security blanket, what works for you?

I've been very busy lately and it hacked me off my time for the blog. And, during the stretch of the week that passed, coffee's been my bud. Yummy.

At duress, admit it or not, we look for help or boost, either from someone we know or from rituals we know to keep us moving – believers pray for guidance and help, married people go to their spouses for some advices and comfort, others perform their ritual or mantra, while some others do a combination of two or all.

Imagine yourself not being able to do your ritual or not having that someone to keep you going. Not that you've been too dependent or won't be able to accomplish the task without your ritual or significant someone, but that you won't be the same. In my own practice, I've seen surgeons do their rituals. Shhh… some lay themselves on the OR table in their theatre minutes or an hour before the theatre is prepped, and the more common is that they eat a lot, while some just listen to their music.

People need to be in tip-top shape when doing their thing, lest they'd perform differently or even less. We probably saw many movie highlights where we see the performance dynamics of the lead actor in a movie who is expecting someone from the audience and finding out that their significant someone not being there, until finally seeing that special someone in the audience or the bleachers and, whoala! - from making a so-so performance to being in the zone. It gives us the needed push to beat ourselves and show our significant someone we're really good at what we do, in basketball, in singing, dancing or anything we do.

Call it just a mind set, but really sometimes we just fold and find ourselves not in our zone without our rituals and significant someone. Life in and itself is a wonder and it makes me think that perhaps we never really shed off the baby in us. I did not mean it to be something negative – just a pure observation and I may be wrong. We need a sort of security blanket. Babies and the young ones do and I guess that can be said also of us who need something and someone before performing our tasks.

As for me, I do a combination of two. I could not start the day without the kick of caffeine, and more of it when busy doing things. I start and end the day actually with it. Call me an addict, whatsoever, but it works for me. More importantly, I pray. It makes me stay collected. I am a believer and I'd say there is an All-Great Power over all things and it's to HIM I come and would come first for wisdom and help.

So, what works for you?

In Love with Life

In love with life?

Taking a break from the coffee salvo here, I noticed this line just recently from a mouse-over quote on an avatar in my yahoo mail home. A short but striking line – well, at least to me. I asked myself, am I? Well, yes I am and why wouldn’t I be?

I am a nurse by profession and my profession calls for the preservation of life and taking care of it. With it, I am exposed back from being just a student-nurse to being a full-pledged professional nurse to the stages of life and its wonders - (I believe in God and I have Him to thank for this wonder) - from conception, the fertilization of ovum of the female by male, to the formation of embryo, to becoming a fetus, to labor and delivery, through human’s growth and development, be it normal and abnormal – or what allied medical sciences call as physiological and pathological stages of growth and development.

Simple to complex

Life’s direction starts as a simple process to a more complex one. Notice that as life goes, we become more and more concerned about complicated things. Pleasure is the general rule of life. As a very young individual, we only concern ourselves with food and elimination. Heck, it is not even our problem but the ones taking care of us. And, as we grow older, we become concern of many more things which define our pleasure. We look for play and leisure, then companionship, accomplishment of tasks. At our productive age, our existence becomes more defined on the utilization of our talents to continue to have our pleasure. We work to live and have our life. Then, we reap in retirement what we sow during the majority of our existence – relaxation and pleasure. We then elude complications, but we become more concerned about the people around us.

Complications

Life is not without complications. Very early in life, the problems posed on us are more of the bodily functions that define food and elimination. It is critical that we are fed only by clean and palatable food for young; otherwise, we develop elimination problems such as diarrhea and constipation – and with it develop infection. Infection and diarrhea must at all times be prevented since young individuals have more fluid percentage of the body than adult individuals. The logic in that young individuals become easily dehydrated and it then will alter the developing body – and the mental development which is very crucial at this life’s stage. Later in life, aside from diseases, challenges posed on us are accomplishment of tasks and the consequences if we are unable to do so. Failure to accomplish any required tasks will have a doubling effect and will only pose more and more complications. Failing grades leading to more requirements and delay in education. It has a holistic effect on an individual – mentally, physiologically, emotionally, spiritually – and depending on the support system that that individual has will define the character of the individual whether to rise up to the situation or not and fail even more.

Character

Our character defines what our life will be in general. If you’re a person who is strong willed and goal‑oriented, chances are you will have a better life. But, if you’re a person who is fixated and easily contented, you’re life will easily plateau and may not reach many milestones. And, if you’re at the extreme, which is easily discouraged and defeated by challenges, you will more than likely have a hard time in life.

At both extremes, I believe that whatever our present life is gives us more than enough reason to love it. After all, as long as we still live, we still and always are conferred with the chance of making it better - because conceding that life will not get better is tantamount to killing yourself. It is the person who owns life who gives chance to life to get better and not anyone else. We make our own lives. Love it and it will be better.

Life is a coffee of unknown greats

Again, am I in love with Life? I have billions of reasons to be. I am surrounded by good people – my family and friends and more friends. Life is a coffee of unknown greats. It is bitter and sweet at the same time and while you’re at it, there are more and more unknown greats to discover and experience.

brewing the site to your taste

although no one has ever visited this site and while this site has been created back in 2005, what happened today still merits my touchpad. this, because today i did a major overhaul of this site - from the template to the elements. i am not really big on blogging and doing stuff which the public can easily access, but hey, i must say i really enjoyed doing this. well, ahh, not much on the blogging (?yet), but the tweaking of the site. what i did may be simple stuff and more of a dummy thing, but for a moment, i felt like an IT savvy. thanks to the abundance of help the world wide web provides and of course, thank you to the real internet savvies out there. thank you. it really felt like brewing the coffee to your taste, adding a little of this and that, previewing the site like tasting it, and then finally sitting back on your coffee chair while enjoying every sip of it.

solitude

inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power. No one can grow in either spiritual knowledge or power without it.