Little Miss Sam Love.

For the last 2 years I had posted my “Not-So-Grown-Up Christmas Wish List”.  I always asked what I wanted for Christmas, either concretely or abstractly. 

I thank God, little by little I receive some of them and God really made me happy.  

This time of season, what my wish for Christmas (actually, not just Christmas but as I go through my journey) will be that:

★ My parents and my family will always be in great state of health and they will always be safe from harm and other bad things. (that also includes me)

★ I will continue to enjoy and love my job, and the people who are with me at work. I wish they will all be supportive, friendly and will definitely guide me to be better in my craft.

★ More wisdom, courage, positivity and happiness to me and the rest of the people who really are truly dear to me.

 That’s all.

 This 2011, has been a roller coaster ride for me, though it seems that this year can be described as “boring” for my life, ‘coz during the past early months the reel of my life was static, stagnant…dull. 

However, as dull as it may look like, 2011 became as significant as 2010 (where a lot of remarkable victorious moments happened) that’s the truth. A year of splendid learning and realization poked me and woke me up to be better. During those gray encounters I had, I was able to grab the bright reality and know what God really wants me to realize in order for me to make my life more colorful as what He really wants me to have, and what I also want to have.

 Yet, some of the greatest gifts I received not just for Christmas but throughout the year were the experiences I had during the “dull” life I lived this 2011. Those “dull” periods made me love life more.

- Patience… believe me it will take you a long long way.

- There’s no such feeling as “boring”. You may not want to just sit there, do nothing and utter the words “Leche, ang boring naman oh”, you handle your life, now it’s up to you if you want it “boring” or “interesting”, there are countless of verbs created in this world, try recalling them as many as you can so you may know what other actions you can do to make your life worth living.

- Whatever it is happening to your life right now is maybe because of an unexplained reason, but sooner or later you’ll be able to explain  it, and that’s what life is all about “Seek the unknown, explore your horizons, have fun!”

- Feel each moment of your life. You can never take it back once it passed away. It’s like capturing a picture in your camera, once you captured the moment, the rest will just be a plain memory and a collection in your photo album. You can experience the same moments over again, but the feeling of you experiencing those identical moments will always be different from the other.

- First impressions are not the last. It doesn’t determine the kind of person he/she is. Don’t stick on first impressions.

- You can always turn the ordinary into extraordinary. It’s just a matter of outlook and positivity

- Be positive. The hardest part. It’s hard to transform your emotion and your reaction into positive ones in a given negative circumstance. But reality, in every negativity rest a hidden positivity, there’s always a brighter side in that long horizontal line. 

- Love yourself. Love just the way you are. There are more of inner and outer you just yet to be unraveled.

- Don’t waste a great opportunity. They don’t knock on your door everyday. Would you rather close your door and suffer resentment, haunting you of what it might have been if you allowed it to enter at your door step? Or open your door widely, welcome it with open arms and hope it can really turn out well. At the end of the day, it did. But if not, then, there will always yet to come. Wait and be patient it might be a better one.

- When you feel tired and annoyed with your current work, just think of this first: “Is my reason worth quitting this job?” You might be lucky to be in that position already where thousands of people are hungry to take your place.

- All misery, hardship, and sadness ends. Don’t give up. Life doesn’t run in straight lines, it runs in circles. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. 

- Be submissive. Humble yourself. We all start at the bottom. But once we accept the fact that we begin small, and then in no time, we may be bigger. Follow. So we can learn to lead.

- One step at a time. Don’t rush. We might wake up one day, already turning 40 and it’s just sad that we age but we did not enjoy life.

- Don’t lose hope. I didn’t lose hope in loving my profession. It took me 4 years to realize I have the calling.

- Treasure the people who love you. Treasure and love them dearly. We are nothing without them.

- Having few true friends is better than having a large network of pretentious friends. Quality beats Quantity all the time! (I got this from twitter =))

- You  don’t need to change your principles or even your self just to be “in” as long as you don’t hurt others then you’re good. You don’t need the approval from others who you find it hard to get along with. Don’t force yourself. You can never please everybody. If they really want you to be in their circle then, they will make it easy for you to be “in” it, you don’t go  begging for their attention. There are almost 7 billion people in this world, for sure there are people who’ll definitely value and genuinely love you just the way you are.

- It always starts hard. But once you got used to it, you’ll be better than you think. It’s a matter of time to cope up. Again, patience…

- Forgive though it’s really hard to forget. Just forgive. Peace is what it can bring you.

- Do your best. God will do the rest.

- Pray. Pray. Pray. Pray harder everyday. Prayer can move mountains.

- Trust God completely. Everything will fall into place. God has already provided a schedule for our dreams.  Just trust Him. 

I let God control my life… I am sure He’ll lead me to what’s the best for me. God knows best. Let Him carry you. Always be thankful even in the littlest blessing we receive, the moment we open our eyes and see the beaming sun, means life and it’s already a wonderful blessing, God can give more if we trust and love Him. And this Christmas season it’s all about thanking Him.