm.. forget the money. Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you would spend your life completing wasting your time. You would be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living that is going on doing things you don't like doing. Which is Stupid!
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spending a miserable way.
And after all if you really do enjoy what you are doing, it doesn't matter what it is, you can eventually be a master of it. The only way to become a master of something is that you are really with it and than you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is.
So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in something, anything you could be interested in you will find others.
But it is absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on doing things you don't like and to teach your children following the same track.
See, what we are doing is, we are bringing up children and educating them to live the same sort of life we ended up living with. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children so that its all wretched and we never get there.
And so, therefore it is so important to consider this question - What is that YOU desire?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=448877845163126
What do you desire?
What sort of situation would you like.
What would you like to do if money is not an object. How would you really enjoy spending your life?
Well it is so amazing that as a result of our type of education system, crowds of student says: "I would like to be a painter, a writer, but as everybody knows we can't be earning any money that way. Another person says he wants to live his life riding horses.
Let's go through with this... What do you really want to do?
When we finally got down which the individual says he really want to do. I would say to him : "you do that!"
and erm.. forget the money. Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you would spend your life completing wasting your time. You would be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living that is going on doing things you don't like doing. Which is Stupid!
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spending a miserable way.
And after all if you really do enjoy what you are doing, it doesn't matter what it is, you can eventually be a master of it. The only way to become a master of something is that you are really with it and than you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is.
So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in something, anything you could be interested in you will find others.
But it is absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on doing things you don't like and to teach your children following the same track.
See, what we are doing is, we are bringing up children and educating them to live the same sort of life we ended up living with. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children so that its all wretched and we never get there.
And so, therefore it is so important to consider this question - What is that YOU desire?
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