Thoughts to ponder

Think about this:

• at least two people in this world love you so much...they would die for you :-)

• at least 15 people in this world love you in some ways.

• the only reason anyone would hate you is because they want to be just like you!

• a smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you. :-)

• every night, someone thinks about you before they go to sleep.

• you mean the world to someone.

• you are special and one of a kind!

• someone that you don't know exists and loves you.

• when you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes out of it. :-)

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I got this from a note I found in my sister's old wallet while she was transferring her things to the new one. I think it gives her the optimism I usually find in here. That's why I'm sharing it here in my blog, to encourage others to appreciate their lives!

Stay happy!

Is He Jai Ho?

How weird can a dream get? For me, by far, last night’s dream was not the weirdest, but it does boggle my mind even until now.

Last night, I dreamed that I was riding a bus with two women who I easily befriended. They told me they were in this bus to see their crush, who will be coming up in the next bus stop. We talked about that for a while until we arrived at the bus stop. Lo, to much of my surprise, I saw someone who is so familiar, since he was my crush when I was a senior in high school. And I was more surprised when then ladies at my back giggled. So he was who they were referring to! I think he knew I had a crush at him in high school but I don’t mind anymore since I don’t have a crush on him now. He smiled at me, so I smiled back. He sat beside me and talked about things, and then surprised me even more when he asked me if I wanted to go out with him. “It’s not like a date or something”, he said, so I agreed to go.

The two girls went with us, acting like they were close friends with Z (let’s just call him Z, it’s a bother having to use pronouns always…). We went to a cinema. I didn’t mind that for some reasons Z have to sit between them. But before the movie started he whispered to me that he has something he wanted to give me, and in exchange I have to show him the pictures I took of him in our graduation. Oops, how did he know about that? I would have asked if I didn’t wake up.

This wouldn’t have bothered me that much, except that I haven’t seen his face or is picture for more than four years now, and yet I still remember what he looked like, unlike my other friends. Furthermore, this is the second time that I dreamed of him, the last time I was in my second year in college. It did also boggled my mind in the past, contributing to my recent reaction. Does this mean anything at all? Maybe. Maybe not. My law classmate tells me he might be jai ho (my destiny). But I don’t think so, since I haven’t met him yet in years, whenever I go home and we drove by his house I don’t see him ( not that I always look for him, but I do, out of habit, search for familiar faces in my hometown). Jai ho or not, his being part of my dream twice is quite remarkable, since none of my friends starred in it for more than once, and only my cousins, sister and brother are the exemption. Plus, his face was so vivid in both dreams, while most of my dreams usually have vague images in which I only recognize the people because of strong familiarity.

As with my other nice dreams, one thing I hated was having to wake up before my anticipated part. Now I still have to guess what that gift would have been. If that was a ring, it could have signified jai ho. Would have I accepted it? Maybe. I would never know.

Life's Great!

Grateful. In every day of our lives we should be thankful, my SHARIAH 1 instructor said. I definitely agree with that.

From the moment we wake up, we should be grateful that we are alive. Well, here's a small part of the long list of the things I'm thankful for:

1. The hours that I've slept, it made me rest my tired mind, eyes and body.
2. The beautiful morning.
3. Even my uncle who happily thinks he had disturbed my sleep with that superloud songs in the player. Well, he does disturbs the sleep, but I'm thankful that he wakes us up that way, rather than shoving water in my face!
4. The fresh air I am able to take in as I wake up. The air gets polluted in the highway as I got to work and school.
5. The work I have! It gets me going.
6. My bosses, they are so kind to me, who's just a beginner in this field.
7. My colleagues, we are not of the same field, but as we are working in the same place, they are so friendly to me. I thought of myself as special, because I'm the only girl in the workplace as of the moment.
8. My sister, who's always there for me, through the best of times, and the worst of times.
9. My brother, who really annoys me quite a lot, but whom I rely on to crack a funny joke when I'm down.
10. My mom. Gosh, think of where I will be now if not for her! Every time I get sick, I think of my mom, and misses her.
11. My dad. All the things I'm able to do now I owe to him. He supported me when I thought I could not get through anymore, and he never said anything bad against me. He gives me constructive criticism, and even now I misses his loud voice, laughing at something wrong I've done, because he knows I could have done it better.
12. My lola, I really miss her. Everytime Christmas comes, I remember her, our Mrs. Santa Claus, who prepares the gifts around our little Christmas tree, and says it came from Santa. And we would readily believe, until we were 9 years old, we still believed that claim.
13. AND A WHOLE LOT MORE TO BE THANKFUL FOR! THE LIST NEVER ENDS...

So I wanted to extend my thanks to everyone and everything who hav touched my life. Truly, because of you all, LIFE"S GREAT!