Life’s Season 30 premier
As I reach my 29th season finale, here are 30 lessons I learned before my Life’s season 30 premier:
1. Life is unpredictable. You can’t always trust that your plans would work. So learn to be spontaneous.
2. Give yourself a chance to grow. Go out of your comfort zone. When an opportunity knocks, open your door, no matter how scary, or how hard it is to step out of the door. Pain and hardships are what would make the greatest plot twist.
3. In every aspect of your life, you would meet 2 kinds of person. 1. The person who carries a lesson for you to learn and 2. The person who’ll gain a lesson from you. These people might stay or not.
4. “If’s” are obstacles against your possible triumphs.
5. Individual differences. Each person is different in many ways. We could all be looking at the same sight but we have different perceptions. We might experience the same pain, but we have different level of tolerance. We may be carrying the same burdens but we all have different strengths.
6. We can grow old together, but not all can mature at the same time.
7. Compartmentalization is an important key for a rationalized decisions.
8. Crying won’t solve a problem, but it helps reduce the heavy feelings.
9. We can’t balance the different aspects of our life, there are some that needs more time or attention, what we should learn is HARMONY among them.
10. SOMETIMES, selfishness is self-love. We should learn when to be selfless and when to be selfish.
11. Gratitude. Appreciate things you have and people in your life.
12. Live in the present. It’s good to look back but don’t delve in the past. Planning a future is okay but don’t use all your energy thinking about the future for you might miss how awesome the present is.
13. Trust yourself, your values and beliefs that have guide your along the way. Don’t lose them just to seek other’s approval.
14. Trust your instincts. It would save you from loosing more important things in life.
15. We can’t give what we don’t have. So always save something for yourself.
16. Don’t just be a consumer, be a responsible one. Prioritize the quality over quantity, the needs over wants, avoid buying impulsively.
17. Asking for help is not a weakness. Being vulnerable is a strength.
18. Do not compare your life with others, it would rob you with real happiness.
19. Be kind and compassionate. We’ll never know what others are going through, the least we can do for them is to be kind and compassionate.
20. There are people who’s aura doesn’t match yours, but it does not give you the right to hurt them.
21. Control your social media engagements. Don’t let it be one’s access point to your personal life.
22. Low maintenance friendship is something we should always treasure. They are home. You don’t always have to talk to them or frequently hang with them but when you do, it’s beyond the best.
23. Do not force yourself to be okay when you’re not, it would only make you feel worst.
24. Allow yourself to make mistakes. They are opportunity for growth.
25. Learn to forgive. Forgiveness is not just for people who hurt you, but for yourself to attain peace.
26. Some unsaid feelings are better left unsaid.
27. All of our choices and actions have consequences. You just have to learn which one is worth the consequence is.
28. Our parents are not here forever. Thank them, cherish them, appreciate their sacrifices, show your love to them before it’s too late.
29. Death is part of Life.
30. Prayer is powerful, it’s a weapon, a refuge, a home. It is something that makes you feel safe, its calm, its LOVE>
Family Lunch
The Academic Health break in our Univ gave me an opportunity to go out with the fam. We rarely eat outside since work and errands. Our schedule won’t match. Until we had a break and bro’s leave was approved. So we went to Bolinao to try Sungayan Grill, a floating restaurant that serves seafood and other sumptuous food. We availed river cruise while eating. The view, the air, and the food, we are almost complete, ate Carmi was not there since she’s working overseas. Everyone enjoyed the cruise except the part when we run out of rice in while we’re in the middle of the the cruise 😂😂😂, we are all willing to cut the cruise so we could come back and order more rice, but then the boatman whos pulling our floating kubo didn’t hear us. So we fiished the cruise then immediately ordered more rice and additional viand when we arrived at the mother restaurant. Everyone’s hungry though we all had fun.
By the way, we also bumped into the priest who was the former spiritual director of a religious organization where mama is a member of.
See some snap pics below.
Academic health break
The institution I am working for was the host for SCUAA region 1 where rigorous preparation, organization, facilitation and implementation took place, not to mention other events including last campus tour of the university president. And since it has been a very busy month, employees and students are shouting for Academic health break, gladly, University officials heard our cry, so before the closing program of SCUAA region 1 2022, memorandum regarding academic health break was released. Employees and students were delightful, including me of course. The announcement of academic break motivates me to put a check on one of my mom’s checklist, that is t eat in a known floating restaurant in our province which is a more than 2hr drive from home. Told the sibs about my plan and they agreed. So happy that mother is happy and satisfied. (will post picture later.)
I facilitated a moving system quiz to my students. I encountered this system back in college specifically in my lab subjects. Since the program I am handling has no laboratory subject in their curriculum, I thought it would be a good experience for them if I integrate this kind of assessment and I guess it’s good since it helped to encourage them to think harder. Here are some pros and cons I observed.
Pros
1. No cheating has been observed since they are time pressured. Imagine that 1 minute for five questions. 😂😂
2. Students were encouraged to think since they realized they can only rely on their self.
3. After the quiz, they would go back to their notes and rationalize their answers.
4. Students are observed to be more attentive in our class.
5. They took all their quizzes and activities seriously. They are more motivated than before.
Cons
1. Students were pressured.
2. More than half of each class failed.
She’s diversed. She tries to keep herself together in the middle chaos. Most people see her at the beginnig and end, few people witnessed her in-betweens. A lot of misconceptions about her does not bother her. She just appreciate her peace. She respects her own personal space, a space only few could enter. She’s quiet, she’s happy, she’s comfortable with few. She’s not perfect and she’s not trying to be. She is herself. Trying to keep up, trying to hold still.
The wound caused by my fathers death is so deep that I can’t sometimes be sympathetic to someone who also lost a family member anymore. And I am worried. I need to fix this. I feel like I am becoming a cold human.
She’s become the soul
When you get lost, you have a choice to find yourself or be the best new version of yourself. When your feet brought you to unfamiliar place, you have to choose, to find your way back to where you are or keep moving forward and discover what is hidden. When you found yourself, have to choose, to find yourself or to to keep pretending. When the world seems so hard on you, stand firm, chin up, you wear your whole universe with you, you own that soul, so strong.
