On Contentment

There are two ways to be contented: one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like

author: Unknown

hays. Just Right! Keeping myself busy. Forcing myself to. heh.

SUMMARYZING LIFE

In one simple story, here's how you should manage your time and your life:

When things in your life seem almost too much too
handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough,
remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had
some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very
large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill
it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the
jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and
poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the
golf balls. He then asked the students again if the
jar was full they agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured
it into the jar . Of course, the sand filled up
everything else. He asked once more if the jar was
full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from
under the table and poured the entire contents into
the jar, effectively filling the empty space between
the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
"I want you to recognize that this jar represents
your life. The golf balls are the important things-
your God, family, your children, your health, your
friends, and your favorite passions--things that if
everything else was lost and only they remained your
life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your
job, your house, and your car.

Learn From This Story

This is probably the oldest forwarded e-mail I still keep on my Inbox. Let me share you this very interesting story you will definitely learn from.

Well, just read on:

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the
professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,
some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the
coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If
you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the
best for yourselves that is the source of your problems and stress." What
all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went
for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life
is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality
of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the
coffee God has provided."

So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.

A Piece of Information

**Don’t know where I got this presentation. I just have a copy of it in my document folder**hehehe

What Now?

Two more days and its 3 months already! And 3 months felt just like yesterday when I have exchange laxly the perpetual “I do” in front of honorable judge wearing my classic ponytail and slippers. My partner wore the same yet no one really cares as long as it’s not something I or we will regret or feel ashamed of in the end. I was married 3 days before I turned 24 so officially, I was married at the “early” age of 23. Why? I just like it this way. Age doesn’t really matter for me as long as I feel I am ready enough to face all the consequences. I would be hypocrite to say that it doesn’t worry me a bit, worries about certain issues of the future such as financial and emotional stability. But as long as I keep my life simple and contented the way I live it as yet and the way I spend my life on daily basis and not being too anxious for the future, I know I have done the right decision. So,there.

Weee…

You Are 62% Ready for Marriage

You are almost ready for marriage, and you could be ready to be engaged. You're still figuring out the details of your ideal relationship!

Are You Ready for Marriage?

Well, it’s too late for this test now. Heh! I will just compensate the remaining 38% by just being contented. Right?

Should I Compliment Myself With this?

You Are Okay With Money

You're about average with money, which means you probably don't have a lot of it. Your instincts tell you to stay out of debt and spend wisely... But you don't always listen to your instincts! With a little more effort, you could have a nice little nest egg. You just have to control your spending.

Are You Good With Money?

I still need to improve and stop burning holes in my wallet. ASAP!

Preach Yourself This.

Sand and Stone

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:

"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:

"Today my best friend saved my life."

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

“Learn To Write Your Hurts In The Sand, And To Carve Your Benefits In Stone”

A story that is quite applicable to what I should have done before I have uttered those hurtful words tactlessly.

April Fool's

I’m sorry we came too early in the middle of your way.

I may not remember if I really have the intention from the very beginning to tag along with you or purely just an “accident” that we were both forced to face. Maybe yes, I wanted this but not this soon. I may have considered this as a vision but surely, not in the top of my A-List priority.

I know you feel you are being deprived of things that supposedly will make you happier instead of restraining yourself from doing because you already have a responsibility or in a much heavier term – obligation – up your shoulders.

I have come to accept this circumstance. I have put my defenses down just to be contented with what the fate had course upon me. I have set my mind that this is not a mistake, but something I should be grateful no matter what. But things change.

In the short span of months I already feel like I’m a loser. I wanted to fight and to hold still but to no avail, change is nowhere. The shitty insulted feeling I have in me now makes me want to move on and face all of this by myself. You often ask what’s on my mind or what I am thinking in that moment, truthfully, I am thinking to stand on my own and live alone.

There are always thoughts coming that I don’t need you anymore but I know you will just laugh pointing at my actions of demanding too much from you. But hell, not! You are not making me feel that I am not in the position, even in consolation, of demanding more of your attention or demanding less of your rudeness, tantrums and hate.

I really don’t feel I’m overreacting or too emotional for that matter. I want you to understand that I have faced this situation too early I was not even prepared or ready about it. Please don’t just assume that this entire situation is okay with me or that I don’t have a problem with this. You never asked me, you just concluded that what I am about to get myself into is the place I really wanted to go.

But please don’t think that I don’t like what had happened to me. To tell you the truth, the moment I have seen and confirmed it, the very first reaction I made was to smile sincerely. I was grateful and felt the excitement over clouding through my feelings. The same excitement, which I hope you will also feel but you failed to show or that I missed to see in your action and hear in your words.

Although I don’t imply that you are not a good partner but I really don’t get where it lacks understanding or consideration.

I am just afraid, I hope you will recognize the fears and worries I keep inside me before I go to sleep and right after I woke up. See, it is not just about me that I worry. Can’t you understand the phase I am going through? This situation caught me off-guard unprepared. It had left me no choice or enough time to get myself composed and secured.

I am not open to any resolution or compromise because I send this point down with my self-esteem. I won’t admit that what I am about to do if things don’t go my way is just a case of too much paranoia that clouds against good judgment and fair decision.