Value is subjective

I’d very much like to rave about internships but I’m often not sufficiently blessed. HOWEVER, I’m not quite going to complain.

For one, income is required after the ostentatious december. Plus I may one day need to recite the different cities in UK to save my life. Being part of a big organization is eye-opening. Being part of the Shenton Way crowd is a push in the direction of unhealthy weight loss. Being an intern means I can escape grown-up responsibilities for at least one more month.

Nevertheless, my work email is available to those who want to entertain me once in a while. (For those unaware, banks block half of the world wide web.)

On a separate note, old friends are the best people to remind you what’s really important

True Heart

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

— Anne Frank

2008 seemed very long at certain junctures. As always, the happy moments were ever so fleeting. I suppose the end of the year is a good time to take stock of the blessings and lament (just a little) over the opportunities missed or mistakes made. Still isn’t it funny that we do this once a year and be clumsy about life for most of the time?

Maybe I grew a little better, maybe I didn’t. Whatever it is, I hope I’m humble enough to always look into the mirror closely at what/who I’ve become.

Behind

There’s a little truth behind every just kidding, a little curiosity behind every just wondering, a little knowledge behind every I don’t know, and a little emotion behind every I don’t care.

Pre-New Year Resolutions

Stop being nice.
As being bitchy gives you what you deserve; being nice don’t.

Stop allowing people to affect me.
No one has the right to screw with my life other than me.

My Grown-up Christmas List

Merry Christmas

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. — Agnes M. Pharo

“Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To every child, a good example.

To a friend/family, your heart.

To yourself, respect.”

All along

As long as
tengo mi familia con yo
nothing else matters.

Andrew Boyd’s Daily Afflictions

“You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. To seek enlightenment is to seek annihilation, rebirth, and the taking up of burdens. You must come prepared to touch and be touched by each and every thing in heaven and hell.”

Problems, Solutions and Facts

  ”If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact–not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”

~ Shimon Peres