tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37010804991992575252024-03-05T07:27:56.692-08:00Kind of FriendshipLinks between the dialoguesNozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-25097390958733075982021-02-13T09:06:00.002-08:002021-02-13T09:06:46.568-08:00Hope the better things in 2021What should we expect for 2021? Well, my guess is everything will start to feel a bit more normal—especially as the vaccine continues to roll out. But I’m not in control of the world, so how would I know for sure?
I am not in control of the world, however I am in control of myself… and you are in control of yourself. So even though we can’t control everything around us, we can control some things.
At the very least, we can control how we interact with the world around us. And many times, that makes all the difference.
To that end, in an effort to make 2021 a better year for everyone, here are 12 decisions we can all make as the new year begins:
1. Smile more.
I think we all miss seeing smiles in public spaces. Once the masks are off, decide to show more of those pearly whites every chance you get.
2. Complain less.
2020 was a year of dealing with life-and-death issues on an almost daily basis. In some ways, all the things we used to complain about seem so small now. So let’s decide to no longer complain about the small stuff.
3. Appreciate more.
I thought 2020 would be the year I got everything I wanted. Now I know 2020 was the year to appreciate everything I have. Decide now to carry that forward into 2021 and appreciate all the good around us in a more intentional way.
4. Connect more.
In 2020, we lost the ability to connect with others in-person—at coffee shops, churches, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, and even some family gatherings. Let’s never overlook the opportunity to connect with others again.
5. Own less.
When everything is taken away, we see what is most important. When it comes to recognizing what activities contribute to quality of life, accumulating physical stuff pales in comparison to the actual life-giving pursuits we are being forced to go without. Decide now to own less in 2021.
6. Encourage more.
2020 was a hard year for everyone! And all of us needed encouragement from time-to-time. Let’s give it freely in 2021—whether people ask for it or not.
7. Waste less.
Seems like we all learned the value of another day and another opportunity—because too many had their last one taken from them in 2020. Let’s decide now to not waste any day, any moment, or any amount of energy remaining.
8. Thank more.
Decide now to say “thank you” more often. You will be blessed, and the recipient will be blessed. Win-win.
9. Compete less.
One thing is for sure—we’re all in this world together. As a result, it’s too easy to see the world as competition against one another. Instead, let’s remember we’re on the same team, all trying to be the best versions of ourselves. If you want to compete, compete against who you were yesterday rather than the stranger down the street.
10. Understand more.
Not only was 2020 marked with a global pandemic and economic downturn, in many parts of the world (including my own) it was a year of political strife and division where a difference in opinion was often regarded as a difference in principle. It rarely is. Everyone will benefit—both sides—if we decide now to argue less and understand more.
11. Save more.
With the overnight shutdown/collapse of many businesses and a worldwide economy, 2020 showed the importance of having some financial savings in reserve. If you haven’t made saving a priority, decide to do it now. Here are some helpful steps to get there.
12. Love more.
Love your spouse. Love your kids. Love your friends. Love your co-workers. Love your neighbor. Love. The world needs more of it.
What does 2021 hold? I have no idea.
