Love Yourself

Enough Said. 

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Perfect Sanctuary

Waialu Valley, Molokai, Hawaii. This is one of the places I have to visit in the near future. Perfect Sanctuary. Don't you think so? 

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Serene Nature

I was just intrigued with this photo. It makes me so serene and calm. What do you guys think?

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Faith

Watching this makes you feel like you can so much more to make a better life. If Faith can do it, then we can do it!

Self-Sacrifice. For the good of the kin.

 I like to believe that mankind are a complex being. Read this and you'll understand.

Summer Break

Sorry for the late update. Since summer started I haven't had the time to write anything most likely cause well its summer and i'm on a break from literally everything. Will be back once I get inspirations again, till then see you guys soon. Have a great summer!

Biologically We Are All The Same

Think about it. Being born, we are biologically the same thing. We breathe air with our lungs in the exchange of CO2 and 02. We contract muscles as we accumulate rigorous exercises. We see with our retina that is composed of rods and cones that is sent, processed and interpreted in our occipital lobe. Our autonomic nervous system is divided into the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system that allows us to stimulates adrenaline that allows us to survive through our evolutionary time and induce fight or flight response and maintain our level of homeostasis. Theoretically, the only difference that accounts physically is our phenotype characteristics(E.g skin, hair, eyes). But realistically, what we perceive to be simple is the reason for prejudice and racism which probably have and will be one of our hardest social epidemic to cure. Oh wait, i'm not even sure that there is a cure for prejudice and racism. Ironically, inside we really are the same. I saw in geographic channel that there is a database for the genotype of everyone all over the world and we can find out how close is our DNA materials to another individual through a simple test(extracting our blood to compare the alleles). Turns out what we do not expect, we have the possibility of being closely related that someone opposite to our "race". There was a chance that someone who is supposably Asian American but has the exact number of Allele and DNA chromosome as someone who is Nigerian. Turns out, our exterior is just a shell. Internally, we are more similar than we perceive to be. If then, why do such phenomenon as racism or prejudice exist? I will discuss this matter soon in my next entry. Till next time.

Fundamental Attribution Error

It is said that as humans we have this capability called the "fundamental attribution error". For those of you who are not clear to what it means, basically it means for humans to have the tendency to overestimate the influence of personality and underestimating the influence of situations. I believe this is the cause of the prejudice and misunderstanding of our relations with other people. Don't you find it true? We do this everyday. Take a hypothetical situation of being in a classroom every new semester starts. We judge people's behavior through the way the situation puts them. If "A", being a hypothetical person is friendly, warm and funny we perceive them to have an outgoing personality. If "A" acted cold, quite and unfriendly, then we inferred that person to be not nice. In other words, we tend to attribute a person's behavior to their personal disposition even when we know that the behavior is "situational". My question here is that, does that mean we are not suppose to judge anyone based on the situation? OF course not. There are times when the fundamental attribution error is to our advantage. If there is someone who is carrying a knife in front of you, surely we "judge" them as someone who we do not want to be with or stay close to. But to what extent should we have this capability? I would say according to context. Whether we achieved this state through biological or evolutionary gene from our ancestors, there are times to use it to our advantage and others we should not. In everyday life, we often struggle to explain other's actions. Our past experiences determines our attribution to decide what is best for us. Whether the consequences is good or bad, we move on with our lives. However, you should know that this attribution theory is evident in our lives. Just think about it, how do you get accepted to your chosen universities? Isn't mostly because of your academic standing, what you do for the community and your reputation as a person? Or your job? For me, its just the way our society has become. We can't exactly blame them for what we have become but the point to remember is to be careful to an individual's dispositions or to their situations. Our actions have REAL consequences. 

Are we the same as we used to be?

Everyday, we do the things that we often might have not expect to happen. We meet people whom we later on call as friends, we fulfill our daily needs:groceries, chores, homework, etc, we ran into unexpected accidents that could change our lives. These qualities as time embodies its reflection in our soul change who we are. My question is that at some point of our lives, are we going to reflect whom we used to be? What changes that constitutes who we are today is different than who we used to be? Will it be a regret? Or Relief? I tried looking back who I used to be and honestly, I was a "freak" as society would perceive my soul. I thought of negativity around the people, the world and its existence. Maybe I was just a kid back then, I had not seen the world yet but now, I do have seen the world in a wider perspective. I may not literally seen the world big enough but what I think about the world is better now. I see that people are divided into two categories: The one who are blind and the one who sees through everything, somewhat of clairvoyant quality perhaps. Those who are blind can never understand that there are those who care about them, who is unable to understand what the world is really like, and the power that they might have had to make the world better. Those who refuse to make better and fix our past mistakes. Truly it is pitiful. Humans are the strangest creatures in this world. We are an enigma. We have the potential to do almost anything, given our capability of synapses to join and create thoughts that can construct whatever world we desire but we choose to ignore it and instead use it for the gain of greed and world domination. As I age and reflect who I used to be, I am one of those people who thinks that they are able to "destroy" the world what we lived in, but now....I have seen it better. The world isn't a scary place, its our thoughts and desire whom what we should really fear. 

