frvn-art

Okay, here is a collection of epiphanies I have had through out the years and only got to write them down now. Again, I can't say I'm first to coin them.

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Few of us are lucky enough to find what we are meant to do, so quit searching for, making up or saving up reasons not to do what you were born to do. The reasons are endless; let your will be infinite.

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If you don't feel like doing it, then just do it until you actually feel like finishing it. Either you train yourself to doing what you do best, or you can let your mind and body get used to doing nothing, and live through life doing nothing.

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You want to be happy now, live for the moment and have everything your heart desires. So do 6 billion of us. You should be old enough to know that you can't have everything you want in life.

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Great moments don't happen and pass us by, we make them happen, and we can make them happen again.

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Quit trying to be special or unique, you're no different from the countless media zombies mindlessly roaming our planet. You are insignificant as an individual; we can be significant as a whole.

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You are never always right. If a person was born in a community with a certain way of life and a certain way of thinking, was raised and grew up in that way of life and that way of thinking, knowing and believing them to be the absolute truth, then people from other lands with different perspectives about life comes along and tells this person, that he is wrong, that his whole life, his whole being is wrong. Then who is right? What and which one is right?

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Never preach or force your beliefs unto others even if you think or believe it to be the aboslute truth, speak of it only when asked by a curious individual or group in a manner that is polite and without contempt towards the others own set of beliefs. And at the same time, remain open to what they have to say and share, for there is wisdom and knowledge to be gained from everyone and everything.

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Being open-minded does not mean adhering to another one's way and abandoning yours. It merely requires respect, acceptance and at times tolerance towards the differences of others from you.

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Art is like looking at the stars. It never gets old.
Only neglected by most, criticized by many, and understood by few.

Wisdom does not always come with age,
but it always grows with keen observation and proper reason.

Elders here in my country always say: "Papunta ka pa lang, pabalik na ako."
Translation: "Your still on your way, I'm already on my way back."

Its kind of their way of saying that they already know what we're going through and they always know more than we do. But life obstacles change in every generation, and every progress in society brings new struggles, whether physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual. Problems just get more complicated and gain more depth through time, and I have seen people, no matter what age, make mistakes even though they knew better, that is, if they knew better.

So my answer to that is this: "Papunta pa nga lang ako, pero nakita ko na kung saan kayo nadapa."
Translation: "I may still be on my way, but I have already seen where you stumbled and fell."



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Something I came up with back in 2007, though I can't say I'm the first to coin this since pretty much everything these days are not entirely original, but inspired from something else.