My Wake Up Call
I saw my loved ones crying, I saw my life past through me in a glimpse of an eye. I keep on telling my two kids how I really love them but they didn’t hear me at all. I think I’m dead, and then all of a sudden it was total darkness. That was the time when I heard someone says “gising nanana ginip ka! and through a mantle of my wet lashes, I blink back and realized, It was my wakeup call rather than a dream….
There comes a time in our life that we realize that it is time to stop hoping and waiting for something, or someone, for safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon. We must begin making our way through the “reality of today” rather than holding out for the “promise of tomorrow.” We realize that much of who we are, and the way we navigate through life is, in great part, a result of all the social conditioning we’ve received over the course of a lifetime. And begin reassessing and redefining who we are and what we really believe in. And begin to discard the doctrines we have outgrown, or should never have practiced to begin with. We are just a human being, we are not perfect and that not everyone will love, appreciate or approve of who or what we are… but no worries we cannot please everybody. That’s life. Despite that fact we must accept whatever flaws we might have in order to gain self confidence we must first have a self acceptance.
Discover that “it is truly in giving that we receive”… and that the joy and abundance we seek grows out of the giving. Try to recognize the importance of “creating” & “contributing” rather than “obtaining” & “accumulating.”Stop engaging in self-destructive behaviors including participating in dysfunctional relationships. Life isn’t always fair and we don’t always get what we think we deserve, and stop personalizing every loss or disappointment. Accept the facts that sometimes bad things happen and that those things are not an act of God… but merely a random act of fate.
Let’s just give thanks for the simple things we’ve been blessed with, appreciate all the people who cares about us most, who’s always been there through good and bad times. In my darkest, most painful and frightening hours, I always prayed not for the answers to my prayers or for material things but for my “God” to help me find the strength, confidence and courage to persevere, to face each day and to do what I must do. Realize the worth of living in this world, for it may be our last. Stop agonizing what happened yesterday, feel the excitement because tomorrow is unknown, and be grateful for today is a gift a new day to start with… Give thanks, give love, and give hope.
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