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Sunday, January 30, 2011

have you ever made a list of the things you want to do someday?

today, i realized i have a list.. that we all have a list. that list may be long or short, dense with detailed descriptions or light with an air of flexibility.

i'm done pretending that someday i'll remember what's on my list.. i want, but never put what i want as primary. it is always secondary to the practical, to the things i have to do instead of what i want to do. i always think i'll get around to it, but the truth is, i never do.

today, i'm making a list. it's a random list off the top of my head of what i will do someday. i'm going to go about checking off as many as i can.. and make sure this list never ends. i want to keep listing and keep checking things off for as long as my time will allow me to.

we all need ambition, we all need practicality. but the truth is, what makes us happy can stem from the simplest things. i don't need very much, yet too often i am working for what i hope to have instead of enjoying what simply is.

i don't want life to pass me by.. and i don't want to limit myself by doing what i'm comfortable doing instead of thinking about what i can be doing. this is my life.. all of it. all my aspirations, as well as who i simply am. and i don't want to forget that.

1) read a good book with a cup of coffee

2) drive to the beach and lose myself there

3) drive off to nowhere and exit somewhere

4) get on a plane, land, and explore

5) find time to forget everything

6) find courage to travel to a foreign country alone

7) watch phantom of the opera or wicked, good seats

8) go to a spa

9) sleep and wake up to the silent sound of awakening

10) enjoy a day of light music and slow-paced cooking

11) go somewhere with a camera and no cell phone

12) find someone to watch the clouds with

13) hug someone until i'm ready to let go

14) sit under a tree on a tall hill and enjoy the slow maneuvor of time

15) make my own dress

16) knit another scarf, this time for myself

17) visit a lake and go canoeing

18) watch a classic movie, the ones in black and white

19) biking under the soft shades of nature

20) sing a love song to someone i love

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Playing Prophet =)

i've been meaning to start writing blogs again since forever ago.. but i don't know if it's because life always has something waiting for me to do, to keep doing, to start doing.. and the part of me that loves writing has been postponed for quite a while.

i wonder what will happen this week.. =) i think it will never cease to excite me.. that i still don't know what will happen when each day starts.. where after closing my eyes for a bit of time, i always open them to find yet another day waiting for me.

there was a time when i wanted to play prophet of my life, and guess what might happen tomorrow, what will happen 5 years, 10 years from now. but my prophecies were always wrong.. life always surprised me.. it still does.. that sometimes i think life intentionally does what i Never thought could happen, just to prove to me that life is beyond my imagination haha.. and it's great :). because i'd like to think that no matter what happens, it's my life. and no one will live one quite like mine, ever again.

because life never deals the same life, twice.

and no one before you, or after you, will ever be you, again. :).

i bought this little book of quotes that i just read when i'm bored. the book title is "GIRLS RULE! The Power of YOU!" LOL :)!

some quotes may seem obvious, some quotes may seem redundant. but just because you think you understand something doesn't mean you really do, nor that you in any way live by what you understand. sometimes it takes time to dissolve what you think you know, to become what you live by.. because belief without action is of little use. just as fantasy is just fantasy until it becomes a goal you're willing to work for to become reality.

here are some of my favorite quotes from my little book. :] enjoy ~

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"Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous. There's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again." - Jewel

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland

"The moment someone says to me, 'This is very risky,' is the moment it becomes attractive to me." - Kate Capshaw

"Don't let anybody tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel." - Melissa Etheridge

"I'm the type who will pick up the pieces, put them back together and go give it another shot. Because I don't like nothing breaking me or conquering me. So I'm inclined to keep fighting with it until I win." - Queen Latifah

"I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life: Brave is that word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be." - Sandra Bullock

"I'm not in any rush to impress anybody. I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me." - Lauryn Hill

"Life's a game. You set the rules, you keep the score, and with the right attitude, you always win." - Beth Mende Conny

"I like pressure. If I'm not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged." - Jewel

"I want to keep my own definition of myself. I don't ever want to feel that I've evaporated into somebody else's idea of me..." - Meg Ryan

"When anyone tells me I can't do anything, why, I'm not listening anymore." - Florence Griffith Joyner

"Every day it's nice to stop and say, 'Wait a minute! I am so lucky! This is great!'" - Kate Hudson

"When I think about it now, it almost seems like naivete - this unshakable, blind faith that success was supposed to happen to me. I never considered giving up and going home. I always thought 'Oh, it's just around the corner.'" - Geena Davis

"Don't let people tell you it can't be done or it's never been done. A winner often proves everyone wrong and isn't afraid to be the first." - Tara Lipinski

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" - Ann Landers

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

"I don't want to have a perfect image. I want room to make mistakes." - Brandy

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