Bato-bato sa Langit...

"Reap what you sow."

I really find it funny when people expect more out of mediocrity.  How can one demand a high performance rating if all you did at work was attend meetings where you just sat in or went on field and got yourself a whole lot of new friends in Facebook?   How stupid can you get?  But then---stupid is what stupid does.  Tsk.  Tsk.  Tsk.     

This goes the same when it comes to fatherhood.  How can you expect your children to love you when you did not give any?  How can you expect them to care for you when you just let them be on their own?  Your semen contribution does not give you that right.  "People forget what you say, they forget what you did, but they never forget how you made them feel."  The amount of quality time that you give your children is something that they will treasure forever.  The gall on the father who asks for love and care when he does not know how to give neither of both!

Bato-bato sa langit ang tamaan SAPUL!  

Nuff said.

Remembering John Lennon

If John Lennon was not gunned down that faithful day in December 8, 1980, he would have been 70 years old today, October 9.

What impact in the music industry would he have contributed if he had lived to see this day I can only surmise; but definitely, the world missed out on a lot of LOVE related songs.

Although you really can’t take the rock and roll in John’s music he has metamorphosed to a hippie activist during his solo career and wrote songs promoting peace, love and civil rights.

His anti-war advocacy created songs like “Imagine”, “Give Peace a Chance”, and “Happy Christmas (War is Over)”. But like in many an artist’s creativity, John’s overwhelming love for his family spurred a lot of beautiful love songs. How did John view love? Well, he actually wrote it down in a song aptly titled “Love”.

Happy Birthday John!

“Love”by John Lennon

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.

Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.

Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.

Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.

20 Years Ago Today

Some 20 years ago today, May 3, my wife and I said YES to be bonded as husbund and wife.

I was 21 and she was 19. It was unplanned. Our wedding was a quickie and was arranged at the spur of the moment. If I remember it correctly, our wedding was planned a total of two days! There were no formal invitation, no entourage. I was thankful to our friends who attended for having the presence of mind to just stand up and provide assistance with regard to the veil, ring, and cord. Not your ideal wedding, I tell you. It was forgetable to say the least but despite the whirlwind nuptial the important ingredient was that my wife and I were truly in love with each other! I do believe that's the bottomline in every marriage. Many have splurged on a very expensive wedding but ended up in court settling assets (not to mention child custody).

Did my love for my wife change after 20 years? YES. I love her more now! I love her so much that I gave her a heavy duty helmet---Kevlar---para kahit mabagok ang ulo e di sya matatauhan!-lol

Happy 20th Anniversary Sweetie! Tsup! Tsup! Slurp! Slurp!

The Message of Christ's Sacrifice

Love. That is the meaning behind Christ's sacrifice on the cross. God loved us so much that He sacrificed His own Son to cleanse us from our sins and give us another chance to be under His glorious shadow.

It is therefore our purpose as Christians to share the same love to our fellow men---not necessarily having ourselves nailed to the cross---but to give the same unquestioning love to those in need of it.

The cliche "love your enemies" is easier said than done. However, we must always remember that love does come with some degree of sacrifice. The greater the sacrifice, the greater the love. Let us also admit that, enemies not withstanding, they do have their share in making us who we are. The very purpose of their existence in our lives mold our character and make us, hopefully, better individuals.

John Lennon's political slogan "make love not war" should be our state of mind everytime we go about our daily business. Conflict is the anti-thesis of love and should be avoided as much as possible. Getting in conflict with other people will make loving a lot more harder to do. As my boss would say, "why make your life miserable?" Again, easier said than done.

No one is perfect. This is the reason why entertaining the thought of marriage needs to be a real soul searching and mind exhausting activity. Why? Well, binding your self to another person UNTIL DEATH DO YOU PART is a real serious contract stipulation!

Saying YES to the invitation of marriage would mean forever loving that person and all the imperfections that go with him/her. A person may be beautiful or handsome now but time does have its ways of turning things around. Sexy now, fat later. Macho now, pot bellied later. Which is why there is another clause in the marriage contract saying FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE. Man! God's attorney was a real stickler for details!

With LOVE there is HAPPINESS. When there's HAPPINESS there is PEACE.