Drowning in my own sadness...

You've got to get yourself together...♪
You've got stuck in a moment...♪ 

And now you can't get out of it...♫

Letting go...

Try this exercise. Get something. Anything you can hold or grip. It can be as soft as a handkerchief, or as hard as a brick. Anything rough and dry like a rock from your yard on a sunny day, or slippery and wet like a bar of soap from your bathroom after a shower. Grip it hard. Grip it hard for a long time. Very hard. As hard as you can, as if you cannot let go because your life depends on it.

Now, odds are either your fingers will get fatigued and your hand will loosen its grip (and of course, you'll experience pain if you grip it too hard), or the thing you are holding will slip from your hand (or disintegrate from the force of your grip, especially if it's something like eggs or fruit).

The moral lesson of this is, don't hold on too much to objects or people, especially when it's something temporary like organizational positions in college (or material trends or fads), or someone fleeting like a crush or idol. Don't hold on to things that might be too hard to handle. Things change. So do people. If you don't let go, you'll only weigh yourself down or even hurt yourself. When circumstances for the worse arrive, especially regarding people, you'll not only set yourself back, but also the other person involved.

Too much attachment is never a good thing, especially in my case. Recently though, I have learned to let go of some people and things that I've grown over-attached with. I have to, so that I would no longer have any such delusions of over-familiarity. I must, because if I keep up with being too attached, I'll only suffer emotionally, considering that I admit that I am not an emotionally-stable person due to some traumatic experiences in the past.

Good luck, godspeed, God bless!

Compare and Contrast

ANTICIPATIONS...

Can't wait for these to come out and/or happen

in film...

Dragons, goblins, giant spiders and other nasties...
I'll be keeping my eye out for Beorn the Bear-Guy.

...video games...

Ideology systems, eh? Order or Freedom would be my preference...

The revamped Cultural Victory and Trade Systems still puzzle me, though.

About the New Civs, I can't wait to try playing as the Indonesians under Gajah Mada

Fairy-type, eh? Intriguing.

(Though I still do not get it on how prancing, delicate pixies
can beat the crap out of kick-ass dragons...)

...and I also anticipate that moment of glory at the end of this final year of my undergraduate/college/tertiary education, after all the effort...

"Hindi tayo tumatambay lang para gumradweyt.
At, hindi tayo gumradweyt lamang para tumambay. Hinde!
Kung ayaw man natin mag-apply agad ng trabaho,
ang tawag lamang dito AY PAHINGA!"

...and kon may tiyempo man gid after graduation...

I hope I can finally find "her", whoever she may be... ♥

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Here's to a new academic year! And the first half of my last one. Good luck, godspeed, God bless!

Para sa kilala ko...

Kay daw ginapasan niya gid ang kalibutan...



I know, I call you "Nang" most of the time. However, being the older one, I can only tell you with whatever wisdom I have, to LIGHTEN UP. Daw kabug-at gid daan. Matters of the heart are not the only thing that keeps society, or the world, or human civilization running, you know.

Naagyan ko man 'na. Kag nalampasan ko man. Kag kabalo ko nga kaya mo man. Good luck, godspeed, God bless!

Para sa pagbabago, sana manalo...

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(I should have registered as a voter for the incoming elections. Dang it! :( )

Labor Day post

"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose, but your chains!"

 -- Karl Marx

"All of these things the worker has done

From tilling the fields to carrying the gun

We've been yoked to the plough since time first began

And always expected to carry the can"

 -- "Workers' Song", performed by Irish folksinger Dick Gaughan