Thursday, May 30, 2013
Take charge of your health
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren't really that big a deal. We focus on littleproblems and concerns and blow them way out of proportion. A stranger, for example, might cut in front of us in traffic. Rather than let it go, and go on with our day, we convince ourselves that we are justified in our anger. We play out an imaginary confrontation in our mind. Many of us might even tell someone else about the incident later on rather than simply let it go.
Why not instead simply allow the driver to have his accident somewhere else? Try to have compassion for the person and remember how painful it is to be in such an enormous hurry. This way, we can maintain our own sense of well-being and avoid taking other people's problems personally. There are many similar, "small stuff" examples that occur every day in our lives. Whether we had to wait in line, listen to unfair criticism, or do the lion's share of the work, it pays enormous dividends if we learn not to worry about little things.
So many people spend so much of their life energy "sweating the small stuff" that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life. When you commit to working toward this goal you will find that you will have far more energy to be kinder and gentler.
From: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all small stuff by Richard Carlson, PhD
What day is today?
Each person has a different way of handling grief. More often than not, when a person prefers to be silent is when the pain is so unbearable or shocking that he/she has no way to express it but to keep it inside.
People has always been judgmental when person appears to be unmoved or apathetic when someone died. In many crime tv series that I have watched, a spouse, a child or a parent that does not seem to be enraged when a loved one died ALWAYS becomes a top suspect.
My mother has always been my Achilles heel. My age is the same number of years that my mother has died. Every time that I come to my maternal relatives, I was always asked how old I am and then the next statement would always be ”I could not believe your mother has been dead for that long”. When I was young, I always fight the tears from falling down when I hear that. But as years go by I have become used to it that it has become my own personal “treat” to myself on my birthday. When I wake up on my birthday, it has become a habit of mine to remind myself that on that day I am XX years old and my mother has been dead for XX years.
Today is my mother’s birthday. We have always believed that she is our personal angel that she watches over us since none of us (me and my siblings) have never gone astray in our lives. We have lived separate lives for the same XX years. I have never seen her face (except for an old picture that I saw when I was already in my 20’s) but I have always fervently wished that before I die I want to see her face, that when she shows “herself” to me that’s a sign for me that I am going to die soon (I am terribly scared of ghosts by the way). I hope she fulfills that wish.
I know you are in heaven right now so your happiness is already guaranteed.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Three Moms
Monday, May 6, 2013
[ Blind Gossip ] Is this young, pretty franchise actress racist or just insensitive and controlling?
“OMG! Seriously? Seriously?! What the f*ck is this? I don’t want to listen to this disgusting ghetto music! Change it now!”
The room went silent as the rest of the guests stared at her – and at each other – shocked that she would say such a thing. The song was changed, per her demand, and the actress went back to drinking and partying. She may be pretty, but she was also pretty controlling and pretty tone-deaf to the mix of people in the room.
SOLVED!
It’s Kristen Stewart! Source: BlindGossip.com
This event occurred in a hotel room. Someone put on a song by the late Tupac Shakur, and Kristen made the unfortunate “ghetto” comment. There were a few people in the room who weren’t as pale as Kristen (is anyone?), and they found the remark offensive. Nobody challenged her on it. They just changed the music and commented on it when she left the room.
That comment might just be a footnote if it wasn’t for another recent event that touches on the same topic.
Kristen Stewart recently dropped out as the lead on a film when the male lead was changed from Ben Affleck to Will Smith. From Vulture :
Ben Affleck got too busy to do the con artist romance Focus with Kristen Stewart. Now Will Smith is assuming the Affleck role, but “Stewart fell off with the feeling that the age difference between the two would be too large a gap,” Variety reports. (Smith is 44; Affleck is 40. Stewart is 23.)
By the way, Rupert Sanders, the director with whom Stewart had an affair, is 42. So, yes, the age excuse sounded flimsy. Perhaps is was just a chemistry thing, or she changed her mind about the role.
In any case, Stewart needs to tread carefully if she wants to avoid even the appearance of insensitivity to minorities in the future. In fact, if the chatter on this one doesn’t die down soon, you can expect that she will be pushed into a project with a black costar.
Source: http://mobile.blindgossip.com/#2369
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