Life = New Year party

Life may not be the New Year party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

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Question: Why can't I do the things I want to do? There's so much I know I'm capable of that I never actually do. Why is that? 

Answer:The trick is to realize that you're always doing what YOU want to do... ALWAYS. Nobody's making you do anything. Once you get that, you see that you're free and that life is really just a series of choices. Nothing happens to you. You choose.

Does it hurt?

do you want me to take the pain away?
but then you would not understand ....that i ache for you.
That you need to die ...
so that i may live in you.
i died for you, will you die for me too?

michizure.

Die.

Die.


"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."


When I read that quote from Shakespeare in high school, I thought it was a gangsta creed. In the thuglife, you tried to faithfully live it. Swear by it. Do not take shit from anybody…even if it meant death… Death before dishonor.


Bullshit.


I try not to talk about God in this blog. Honestly because I know not everybody who reads it is Christian, much less Catholic. But this message is universal.


We must die in order to live. Live a better life. Let the old you die. So a new you lives.


It is tough. We mourn the death of our egos. We mourn the death of that persona we have taken in as our own. But sooner or later, we have to commit to not who we really are but what we could be. Reconciling the two personas is useless. The persona that we project is tainted. The persona that we aspire to be is pure.


As a Catholic, I know Christ died on the cross for us to save us. I have heard that ALL my life. Maybe what Christ really wanted was for me to DIE with Him. So that He can live in me. I need to let the old me die…so that no longer I but Christ who lives in me. I have to put the old me to rest.


Dying is painful. At least the kind of dying I am talking about. When people talk about a "fate worse than death" I get it now. I am not talking about suicide. Suicide is the easy way out. A permanent solution to a temporary problem. Live life through, even when it's tough and painful. There is honor in that.


But to kill the old you so that Christ can live in you: that is a call to greatness.


Think about it. Every prophet, every one that God has called to greatness started out flawed. That should give me  us hope for fake asses sinners like us. 


Everything is upside down in the kingdom of God. People who got the call were dumb asses simpletons, murderers, adulterers, corrupt; yet somehow, they managed to kill their old self to become vessels of good. They had to be emptied of everything…every selfishness, every poison from pride, every foolish thing they held on to, every vain ambition, … so that the Spirit can reside in them. No half and half. Partly empty was a formula for mediocrity. EMPTY. Nothing left. Only then could they have been filled. And they were filled. Filled to the brim.


It kind of reminds me of the Kid's Story from the Animatrix. Where you had to die to see the real world.


Oh yeah, did I tell you it was going to be painful? That there is suffering involved? You bet your ass it's gonna hurt. It is going to be uncomfortable. It is going to hurt like nothing you've ever known.


Things that give you pleasure? Gone. Fame? Gone.  Material possessions? Gone. Everything that tainted the old you needs to extricated from your being. Like deep cuts, incisions to take away the cancer. And to take it all out. You WILL die. Pray that death comes early.


But what if the process takes longer?


How do you deal with the suffering and pain..and eventual death?


Remember, Christ died for us…shouldn't we die for Him to be reborn in us?

You're scared aren't you? Chicken!  Wuz.

 

Just Do it! Do it! Do it!


Grant me a peaceful death O Lord. That's my prayer.


I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me. Galatians, Chapter 2, Verse 20

Love!...choice...Marriage.

A student asks a teacher, “What is love?” The teacher said, “In order to answer your question, go to the padi field and choose the biggest padi and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.” The student went to the field, went through first row, saw one big padi, but he wonders… maybe there is a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one… but maybe there is a even bigger one waiting for him. Later, when he finished more than half of the padi field, he starts to realize that the padi is not as big as the previous one he saw, and he knows he has missed the biggest one, and regrets. So, he ended up going back to the teacher with an empty hand. The teacher told him, “…this is love… you keep looking for a better one, but when it’s too late, you realise you have already missed the person….”

“What is marriage then?” the student asked. The teacher said, “in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick. “The student went to the corn field, and this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake; when he reaches the middle of the field, he picks one medium corn that he feels satisfied with, and goes back to the teacher. The teacher told him, “this time when you were looking for a corn…. you look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get…. and this is marriage"

Planning ahead.

Play this at my cremation.

[My pain?]

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Are you experienced?

Smart people learn from their mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others.

Youth is wasted on the young, don't you think? I have often said that if I knew what I know know... my youth would have been 100x more fulfilling. I would have had 100% of the fun without the drama and the pain. Then maybe, I would have had an even more fulfulling adult life.

I wish when I was growing up, more people took me aside to "coach" me about things that the future might bring. Just so I have a better perspective of what lies ahead.

No not someone who will scold me and tell me NOT to do things.. but someone who would have said... "I know how this will end, I have been there before...so you better be careful with your next move so you do not fall into the same traps I did."

It is my life goal to impart whatever "knowledge" i have on the young and make their lives just a little bit better.
Live, learn and pray...that the learning part comes first. I think I wrote that in my yearbook quote many years ago. Still true today.

Do you ever feel...

....that you should be doing more?

Saturdays are especially bad. It seems to fly by. Saturdays are REALLY my only day off. Sundays do not even count as a day off because I have so much to do... not complaining.. I like my Sundays...
I just feel there are not enough hours on Saturdays...
Blink and it's Monday. I don't like Mondays.

1000 cranes.

An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the tortoise), and is said to live for a thousand years. In Asia, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true.

Make me 1000 cranes.

Love.

Love is a choice not an emotion.
One does not FALL in Love.
Love is not a hole you FALL into. It's not like you are walking and then BAM! you FALL. You CONSCIOUSLY jump into it. You commit to it. Don't say you didn't have a choice.
Say it.. I LOVE YOU BECAUSE I CHoOSE TO.
you love me because you choose to.
I am You are   not going to be HOT or nice or sweet ALL the time. You  i know that... you know that. but it's cool. Because I have decided... I WILL LOVE YOU no matter what.
Love is a choice not an emotion.

Talent, fame and conceit

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”  -John Wooden