What is feeling good?

When is it that you feel good about yourself? 

The Way I see The World

What are the expectations that we must fulfill in our lives? To get good grades? To go into a top notch school that everybody, by everybody i mean like society thinks its "upper class"? Its not that Im saying is bad or anything but I feel like if we are obliged to do what everyone says or thinks then what about the things that we really want? If nobody tells you that say being a doctor is by far the most important profession in the world but instead say being a musician or artists makes the greatest salary....Wouldn't the world turns upside down? Wouldn't our perspective about the occupations of the world change completely? Imagine yourself that you just never are burdened by the thoughts of the pressure of your particular community, imagine what you will able to do. Maybe thats the reason why there are no such thing as an original idea anymore. I'm sorry if I'm being selfish but hey that is how I see the world. Isn't that why the reason why you get up in the morning, do your so called job, to earn money, whether you actually like the job or not, you do it because its an obligation to society. Then probably being undecided is something not to be shameful about. The world is a big place and there is nothing shameful to not know what you want. We are not enforced to what society expects us to be but instead find what we are really good at and develop that talent by our own desire. True, maybe I'm being selfish, but isn't this our lives? Shouldn't we have a say in this? Honestly, I blame the way we are now because of the world. If not only the world doesn't function this way, it doesn't function on materialism, capitalism, different political and religious views....then maybe, just maybe the world will be in a better place. A place where us young generations are not constricted by the predicament of our parents and what the community tells us. 

Fiction Vs Reality

Have you ever feel that when you see a movie and somehow you feel like the fictional character living the story of that life, has a very similar life to you? Cause i feel i do. I think all of us do. We try to search what we want and what we want to see in every aspect of life. True, they may have several similarities with us but at some point we do have to realize not all life is a fairy tale. There is in fact a reality to every fairy tale. Do you think all princess wait for their prince to be "saved"? Would Cinderella wait for prince charming to save her from her tyrant evil mom and sisters? Would Snow White still be asleep waiting for her prince charming to kiss her? Eventually, if we remove the equation of prince charming would the princesses eventually save themselves? I think eventually...they have to. Otherwise, its just plain stupidity that you rely your life simply based on fictional characters and their lives. We have to rely on our self at some point. We really do. 

Rules of Society

I wonder what does it mean....to live? Are there social obligations that we must fulfill in order to feel satisfied? Are there quotas to what we must fill in order to qualify to being alive? Do we define our life through the people we met over the years? Is it just the many reasons that we, humans justify to define what it actually means to be alive. Can't we just live the way we want to live without any sense of burden to fill in for others and just live the way we want to? Don't you think the reasons why you choose to pursue education, get a job, get married and have kids is not because you want to actually do it but because the world is telling you so? Don't you think that because of these so called quotas that we do it? Ask yourself, if we are not bound by the rules and obligations, wouldn't you just want to be free and do anything that you want? Don't get me wrong but sometime I blame the world that we move to fast and there is just this burden that we have to carry in order to belong in this world. Who decides that we are being alive or not just because of the status that we accomplished? Just because that we don't live to certain peoples expectations doesn't mean that we are bound by what is the society wants from us. I feel like sometimes we are trapped in society's restrictions, well to some extent, to say the least. Society do restricts us from what is bad and wrong within our human morale but then again it limits to what we are able to achieve and construct. Overall, i really believe that the idea of society is a double-edged sword. 

