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TAKE THE PAIN, DO SOMETHING!

When one dislike something of others',
check for something disliked in oneself.

Evaluate,
identify,
accept,
evolve...

Let him, that would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates

AESOP

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

"Please all, and you will please none."

LINK: Aesop @ BrainyQuote
 

GREAT IDEA

"To have a great idea,
have a lot of them."

(Thomas A. Edison)

THINGS WE CAN'T DO WITHOUT

"You know we are on a wrong track altogether.
We must not think of the things we could do with,
but only of the things that we can't do without."

(Three Men In A Boat)

This post was transferred and relocated from Rudipg's Weblog, due to the reorganizing of my blogs.

QUOTES

"I believe there's a hero in all of us,
that keeps us honest,
gives us strength,
makes us noble,
and finally allows us to die with pride,
even though sometimes we have to be steady,
and give up the thing we want the most.
Even our dreams."
- Aunt May Parker

"Take the pain,
do something."
- Rudi Pg

"Lead,
follow,
or get out of the way."
- Laurence J. Peter

STEADY AS A HERO

Hi guys..
I'm really sorry I haven't been around lately
and missing some time with you all.
I've been gone through changes,
learning,
improvement.

Some things are changing,
some other are not.

There's a lesson I just re-learnt
that things are changing in different pace.
Sometimes change has a very slow pace
that at some point it seem unchanging
and become such a bogger.

Perhaps it's not just a lesson about the change itself.
Maybe it's a lesson about my own perspective.
To be patient
and -more importantly- to be steady.

Steady was
-and still is, in some (or maybe -you'd say- many) of my ways-
not.. me.
Moody.. once said to me.
No matter how often they characterised me as
uncertain,
unrelated,
and eventually.. unimportant,
there's always something elusive behind the character of mine.

Too many times I question why I linger as an unsteady person.
Is it my past?
Is it my environment?
Is it inevitable?
What should I do about it?
How should I change?
Should I just dismiss it and carry on trying to do my best?
How can I do my best
when there's an unsolved question that is so basic?
Or..
what?

Perhaps it is environment.

There's just no one that I can really relate to
in matters of background, activity, preference, or chance.
My parents -may they rest in peace-
were ill and passed away
far before I reach the point
where I got the urge to talk deep about myself.
My second family,
my relatives,
my friends,
my ex-girl.
There's just way too many factors
that made us walk our own separate ways.

One of the crucial factor
is time.
Everybody else has achieved that self-definition stage
while I'm still pondering around trying to match my environment.

Then as many time went by
I -unconsciously- built up this self-opinion
that I always around people who never really relate to me.

I got angry
but silently.
I knew who I am.
There's history that made me unworthy,
incommon,
unrelated.
It's why they just wont put up enough effort to relate to me.
But dammit..

I was ruining myself.
Lose alot of my future.
Got really ill for the first time and compromise my health.

That was the down of the very down of me.
That was..
history.

Now
through these couple of years
my future is rebuilding.
Wont be able to reclaim the old-amazing-future
that I've scrapped behind,
but this is a future.

Back to being steady,
I often recall what Aunt May told Peter Parker in Spidey 2,
when he was really bogged down by everything around him
and gotten unsure about what hero means,
then he came back to his roots,
that is his home
and beloved aunt..

"I believe there's a hero in all of us,
that keeps us honest,
gives us strength,
makes us noble,
and finally allows us to die with pride,
even though sometimes we have to be steady,
and give up the thing we want the most.
Even our dreams."

My quote to that:
"To be a hero, you must be steady."

Perhaps the most important hero is in every one of us,
that relying on someone else's
won't ever be enough.

To you all..
who's keeping up with me
all this time.
You know who you are to me..

With the very whole of my heart
I thank you..

SOME OLD QUOTES

>		Just do it now, then.
>		Live life, love life.
>		I like to wish for the best to come, because sometimes I cannot be sure about what's going to be the best then.

SURVIVE

Take the pain,
do something.

Denial is easier (and instinctive, I think) but bad.
Acknowledge, feel the relieve, then deal with it.

THE BEST

The best thing for me
is not what I know is best for me
it's the best thing that I wanna do and really do.

... and I'm doing it right now.

JUST KEEP SWIMMING

Dory:		"Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you've gotta do?"
Marlin:		"No, I don't wanna know"
Dory:		(starts singing) "Just keep swimming... just keep swimming... just keep swimming, swimming, swimming..."

More memorable quotes from 'Finding Nemo' at IMDb.



^ The "Mine-mine" seagulls in 'Finding Nemo'.

More 'Finding Nemo' photos at IMDb.

EMPTINESS

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
You either have no goal that is important enough to you,
or you are not using your talents and efforts to strive
toward an important goal.

--Maxwell Maltz

LIFE IS

Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a dream, realise it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is love, enjoy it.

From 'Daun Berserakan' - Palgunadi T. Setyawan