But with these 12 decisions as my resolutions for 2020, I’m ready for just about anything. Because life is more than the circumstances surrounding me.<div class="fullpost">
source and thanks to : https://www.becomingminimalist.com/make-2021-better/
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hallo teman2 Blogger
saya buka kembali hobby lama ngeblog ini, silahkan abaikan tulisan blog saya dalam bahasa Inggris hasil kerja sama dengan teman2 lama. Saya mencoba membuka kesempatan baru untuk berbagi dengan kalian setelah saya tidak jomblo lagi, mudah2an bermanfaat
salam
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Victim-blaming attitudes are one of these barriers and place survivors in greater danger.<br />First of All, Where Does It Come From?<br /><br />One reason people blame a victim is to distance themselves from an unpleasant occurrence and thereby confirm their own invulnerability to the risk. By labeling or accusing the victim, others can see her as different from themselves. People reassure themselves by thinking, "Because I am not like her, because I do not do that, this would never happen to me."<br />Why Is It Dangerous?<br /><br />Victim-blaming attitudes only work to marginalize the victim and make it harder for her to come forward and report the abuse. If she knows that you or society blames her for the abuse, she will not feel safe or comfortable coming forward and talking to you.<br /><br />Victim-blaming attitudes also reinforce what her abuser has been saying all along; that it is her fault this is happening to her. It is NOT her fault or her responsibility to fix the situation; it is the abuser’s choice. By engaging in victim-blaming attitudes, society allows the abuser to perpetrate violence against his partner while avoiding accountability for his actions.<br />What Does Victim-Blaming Look Like?<div class="fullpost">Example of Victim-Blaming Attitude: “There are possibilities for a happy relationship if both parties are willing to change.”<br /><br />Reality: This statement assumes that the victim is equally to blame for the abuse, when in reality, abuse is a conscious choice made by the abuser. Abusers have a choice in how they react to their partner’s actions. Options beside abuse include: walking away, talking in the moment, respectfully explaining why an action is frustrating, breaking up, etc.<br /><br />Additionally, abuse is not about individual actions that incite the abuser to hurt his partner, but rather about the abuser’s feelings of entitlement and desire to control his partner.<br /><br />When friends and family remain neutral about the abuse and say that both people need to change, they are colluding with and supporting the abusive partner and making it less likely that the survivor will seek support.<br />What Can I Do About It?<br /><br /> * Challenge victim-blaming statements when you hear them<br /> * Do not agree with abusers’ excuses for why they abuse<br /> * Let survivors know that it is not their fault<br /> * Hold abusers accountable for their actions: do not let them make excuses like blaming the victim, alcohol, or drugs for their behavior<br /> * Acknowledge that the survivor is her own best expert and provide her with resources and support<br /><br />Remember if you are aware of abusive behavior and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-10072135422348540052010-04-09T23:23:00.000-07:002010-04-09T23:33:27.133-07:00Eagle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd04QqdvCejvvbtlaNKn6CUWH2zXc6PGFy4s3doXtOgNATG4dhPQMp9qxRl_a-8EWWRiTspDw0ActRHRK5HceuWaDeSdpFwnLXpKsCorA9AmqLXwRk4EgnOlDSSOkV7pKHi4PplbcK9Go/s1600/bald-eagle-flight.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd04QqdvCejvvbtlaNKn6CUWH2zXc6PGFy4s3doXtOgNATG4dhPQMp9qxRl_a-8EWWRiTspDw0ActRHRK5HceuWaDeSdpFwnLXpKsCorA9AmqLXwRk4EgnOlDSSOkV7pKHi4PplbcK9Go/s320/bald-eagle-flight.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458392086672948018" /></a><br />Eagle is a type of poultry that have the longest life of the world. Can reach 70 years old. But to achieve the age long as it is an eagle must make a decision that is very heavy at that age to 40.<br /><br />When 40-year-old eagle, paws getting old, long and curved beak into until it almost touched his chest. The wings are so heavy because of his fur has grown dense and thick, so it is very difficult time flying. At that time, eagles have only two choices: Waiting for death, or experiencing a very painful process of transformation - a transformation process over 150 days long.