Love

That Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) should have been abolished long time ago, not only has it become the training ground for future corrupt leaders it has been abused by our leaders who should have trained our youth on how to be better leaders. Training the youth for leadership are better done in schools where they can be guided properly and not in Baranggays. You guys are just wasting our taxes. So young and yet so corrupt.

We become more tolerant on our parents when we realize they're not gona live forever... same thing with our relationships, when someone promises us their forever it should not be the reason to be comfortable. We must strive and do our best to make sure that our partner doesn't feel neglected. We can't always provide the same assurance everytime but we must never cease to try our best.

Don't look for similarities when you go into a relationship. Having something in common is temporary, even though you don't have the same interest as long as you are willing to adapt on your partner's interest then you're good. Differences is what makes relationship interesting. What's important is you have mutual respect for each others work and interests eventually as you grow old together you will learn to do things together and share life in the same manner.

25th of September

I would never forget this day... The day when I get to look in to your eyes and say I love you.

Comfort is not your friend, it is not a place to stay but a state of which a man should not linger in. Challenges in life is what makes us strong it is the decisions we struggle to make every day that makes life meaningful and it is the risks that we take that brings fullfilment to the journey. We are in a pursuit of happiness but it is those risks that make it worth having. Fear must not reside in our heart. Pain is temporary, it may last a day, a month or even a year but eventually it will subside. But if we'll never take a risk, if we'll never take that one small step towards the future, to risk failure for success to risk loneliness for happiness or to risk pain for love then that fear will only break our heart.

The older I get the more I value loyalty than honesty.

Freedom Inside of a Relationship

Freedom inside of a relationship does not imply a lack of concern and commitment for our partner. Rather, because we are free, we are free to choose to enter and remain into a caring relationship. Caring and commitment are neither burdens nor prison when they are freely chosen. Because we are not trapped, feeling that the people on whom we depend will drift out of our grasp, we do not have to try to maintain an iron grip on others. Our relationship with someone are not as prisoners on a chain but as dancers in a most delightful dance.

Emotions

Sadness is okey, getting disappointed is alright, being lonely isn't that bad. These emotions are essential in having a healthy spirit. It makes the experience of life more meaningful and interesting for it provides perspective of the journey of the human spirit.

Another Kind of Love

There's another kind of love, a love for one's self for it is only when we love ourselves that we can give love to someone else. It is only when we value what we have and our worth that we can learn to value the worth of others and respect them. Love is not about finding someone who would make you complete but being with someone to whom you can share your completeness.

I wonder how a person who was a complete stranger suddenly would mean the world to me. I knew nothing about his past and he has no idea what I've been through, both of us had been happy in the past and had suffered pain, both got involved with someone and yet now sharing our experiences and planning our future together. If God is love then God is within me, for I never love another person the way I love him now. I wonder how many had fallen in loved with his smile, at how beautiful he looks when he wakes up in the morning, his innocent soul that reflects in his eyes, at how he loves someone more than he wanted to be loved because it is never about himself, at how he makes every effort to make someone else happy for that brings him happiness too. Do they ever notice that. Well i did and i feel lucky to have fallen in love with with a man whose passion for love is an equal measure to my own. To have ever looked at him and sees him for what he's worth. His name is Jan.

You and me, just us two. Courtesy of Jan Gonzales

Dear Jan,

The people I've met were not equal to you and I doubt whether those I have desired were your equal. I try sometimes to imagine your face when you are old, and it seems to me that I shall love you as much, perhaps more.

Gabriel

Irony

The ironic fact is that there is more than enough food, water, fuel, and so on to satisfy the actual needs of everyone on the planet. But there is not enough to satisfy everyone's greed. Even if it were physically possible for you to consume all the food, water, fuel in the world, you would still not be satisfied, for "material food" cannot satisfy spiritual craving.

I'm in love with someone who's still trapped in the closet.

Our expectations should be tantamount to the effort we exert. We can't expect something we ourselves are not willing to provide.

We're too busy looking from the lense and taking pictures of the most important events in our lives that we missed the real thing. Pictures are nothing, compared to the actual view.

Someone

If I am to wish what I really want
I would perhaps wish but I know I can't
For I would wish for someone to come in my life
Someone who will always be by my side.

Is it really possible to have someone to share
Someone who would stay and always care
Maybe someday he would eventually appear
To claim my heart and take away my fear.


Gabriel

My Hope

I had given a lot of thought what I liked about you
I did it today and yesterday too
I hope in the future whether good or bad
I promise I'll try not to make you sad.

