This I Have To Say

Using my blog, I need to vent out some things that I have experienced, known and seen elsewhere.

I received a complaint about me from a very reliable source from one of my classes. I fail to come to their classes due to some unavoidable schedules. I am actually doing everything I need to do so to catch up on our lost meetigns. Admittedly, every time we will meet, I have important things to be done. I am very sorry for that.

I accept the complaint but hopefully, before they do the complaint, I want them to hear my part or complaint to them. I'm not saying I am a perfect lecturer but believe me, I'm doing the best that I can to satisfy what you want from me but it is you that you don't satisfy me a lot. And it is all about your attitude. Though you don't show it a lot but I feel it. Every time I go inside the room, I was not greeted. It even seems that I don't exist in front of the class. You never said "thank you," and "good bye!" And yes, when I teach, lots of noises are surrounded. If I talk, you talk. The things I talk about are important, but yours are somewhat hullabaloos and nonsensical knickknacks.

If I could be given a chance to make some complaints, I will complain about your pesky and imperious attitude. Don't be so political because I don't know one. Be what you have to be and know what you shall be, my student!

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I went to Ortigas last Friday and I saw this at the Billboardlandia, also known as Pasig River between Makati and Mandaluyong. That part of the riverside is dedicated for the billboards of Bench. And every time they put out their outdoor ads, expected it will spring different kinds of reaction. And this is one good example of many people plying EDSA giving reactions about the newest ad of Bench about showing different kinds of love.

A gay couple, Preview magazine's creative director Vince Uy and his partner Nino, was put on the newest Bench ad. It was a cool one because a kind of love is shown here, two people with same gender show what love is. It is shown with their two hands clutched. If you would notice on the second photo, the clutched hands of the two lovebirds have been painted black. According to Vince Uy, they do not have any idea who did the painting and the reason for painting it.

We are living in a very conservative country, putting religion on top of the reasons.  Conservative in its sense that the love of two boys (even two girls) are considered not cool. But the bottomline in all of this, they're just ads. It is all up to the people on the way they wanted to comprehend the message of it. Going beyond what it really looks like, it gives us a message about love. Another thing, it is only holding hands and it should not become a national headline. They look cute and they love with each other. Still, it gives a message, a message about love. I am not saying this because I am like them. But like us, we are also entitled outright to be in love!

Love does not have any rules to follow. Love does not need a perfect model to follow. Love only requires you to have the guts to be loved, to get hurt really and to get inspired on.

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This is actually true. The moment that everything became not okay not makes me feel not happy anymore.

Why is it that we need to feel, accept and understand some changes that we don't actually need? Even not expecting to? 

Why is it that for every changes, happiness is always at stake? 

For me, whenever I'm not happy, I don't push myself to the uppermost limits. I just go with the flow, waiting for something to get finished and then move to the next. It is not a good idea, of course, but I can't help. One reason is the culprit for all of this, not happy anymore.

If changes are as simple as closing your eyes for few seconds and then when you open it, it is all gone. If changes are really for the better and not to make it even worse. If changes will give me the reason to move forward but it is not.

Everything happens for a reason. May I know the reason why everything happens?

Let me share to you a simple message from a newfound friend: "...just keep on going. Look at the positive side of life." At the end of the day, you would realize, what are some things that made me happy? What should I do to make my life normalized and optimistic?

Now I know how, just keep on going. Changes are part of the journey. Unhappiness is part of the journey. And this journey will surely reach its end. And by reaching its end are also the ugly changes and unhappy will also have its end.

Just came out from my heart and my mind, and after this sentence, this will be done!

Toodles!!!