SNIPPETS OF MY LIFE

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.

Laugh often and it will cleanse your mind.  Laugh often at yourself and it will cleanse your heart.  Though we often seem to forget natural remedies to life, one of the best ways to clean our hearts, and purge our thoughts, is to laugh as often as possible.  A little known fact about a smile is how much harder it is to frown than smile.  When you smile you use less energy and less effort than you do when you frown, and this is symbolic of what happens in everyday life as well. When you go through life, in a celebratory fashion, with passion, motivation, drive, happiness, and a kind attitude, you will find that life is much less stressful than if you chose to go through life in a negative fashion.  Instead of giving your focus to the negative, make a mission to be as positive as possible each day.  Make a pledge to laugh often, so that your mind will be as free as it may possibly be.

...and i just wanted to shout and prolong it,,,,i wanna tell the world that i'm already thirttttyyyy! so proud to say it! haha. I realized just last week that my age right now is my favorite number. It just dawned on me that I am actually already 30. (I know, it took me half a year to realize that but for some reason for the past few months I felt like I was in a cave and have just recently emerged, ergo, the late realization…) For the past years, my favorite number is 2 and 0, and since my age was already added by 10, I just thought, maybe this year things will turn out to be very positive for me at this time of year.. Hmm.. Hopefully it is!  Just for curiosity sake though, I googled the number 30 and found some interesting stuff relating to the number: In the Bible: The number 30 can symbolize dedication to a particular task or calling. Aaronic priests were dedicated to serve at 30, in part because it was the age when a person reached both physical and mental...

Let's all heave a quick sigh of relief: my stress is temporarily abated. For now, it doesn't feel like it's going to choke the life out of me; it's acting like it's happy to hang around in the background, doing a delicate dance of coming up too strong and close, then pulling back when I'm about to lose it. I guess I have a habit of freaking the hell out with the amount of stress I have, and in so doing, it dissipates some. That, and, I get fed up with all the shit causing the stress that I tackle it like a crazy beast, and at the very least, things get scratched off the to-do list and I feel better. So right now, the water is calm, and I'm enjoying it. There are things brewing in the distance, both work-related and personal, that will surely up the stress levels soon enough. They will. I'm in a very busy and important time of year for my work, and the things that have popped into my life without any friggin' warning - like, not even a sign, or ...