dream killers: random thoughts

Chop-chop thoughts found in different notebooks lying around my room. Too lazy to write properly.

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Every accomplished person has gone through their particular low points. So what makes you think you’re exempt, sweetie? Embrace the challenge; embrace the trials and difficulties, because one day, it will be all worth it.

I dream in different dimensions. I must remember though, to alert myself to the moment, to the newness and the unfamiliarity of something new. What if my dreams take a lifetime? I know that life has its rewards; for everything I’ve learned, I know now that your rewards come when you least expect it- one just has to be ready for it when it happens.

One must take care not to be a dream-killer, to oneself and to others. If you must choose between family, friends, and your dreams, choose your dreams. Those who matter and those who love you will follow you as you pursue your dreams.

I don’t believe in being a victim of life, of circumstances. We are where we are because of the choices that we make and I believe that we don’t have any right to complain. I have never encountered a situation where I am cornered and not have a say in it. People too often define themselves by how they are born, how they are raised, and how things are for them right now. By their hardships and pain, by their feelings. Why can’t we be defined by who we truly are?

A writer spins her story unrushed, taking the time out to form characters, to draw out and mold the nuances of each paragraph. Why then, shouldn’t life be that way? We rush to our everydays and yet we forget that everything has its own perfect timing- even the lousy parts.

Existential psychology says that denying anxiety is denying life itself- if you’re not scared, you’re not right.

Alek Wek, supermodel, in her memoir says: “By then I understood that if I wanted something, I had to go and get it myself. That job was my trust fund. But that doesn’t mean I liked it.” The supermodel used to scrub toilets at the BBC office then “moved up” to a shampoo girl stint at a salon.

Gokongwei himself admitted that entrepreneurship was not an easy path to take. “But we have to start somewhere, however small, however difficult,” he said in his speech.

From Glenn Mangurian, in an issue of Harvard Business Magazine

“You can’t know what will happen tomorrow- and its better that way.

You cannot control what happens- just how you respond.

Adversity distorts reality but crystallizes the truth.

Loss amplifies the value of what remains.

It’s easier to create new dreams than to cling to broken ones.

Your happiness is more important than righting injustices.”