<br />To perform the transformation, the eagle must strive to fly above the mountain peaks to the edge of the abyss and then make a nest, stopped and stayed there during the transformation process underway.<div class="fullpost"><br />First of all, the eagle must breaking beak on the rock until the part is separated from his mouth, then grows quiet for a while waiting for a new beak. With the new beak to grow it, he had to pull out one by one his claws and when the new claw has grown, he will pluck his body one by one. A long and painful process. Five months later, the eagle feathers that had grow new. Start eagle can fly again. With the new beak and claws, the hawk began to undergo 30 years of her new life with full of energy?<br /><br />In this our life, sometimes we also need to make a tough decision to initiate any process of renewal. We must be brave and willing to throw away all the old habit of binding, although old habits it is something fun.<br /><br />We must be willing to leave the old behavior so that we can start flying again reaching for a better purpose in the future. Only when we are willing to let go of old baggage, open to learning new things, we've just had an opportunity to develop our latent abilities, hone new skills and face the future with confidence.<br /><br />The biggest obstacle to change lies within yourself and you are the ruler over yourself. Do not let the past dulled our spirits up and wither.<br /><br />You are the hawk-eagle.<br /><br />Change must happen. Thus, we must change for the better from now!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-52771933406180542582010-04-09T18:47:00.000-07:002010-04-09T18:50:53.926-07:00Decision<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9qwJMhXFsvSSNvUQ70OwhiWduro69opr9qYmqgxsiDwgI9Hc6NiNBYgHkNED9eBW0_BZmRdoDTcgmRllId3c3qyw7LGPaKwzapqFaT_rvSveC1zqsswePRI5y6SH0qvCGHKJGuDtoA8/s1600/decision.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9qwJMhXFsvSSNvUQ70OwhiWduro69opr9qYmqgxsiDwgI9Hc6NiNBYgHkNED9eBW0_BZmRdoDTcgmRllId3c3qyw7LGPaKwzapqFaT_rvSveC1zqsswePRI5y6SH0qvCGHKJGuDtoA8/s320/decision.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458319937196149170" /></a><br />Inspiration from the daily routines that involve the accuracy of the decision to write a few tips that if little-a lot of help to remind the concerned personnel. especially for routine or urgent situation faced with a situation that requires us to make decisions. Decision making can not be done carelessly, because our decision today will affect our lives in the future.<br /><br />Deciding what is important is not an easy thing. Moreover, if the decision is a decision that determines the motion of the company's business. You need a long time to take the best decision. Quite often you hit "dizziness headache" because when I was thinking, you're forced to make decisions quickly.<br /><br />To you who are thinking of taking a decision, try deh following quick tips:<div class="fullpost"><br />1. Do not be afraid to make decisions. Some people are afraid of making decisions. Consequently it is not we who make decisions but keadaanlah that gives us a decision.<br /><br />2. Do not make decisions emotionally, but please use consideration. Thus we are able to think rationally and calculate plus minus of every decision that we wish to take.<br /><br />3. To produce quick decisions, you should not delay because the decision could not only through the process of a single night. Keep an eye on any developments that might change your decision at any time.<br /><br />4. Use a sharp analysis in data processing that has been painstakingly you collect. Take the wisest decision and have the smallest risk. You also still need to supervise the implementation of those decisions one after another.<br /><br />5. Make sure you know the last limit (deadline), when decisions had to be determined. After that set deadlines for yourself, when you have a decision has been made. Record the date you set as the limit deadline.<br /><br />6. Please specify clearly the criteria or qualifications that you have to take decisions. For example the decision must be profitable and the company's employees or the decision is not burdensome for all concerned.<br /><br />7. Gather information and important data that affects the decision. Because who knows the information is required for materials argumentation. Do not forget to set a time limit information gathering.<br /><br />8. Make your decision from several alternative data and information already collected. Learn and consider the value or weight of each of these alternatives, which are the most fitting and appropriate.<br /><br />9. Do not even apply subjective in making decisions. This means do not choose your favorable decision or a group of people alone.