Daily Intention

Every person has its own different philosophies in life. It depends upon how the person sees life as it is and how the person perceives the essence of life. Philosophies of different people may be similar but never be exactly the same. Life experiences assemble and may eventually change our philosophies as days go by. Although we don’t worry much about our own philosophies, surely we have ideas about coming across the value and fulfillment in life. My philosophies stand as a basis in fully absorbing life and its reality.

Until this very moment, I don’t know the answer to a particular question that crossed my mind before – “What am I here for?” I have no idea before of what to answer. Everything that overlies my mind was mere confusions. It seems like all I care about is school, parties and leisure time. I have this philosophy of living one day at a time and not maximizing things.

I have listed certainties I live by and nothing in this world can change these except experience.

1. If you undergo the progression of life, be prepared. Be amused of what life can bring for it won’t let you down. They say that the sad thing about growing up is forgetting our childlike mind – set. We tend to focus on serious matters and fail to remember our manner of being a child. It is good to be childish sometimes.
2. If it's broke, fix it. This means that, if you mess up, admit it, apologize, try to make amends, and don't ever do that again.
3. Listen to whatever people may tell you. Everything starts in small things, so pay attention to every details of what life is telling you. To me, paying attention is the most important act of love.
4. We don’t make other people’s choices, and they don’t too for us. We can’t just dictate what other people will do with their lives as well as they cannot dictate what we will do with our own lives.
5. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. It is tested and proven that being hopeful will lead to better solutions to problems and being cynical does not.
6. It’s better to be hated for what you are rather than to be loved for what your not. I’ve never lived in pretensions and I hate it. It’s like you’re lying to your own self.
7. You will never achieve what you never begin. Unless you have started making your goal in your life, you’ll never attain or accomplish it but be unsuccessful.
8. Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Nothing comes to you liberally unless you get it. So, you don’t just lie there and wait for the apple to fall from that tree. You have to stand up and get it for yourself. The sweetest success comes from bitter struggles.
9. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. I strongly believe that a man cannot proceed to the next level unless he takes the risk.
10. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Wouldn’t it be sweeter if you succeed with your own adversity than succeed with the adversity of others?
11. Don't take life too seriously; no one gets out alive, anyways. I take life as a serious matter but not too serious. And I’ve always believed that our bottom line is death. It’s our only limit.
12. You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. No one can restrict me from doing what I want and being who I want to be. It’s something I’m free of and to hell they care.
13. Don’t let the cups drive you, enjoy the coffee instead. I have read a story about the cup and the coffee. It says that the coffee is your Life, and then, the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of life doesn’t change. Sometimes by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it. So, we must enjoy every drop of the coffee though we drink it from the cup.
14. Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. You just have to shake it off and take a step up. Each of your troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping and never giving up.
15. Life is change. Growth is optional. Change is constant but then as we change, people doesn’t necessarily grow. It’s in the person if he or she chooses to be matured or not.
16. Past is past and you’ve got nothing to do about it. It’s in the past already and we all know we can’t change a single thing about it. So it’s best to watch our actions earlier for us not to regret the things we do.
17. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. There’s no such thing as “suffering forever”. God hears us anyway and He doesn’t want us to suffer forever. He just wants us to work on the overcoming part.


But what I value most is trust, honesty and respect. These three are significant in everyone’s life, as well as mine. I find it hard now to trust somebody, based on my experiences. It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. But still, we need to trust people who are creditable of. Truth fears no questions and lies will eventually be discovered. It’s just a matter of telling the truth, even if you have to make it up. Respect is not imposed, but gained. It does not need any commands and it’s not an obligation of a person. A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. If we lose this, that’s how we finally die.
The last one would be smile. It’s a curve that sets everything straight and a size that fits all. It confuses approaching frown and an inexpensive way of brightening up someone’s day. People may barely see me smile, but I do smile. And it’s a good therapeutic way of me covering up my intimate predicament.
My philosophies may change as I grow old, but still, the “sej” will be the same “sej” for the years to come.

Every person has its own different philosophies in life. It depends upon how the person sees life as it is and how the person perceives the essence of life. Philosophies of different people may be sim... Read All