I didn’t mean to make a Froodee post today but I just couldn’t resist the Fatal Attraction trailer. I think it speaks to all the women with loose screws and Borderline Personality Disorder tendencies, don’t you think? [Read more…]
Exhausted!
I had never been more exhausted in my entire life. I had always thought that I would thrive under severe stress, but when the stressor includes lack, anxieties about the future, much too many disappointing encounters or protracted plans, and the notion that you have just way too many backlogs, anyone going through all the things I am going through would normally crumble. And I guess, for once, I am finally normal. Because I crumbled.
I was not used to having a “day” job. Neither was I used to needing to fragment my days into chunks/blocks of time just so I could get things done. Neither are my feet used to doing all that walking, after so many months. Thus, my pretty and soft feet are now breeding calluses, after needing to walk all those miles just to be able to gather the requirements for compliance for my new “day” job.
So after a week of erratic sleep, mishandled commitments and so much more, I finally went ballistic last night. Well all the stress of working in a highly structured environment such as a call center just got to me, and I finally crumbled. But not before two tumblers worth of Nescafé coffee sent me over the edge. [Read more…]
Enough.
There are things in life that are more important than making a buck. There is a forwarded email that I’ve come across that said that when one is on his deathbed, he or she does not want to ask for more time at work; rather, most people would like to ask for more time… With family, friends and loved ones.
This goes to show that man indeed is a social animal and that there is a need for humans to just connect.
I am at the point in my life that while I would like to be more productive, to earn more, to buy that new MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, some other gadget salivation of mine, or that condo in an upscale development being built in a posh district in the area I live in, it actually boils down to one thing. Even if I may want to buy all that, at the end of the day, I do not want to push for more articles written or more sales, or more generativity.. I actually want to have more time to relate with the people I love. [Read more…]
Real Love in the Midst of Loss
This had been an emotional January for me. I had broken up with my fiance just the other week, and to be honest, I didn’t really feel much pain. Just intermittent jabs of missing him. And one of those moments passed me just a few eternities ago.
Yes, like any other woman who bleeds when the love of her life is taken from her, I bled too. But on the days when I didn’t feel the pain, the loss and the longing so much, I realized that I didn’t get to feel all that because… I had the ultimate source of Love.
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Of Mentors, Being Mentored and Being a Mentor Part 1: Life Mentors
In this world, it is best to learn from others. Even in Proverbs, this had been advocated extensively by King Solomon. It is wisdom to learn directly through experience, but it is greater wisdom to learn from advice or from others’ experience.
I am about to write a two-part series on learning from others. One would cover one’s personal life, and the other would cover career/vocation.
Today, I will talk about learning from others (being mentored), and mentoring others, in the context of personal life.
Being mentored about life is something we all long for. That is why children get fixated on teachers and adapt heroes and role models, aside from relying on their parents for their initial decisions. When I was younger, I was taunted for being the “teacher’s pet” because I liked hanging around them, simply because I wanted to learn more. [Read more…]