Life’s journal…

To all former co-benchers, classmates, batchmates, schoolmates…or what Viw has said "anyone who has been acquainted with ‘The Bench’…" if you could spare a piece of your precious time, check out this cool website, "The Virtual Bench", created by Viw. (click on it at the sidebar)

You definitely won’t regret it!… but if you’re too busy, then i got three words for you… YOUR LOSS!!…Sucker!!

Viw, i’m still looking for pics of ‘the bench’…. wait! …… oh that’s why i can’t find any `coz all of my pics are with the TERE! i guess she stashed it in her bag while she was at my place during my birthday…or when she stayed overnight…or was it Christmas?! tsk! tsk! tsk! taking advantage of my kindness and hospitality. tsk! tsk! tsk! (sigh!)

Some people laugh at love..
They laugh at marriage..
They laugh at happiness..
It is because they have had bad experiences that deeply hurt them.
They are cynical now, doubting anything in life that is beautiful.

Don’t listen to these people.
Love is essential to a happy life.
Don’t be afraid to love someone totally and completely.
Love is the most fulfilling and beautiful feeling in the world.
Don’t be afraid that you will get hurt,
Or that the other person won’t love you,
There is a risk in everything you do,
And the rewards are never so great as what love can bring.

Things aren’t always perfect.
No one is perfect,
Therefore no relationship can be perfect,
But everything worth anything has flaws in it.

So take risks.
Love with all your heart.
Love with all your mind.
Let yourself get involved completely and honestly,
And enjoy the possibility that what happens
Might be the only real source of happiness…
It will be more than worthwile.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got  together to visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work  and life.  Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -  porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What  all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in  society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change."

"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

When I was little, I used to believe
in the concept of one best friend,
and then I started to become a woman.
And then I found out that if you allow your heart
to open up, God would show you the best in many friends.  One friend is needed when you’re going through things with your man.  Another friend is needed when you’re going through things with your mom.  Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.

One friend will say let’s pray together, another
let’s cry together, another let’s fight together,
another let’s walk away together.  One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another
your love for movies, another will be with
you in your season of confusion, another will be
your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings.

But whatever their assignment in your life,
on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day,
or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym
shoes on and hair pulled back, or to hold you back from
making a complete fool of yourself … those are your best friends.
It may all be wrapped up in one woman,
but for many it’s wrapped up in several…
one from 7th grade, one from high school, several
from the college years, a couple from old jobs,
several from church, on some days your mother,
on some days your neighbor, on others your sisters,
and on some days your daughters.

Cheers to the women that God has placed in my life.