Monday, January 12, 2009

Life's Little Lessons


I always believe that the greatest teacher is LIFE! everyday--a marvelous lesson is taught.With every new day---exciting lifetime opportunities unfolds in our very eyes...and we have to be prepared to face all of these mysteries----opportunities to LIVE--TO LEARN AND TO GROW. As we little by little open our eyes to the wonders of life's lesson---our awakenness becomes distinct and define. As i reflect on my life now--I cant help but ponder on life's little lessons and see how I've been learning.


A. On self-love. I believe that the easiest thing to do in the world and yet we are so afraid to do is is to be US--to express who we really are. Truly, many times, its difficult to just be ourselves...so many people expects something different from us---these expectations usually leads us to another direction--at times--much different from what we truly want for ourselves.


B. On Affection and Warmth. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn our and other people's lives around. The world had been turning upside-down--making all of us cold even in our expression of love and care. We need not be afraid to touch, to feel or to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what and who we are, what we feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want us to be.


C. On our human needs.We need others just as we need ourselves. We need others to love and we need to be loved in return. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.But now--how come there is so much loneliness, so much pain and so much feeling of so "unloved" in people? Isnt not that if we miss love--we're missing life too?


Life is turly our responsibility--let us learn from each lessons and see what we can do to live life to the fullest. The challenge continues.....