I really do love you for everything that you are
I hope if we have a relationship it would really go far
One day you'll know how much I really care
I want to spend my life with you so would you let me share.


Gabriel

Teamwork

If you are going to start helping people, you're going to have to start doing the following things. First, you've got to stop imposing yourself on others, and your value systems upon them, you've got to be real and you've got to learn to listen. There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. I'm determined that one of these days I'm going to free myself of all responsibility and study human vibrations because I'm sure they exist even as much as the vibrations that are sending this sound to you. When we find that secret, we may find some means of communication that is a little more adequate than words. I think that listening is tremendously important, and yet we abhor and are frightened of silence. The most beautiful things could go on if we were silent.  You've got to be real. Don't be a phony. Come on as yourself. The hardest thing in the world is to be someone you're not. As you get closer and closer and closer to what you are, be that and come on all the time that way. You'll find it's an easy way to live. The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. Find who you are and come on as you are. Then you can live simply. You won't be playing games any more. Just clear them all away and say, "Here's me and take me for what I am with all my frailties, all my stupidity and if you can't, leave me alone". Another thing, don't order anyone to do anything. You're not God. You don't know what is in someone else's head. You can guide but you can't order. And try to communicate, try to understand. Finally remember that you are a team. You're dealings with people are only going to be as successful as you are together. You're going to want to plan together what you're going to do because there are greater resources and strength in many than there are in one.

Love

Saying I love you to someone is probably the greatest thing a person can say and do in his life provided we remain true to the meaning of the word love. When it comes to romantic love there is always a risk of saying it, when the two person already in love with each other finally say those three words the answer can be very fulfilling. To be loved back by the object of your affection is rapture. But there are those who like most of us do love someone who's not yet in love with us. So we wait and wonder when will the time come. And most often than not we remain silent about how we feel because we're afraid of getting hurt, afraid of not hearing what we want to hear. So we drown on our own sorrow of not being able to experience a loving relationship. And there are those who choose to remain true to what the real meaning of loving someone, unafraid of getting hurt, unafraid of falling first. Because true love waits and understand. The person who truly loves is never selfish, he thinks of his love before himself, he can take pain in silence and persevere in the distance just so he can hold the person he love lightly. I myself experienced these kinds of love. I experienced being loved back, and love someone back. And loving without being love in return. But I also experienced not loving someone at all, yes I may have avoided pain temporarily but I can't survive not loving... The key is to love someone who is worthy of that love.

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"Gates of hell"

Perhaps it could be a title of a new book. Dan Brown's description of Manila as the "gates of hell" received different reactions from overly sensitive Filipinos. Apparently they got offended, but why be too sensitive about it? Is it a fact that in whole Metro Manila traffic is a way of life already, we have begars on the streets, garbage is almost everywhere, flood, sidewalk vendors, criminals, underage prostitutes are rampant. Now if that is not hell on earth then i don't know what hell is. But regardless of how we view our country it doesn't mean we love it less. It is our home and we should strive to improve it. It is not as if we're not guilty of the same sin. Overly reacting to such a small thing seems to be our way of living already.

Giving up

When someone give up or broke a promise we must never condemn them. It doesn't make them a bad person, for each one of us experience life differently. When someone acknowledge his limitation it is important to act on it. Having limitations makes us human and in the end acting on it is what makes us wise.

Wondering

We often wonder how a person can survive with all this problems going on the world right now. You look at your own life and how vulnerable you must feel considering how powerless you are and yet you wonder how can someone make a difference or is it even possible to save the world without being a superhero. I am probably the most ordinary person you will see on this planet. A regular guy roaming around the city, unknown and perfectly hidden from the eyes of everyone. I do ask myself if being me would make a difference or would my existence do matter. Maybe in my small way I could. Perhaps if every individual would contribute to society no matter how small it may be it would eventually save someone. Collectively as a nation or even as a race perhaps we might save each other and how magnificent would that be.

Never Waste A Moment

Each day is a new beginning and every beginning is a new chance to make your life better. Never waste a moment, laugh and cry, love and reach out to someone, talk to strangers, hug a friend, say I love you. Don't wait for another time because there may never be a time other than today. Life is beautiful.

Equal Rights

Gay marriage is not about a man getting married to a man or a woman getting married to a woman. It is not about religion or culture nor being a conservative or liberal. It is about equal rights, quaranteed by the constitution, profess by men and given by God. We do not aspire to be special we just want to be treated equal. If I am wrong then let the Lord be my judge.

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