<br /><br />10. When you have studied and carefully consider alternatives such decision, do not hesitate to determine the best decision from which there are several alternative decisions. Remember, hesitation will only make decisions that you take "raw" return.<br /><br />11. Announce decisions you make in a timely manner and have been determined. In announcing this decision make sure that your data is supported by a strong, accurate and relevant. If you need time disclose, say that this decision was made on the consideration and mature and rational thinking.<br /><br />12. Do not be afraid to expose your arguments, if any party who objected. Do not complain or protest from the recipient makes you think the decision to change the decision you've made.<br /><br />13. In making decisions, you choose from several alternatives, rather than choose which one or which one is correct. So, there is no right or wrong decision. But the decisions could be result does not match what we expect. So, you do not have to regret that decision has been taken. What else is fixated on a protracted regret when the decision you took was not producing the results we expect.<br /><br />14. After taking a decision, whatever the outcome, you must monitor and hold, and focus your efforts to make the best of what was decided. You can also make various adjustments so the results can be directed to the achievement of those objectives together.<br /><br />15. In a quick decision, as far as possible involve the people associated with the decision taken. By involving them, you can get valuable feedback, in addition, you can invite their commitment to support the decisions that have been taken. All you can do, among others, are asking their opinions and suggestions. This information could be a reference to a decision.<br /><br />Now, if the decision was unanimous, lest you pollute the consequences of the decision-making decisions that have been set together. Good decision!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-17549665669984684032010-03-19T23:40:00.000-07:002010-03-19T23:42:57.233-07:00Smile<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFwP6mGw90ipqJRASfjLq4BWGrv7X2-pclMekuNj6ykXX968KdBZ02PAmmt6VkhcpF2Ta8DUE7cwXuq87q2mjw6RbVzMsEu_2BetTy2VXYN1jUxLqnNG595EaJ4c4_OJJQLlLhUnGlOM/s1600-h/smile.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFwP6mGw90ipqJRASfjLq4BWGrv7X2-pclMekuNj6ykXX968KdBZ02PAmmt6VkhcpF2Ta8DUE7cwXuq87q2mjw6RbVzMsEu_2BetTy2VXYN1jUxLqnNG595EaJ4c4_OJJQLlLhUnGlOM/s320/smile.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450602635901688642" /></a><br />Says a proverb, it takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to Frown.<br />is lost if someone does not like or hard to smile. First remember his strength and the resulting positive effects; friendly impression, intimate, happy, relieved, and changing negative energy into positive. And second, a smile is charity lightly. Free, no need to pay and easier and lighter than the sullen or surly. <br /><br />Even a thin smile, which seemed sincere, like a smile on Antonio Maria Lisa Gherardini - we know Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), still imply happiness. A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam have measured the Mona Lisa's smile and get surprising results. Results from the analysis of emotion recognition software they developed to Leonardo's Mona Lisa painted in 1503 that stated that the smile of Francesco del Gioconda wife implies 83% feeling happy, 9% disgusted, 6% anxiety, and 2% angry. Even supposedly our impression of the Mona Lisa's smile will always differ as much as we view it. Hence a scientific study of the smile that smile of Leonardo's painting "more divine than human."<div class="fullpost"><br />Imagine. The smile of a thin painting still implies so much happiness. So much mystery. What if the smile was genuine, sincere, and genuine smile, not a scratch painting invented?<br /><br />A smile that seems as simple things that in fact is an indicator of the Big Shot. Besides very difficult to achieve, this one's smile is not "done", but "found." And he could not get in a short time immediately, but the achievement of a long process before. This is a smile "results".<br /><br />There's an old saying, whoever said it first: if you cry when born and the people smiling, happy, then make the people cry when you die while you own smile. A maxim in all its meaning.