The Mantra

" The only race, is with yourself. The only competition, is with your fears, doubts and personal ghosts. The only thing you have to beat is your own limit "

Repeat when in massive attack of mood swing. Like now.

Gosh I'm really sometimes too hard on myself. 

Today's Reminder : L.O.V.E

I stumble upon this beautiful article about love. OK, article about love is overrated but this one  is about kids 4-8 years old describes love - and instead of cheesy, it gets me as sincere, naive, honest and funny. As I read along,  my eyes get stuck on this  :

 “You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it.

But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”

jessica – age 8

Well, this kid is very perceptive, I should say.

In our daily routine, we often take things for granted, we often forget to say to the ones we love how much they mean for us. We often take their presence for granted, and we get used to them being around us. But what if somehow, someday, they suddenly stop being around?  That someday God decides to no longer prolong their presence in our life? It will be very sad and ironic, if we never let the ones we love know about the fact that we love them, that their presence mean the world for us. That they are irreplaceable and worth the whole universe. In fact, our universe somehow exist because of them :)

Text your dad. Call your mom. Email your siblings. IM your cousins and relatives. Contact your dear friends, near or far. Kiss your significant  other. Hug your pets,

And tell them how much you love them :)

In the end, it's all about our own point of view and perspective...

What do you see in the picture?

Is it an old , bald military man with beard?

Or is it a picture of an old beggar, a mother holding her child and a dog laying at the street?

In the end I believe that whatever big picture we see, it is the matter of perspective and point of view. Of how we perceive something. Of how we want these things to be seen. Sometimes, we only see things we want to see, based on our own point of view. Sometimes, we see different things with other people, regardless it's actually the same picture we see. Different people will have different interpretation over the same picture, and it is not wrong at all. Our background, our experience, our personality, shapes our perspective and point if view into something unique. Something that varies from one person to another. Something diverse, something that makes the world beautiful. Just like how rainbow is beautiful due to its varieties of color. With open minds, these difference point of views can be something enriching. And seeing different things over one same big picture,is not a mistake. At all.