The idea of Gossiping

Why is it that we hate each other? Is there a reason why we can smile in front of others but then we decide to talk behind their backs? What I want to ask all of you is that do we not only enjoy hatred, deceits and cynicism but takes pleasure from it? Don't you feel like doing so within your community strengthens the bond of your relationship with them? That "gossiping" about others makes you feel closer to the people whom you never thought was just like you before. But when we think of it, is it really a good thing? I must say, to some extent it does. Should I lie saying that doing that degrades our humane values? But then, the feeling of enjoying other's pain and misery somehow brightens our day? I know its mean but don't you think the fact that at some point in your lives you have at least gossip about someone? To me its so funny that we talk about other people behind their backs but you also realize that at another place at the same time, someone must be talking about you too. Its really, ironic really but I think its just the part of us being human. We socialize. No matter what exactly are we talking about, we do enjoy the act of being together with other people, talking about a common hatred or subject that we can both agree on. I think that is the reason why we enjoy gossiping, I'm not saying its a good thing but it's not a bad thing either. You just have to accept that the world hates and loves you at the same time. What we lack in love, we make up in the hate of hating others. It's just primal instinct I suppose, we choose to hate because its easier than love, hate makes us survive into stronger and tougher being, and hate provides us the sanity of the world. Because honestly? A world without hate? I don't want to live in that world. Its gonna be so mundane. 

What am I?

Let me go in, let me see who i am, let me understand who have i become

Who am I? 

Who am I? 

What is it that I have become, the animosity inside is growing, fearing that it flies away, come.

What is it that I have become, the dove that grows through souls 

What is it that I have become, the purple crown that i wore is lavish like jewels

Do you not see? My reflection is all i need from you. All i need from you. 

If all you see are my clones, then i will undone myself, not from the world, 

but from you

Do I regret my past?

First love, what can i say? They are the ones we remember throughout our whole life. Looking behind, the moments where you begin to feel like you are transitioning into an adult, where we start noticing the small things that he did, stupid or not we do not really care. Do we see everything in happiness? Not necessarily. Realistically, we see that even though not all of our first love comes true, there are times where we really believe that it could happen. That we believed being with him would eventually lead to being together, that his and my feelings were reciprocal. But.....what have we become? Have we lose the "believing" part? Is it because of adulthood, responsibilities and obligations that we lose our innocence as a child? Or is it just a part of growing up. Happy endings or not, the memory that we did as a child is truly nostalgic. We can't blame our past actions due to our naivety and small perception of the world but what we did.....I never regret every single minute of it. 

Who should i become?

What do we do when we are tired of repeating the same thing over and over again everyday? 

Do we have this unresolved feelings that we must somehow confront when it is time? 

Do we challenge ourselves everyday with the obstacles that hinders us from reaching what we want?

All of these, are we not tired of doing over and over again? It might helps us built who we have become but to reach that stage, isn't it hard enough to confront what we most truly fear in order to grow into a better person. Sometimes, doing it is not as easy as you think. Do we become the person who we do not want? Or we can become someone who we have become truly who we wanted. The future is uncertain, but all we have to do is do good something every day. Maybe we can become a better person someday, something that we can let others know who we truly are. I just hope that someday you will appreciate who i have become. 

Are we in control of our lives?

Maybe, when you look at this, you try make sense of what I am writing. Some of you might think that i am writing out of sense but maybe some of you can relate to what I am about to write. Everyday, Every hour, every minute and every second, we do our daily day to day activities. But do we truly understand why we are given the opportunity to do so? Haven't you wonder the reason why you are where you are? Doesn't it give you the slightest fear that we are not in control of what we will become? Do we simply just act the way live revolves around us and not us revolving around them. Are our daily activities simply just a preconceived notion of something that has already been determined by a higher authority figure of the universe? Maybe. If so, are we judge by our actions? Do our choices determines who we become? Can we become someone that others are proud of? But the underlying question is that why are given the choice to live? To breathe? To feel? Or is everything just an illusion, something that could be a dream that we can just simply be awake of one day and realize, its not our lives anymore that we are living, instead its someone else's. 

IF.....

If love is absolute, then you do not need to ask if you are in love. Otherwise you're not in love, you're simply reassuring yourself you are, but in reality you are not. 

Status

I find it really weird when random people or your friends would "re-tweet" and "like" your status even though that status has a negative connotation or that you are in pain. It's creepy. 

Partners

I really hate it when people say if asked in a relationship, "Who are you?" or "How do you see your self?" and they would reply that they are defined through their partners. I mean come on, is your self esteem that low that you have to rely the definition of your being through the existence of your partner? You should have a voice too, don't just do whatever he/she tells you to do, otherwise it is NOT a relationship, its more of a contract that you agreed on upon your relationship. 

Happy New Years!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE

Hope you are enjoying celebrating with your loved ones wherever you are. 

Sending lots of love from the West Coast.