3 powerful lessons I have learned by just TRYING...

Back then when ignorance dominates my reason I used to fear exploring what I find uncertain; be it asking the girl I like for a date or asking my boss for a raise or talking to my neighbor about their loud music, I’m always intercepted by the fear that I will somehow fail to get a favorable response. Perhaps it is my mind’s tendency to avoid rejection and conflict that prevents me from making any effort to get...

Have you hug them lately?...

Since our birth, these people have taken care of us. Despite our stubbornness, ignorance and unruliness, they have been patient with us. Love was all they have for us no matter what we do. How can we ever be without our parents? But as soon as we have gained independence we slowly take for granted their love and sacrifices. As the child becomes the parent and the parent becomes the child, we become stiff with our...

Hope exist where the spirit thrives...

Have you come to a certain point in your life when hope seems to falter—a condition in which you are so stricken that you want to give up? As long as there’s life there’s hope. Let me share a little story to lift your spirit. One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, and the...

Gossip: What makes it enticing?...

Gossips are oftentimes amusing to our ears and it makes me wonder why it has been so. I’m not a hypocrite so as to deny that I’m not entertained by it. However, I have learned many times that it does not benefit me in any way—let alone my ensuing wrong impression to the person involved. In fact, it has mostly clouded my reason, thereby prompting me to make unfounded judgment upon the object of...

Is it ideal to be married?...

Marriage has been defined as the union between two persons, traditionally of a man and a woman, and usually entailing legal obligations to each other. When two people have deep feelings for each other marriage vows becomes inevitable. The unification in marriage has somehow given each the security that they will have exclusivity of the other; and with the Church as witness, the union is deemed absolute. Sadly,...