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Don’t let the ‘weather’ out there influence you.
Instead, carry your own ‘weather’ within you and not let external factors affect you.
Because you have the freedom and power to choose.
“If we can love someone so much,
how will we be able to handle it the one day when we are separated?
And, if being separated is a part of life,
is it possible that we can love someone and never be afraid of losing them?
At the same time, I was thinking, is it possible that we can live our entire life without loving anyone at all?
That’s my loneliness.“
Mew
The Love of Siam
Just as I was shopping today, a thought of how the different labels that I go for are like the different friends I have.
Polo Ralph Lauren is like my best friend. One whom I have a long relationship with. One who understands me well and fits me exactly. She is always there when I needed her most. We don’t have to always be in touch, but I know when I am in trouble, she will always be there. Just like how the other day a button came off from my shirt, and I have to buy one, after visiting some other brands, I still return to Ralph Lauren and got soemthing that fits exactly and which I am comfortable in in like 5mins. She is always there, though sometimes I kinda fancy the newer “friends” or “brands” that I forgot about her, she is still standing there faithfully welcoming me back.
Lacoste is like my sports buddy or activity buddy. Someone that I’m comfortable with but the relationship is not as deep as to my best friend – Ralph Lauren. She is the person to look for when I wanna do something, just some activity. We don’t have to talk much in depth about our lives but we just do things together. We don’t have to impress one another with fanciful stuffs but we are down to basics. We are comfortable with that and I am not worried about how I may look in front of her.
Tommy Hifiger is like a friend for a season. When at one point of time, we are pretty close. She is the person I got to know and hit it off right away due to some common interest or reason. And so our friendship grew and I was kinda into her for a while. But after some time, I realise we don’t really have that much in common after all. And we are not suited to be life long friends. The topic kinda ran out and we kinda slacken in our contacts. I will still drop by once in a while to check on her but that is that.
Agnes b. is a newly made friends whom I have got to know. I have always admire her but we didn’t get a chance to really mee until one day the opportunity strikes. So being an excited child, I have been rather obsessed about her. Taking all opportunity to hang out with her. And I realise we like similar things and we can really get along. We are like close friend but not as close as that to the best friend. But it feels like the friendship may slacken soon. Liek it’s hard to maintain the friendship. After all, I am not one who is good at that.
Then there are those Korean online shops that I am currently into. They are like those net friends that I made. People whom I interact online but have yet to meet in person or touch. They have this sense of mystery that attracts you. And of course, on the internet, everything looks perfect and good. They are how you want them to be. Until the day where they proved to be lying from what they said. If they are as to what they claimed they are, the friendship will most likely remains. But once, there is a situation where it was proven that all that was spoken was a lie, then the friendship may be striked off immediately. Currently, they are still “fresh” and so I am still into them. Not so much of a disappointment yet and they still present uniqueness. But I know in my heart, the relationship will still not last long.
So that is it. My analogy of how my fav clothign labels are liek friends in my life.
What is happiness?
A question that remains in my head after watching Magique yesterday.
A question that was being asked in the movie, “What makes you happy?”.
I, like the boy in the film, have no answer.
I too don’t know what makes me happy.
As in truly happy.
For very long, I have not understood this feeling or experience of true happiness.
Laughter or smiling does not mean happiness.
So what exactly is happiness?
What about you?
What makes you happy?
“Listen to your instinct
Learn to recognize your own voice
It is the most important voice you will ever hear.”
-Popular
Sometimes the way to get over your pain/ grieve is to simply outrun them.
Strike before they do so.
Quoted partly from Grey’s Anatomy.
I love reading Tuesday with Morrie.
It has been my favorite among the three.
This is one of the rare fiction (is it fiction?) books i’ve read from cover to cover in my entire life.
Paticularly like what was discussed in one of the tuesday – Emotions.
I love books that talk about emotions.
Anyway in the book, Morrie mentioned about detaching oneself from an experience.
And by that, he continues to say how one can truly detach is by letting the experience penetrate you.
So if you are facing any emotions, then you just face the emotions and allow it to penetrate you instead of running away.
By running away, the real issue behind the emotion wil still be there.
Hence, what is important it is to face it and fight it.
Go through the emotion, recognize and understand it.
Once you can recognize the emotion, then you will not be afraid of it anymore.
And by then you will then be able to reign over the emotion not let it control you.
“Silently in pain.
Yet battling pain with silence.
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Pain is awaken by memory.
Yet the pain awakes you too.”
There is a sense of lonliness in everyone.
The different degree of lonliness.
The different type of lonliness.
These can never be seen from the surface or appearance.
Just finished watching Tuesday with Morrie.
Indeed it’s a very inspiring movies with lotsa meaningful quotes teaching you about life.
In fact i think it parallels Christian teachings.
It holds on to the same beliefs and values, i feel.
The clip strikes a chord with me as it touches on my main belief of “Love”.
How i always believe we need more love in the world.
How we should love one another more.
And how we should love ourselves more.
And how we should not be afraid to love and be loved.
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“We must love one another or die”
In my opinion, love is the foundation of life.
Out of love, stems all the other values of trust, compassion, forgiveness and even fear.
Of course, there are so many more but that is to name a few.
But as the world gets more advanced and our life gets more busy, sometimes we took the people around us for granted.
And sometimes we failed to slow down to appreciate all that we had.
We failed to tell our loved ones “I love you”.
We failed to acknowledge the people around us.
We failed to smile to the people next to us.
And sometimes we get so fearful of the world that we lock ourselves up in both the physical and emotional space.
We become so much of an individual that at times we forget that this world is made up of communities.
That everyone is interconnected in this fragile world.
Love is the bridge to connect everyone.
We may not understand the different languages.
But we can definitely understand/ feel love from one another.
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Ah now i am really looking forward to reading the book.
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