<br /><br />So obvious that there is a tremendous smile. May not have physical meaning smile, but also significant (a joy). The smile that is a representation of the life of someone who has lived all his life. When he could close his life with a charming smile, then it is the signs of a good end full of joy for the gift of God-given. the gold of life has been lived and will be lived one day in the life of the second; the eternal.<br /><br />Frankly, we all expect it, right?<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-38889730329532583222010-03-01T21:09:00.000-08:002010-03-01T21:11:32.292-08:00Friends as a gift<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3z9vo2YXRuGTeLUxPh0TrlHX0TY9bYQCCqVLNciQLjL8DPkNl-h7D2A9kRrqAGk08RuFAGuuhyphenhyphenx-vp4sJZGk4Hltc9q39RoMJuTUzBlMmvi-F93zXJjW1QvQCnwrvdpTQvKFDoGtEVw/s1600-h/gift-boxes-480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3z9vo2YXRuGTeLUxPh0TrlHX0TY9bYQCCqVLNciQLjL8DPkNl-h7D2A9kRrqAGk08RuFAGuuhyphenhyphenx-vp4sJZGk4Hltc9q39RoMJuTUzBlMmvi-F93zXJjW1QvQCnwrvdpTQvKFDoGtEVw/s320/gift-boxes-480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443899734999307234" /></a><br />Understanding the nature of a friend in another perspective, of course subjectivity of personal experience. if there is justification or other views of friends, please add / correction text of this article. there who have read this article just translate the writing on the column of friends . so this article just to share for you.<br /><br />As a gift, there is a nice wrapper and some bad packaging. A nice wrapper has beautiful face, or an attractive personality. Which have a face ugly wrapper ordinary, or normal personality. Or vice versa annoying and they bring to us. indeed a human trait.<br /><br />As a gift, there is good content and there is bad contents. What good it had a soul so beautiful that we are fascinated when sharing feelings with him. Or when we stand to spend long hours, telling stories and entertaining each other, cried together and laughed together. We appreciate him and he appreciated us.<div class="fullpost"><br />The contents of which have poor wounded souls. Once in the wounds so that her soul can no longer love, precisely because he/she does not feel the love in his/her life. Unfortunately we often catch him precisely the attitude of rejection, resentment, hatred, envy, pride, anger, and others.<br /><br />We do not like the kind souls of this and try to avoid them. We do not know that it is not because they are basically bad. But the soul's inability to give love because he just needs our love. He requires our empathy, patience and courage us to listen to the deepest wounds of his soul.<br /><br />How can we expect someone who hurt his knee running with us? How can we ask someone who is afraid of water to swim together? The wound on his knee and the fear of water to be healed, not berate them because they do not want to run or swim with us.<br /><br />They're not going to say that the "knee" of their injuries or their "fear of water", they will say that they do not like running or they'll say swimming was boring and others. That's how they defend themselves.<br /><br />They'll say "Dancing is not interesting" and would not say "I can not dance".<br />They'll say "No matches with me" and would not say "I need you with me".<br />They'll say "My friends have passed all" and would not say "I'm lonely".<br />They'll say "I was bad, who would stand with me" and would not say "I need to be accepted".<br />They will say "The story of my life boring" and would not say "I want to be heard".<br /><br />They were all present for us, whether good or bad packaging, whether it good or bad. And do not be fooled by the packaging. Only when we meet the soul-with-soul, we know the real gift from God prepared for us.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-30657835667403177262010-02-18T23:10:00.000-08:002010-02-18T23:21:49.531-08:00One Million Thank You Give Aways<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIU5aSmEPi8fEtEJsL2rbEw9kxXvVj6M6GxJ1YuDh0BxZev1vVCnlA0Ks6QfvcKvmBobbdj6zaeFFxHZrpqubflkuUtzLyyDnSOdePhG5S06yLOc3b24UlM4aEONSt6bFew8_xGIPZ0g4/s1600-h/onemilliongiveaway.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIU5aSmEPi8fEtEJsL2rbEw9kxXvVj6M6GxJ1YuDh0BxZev1vVCnlA0Ks6QfvcKvmBobbdj6zaeFFxHZrpqubflkuUtzLyyDnSOdePhG5S06yLOc3b24UlM4aEONSt6bFew8_xGIPZ0g4/s320/onemilliongiveaway.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439849791043143474" /></a><br />Join <a href="http://tututina.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-herrrrreee.html">Tututina’s Blog</a> where she is having a One Million Thank You Give Aways because her blog reaches over 1 million visits! <br />She will be giving away the following exciting prizes:<br /><br />1st prize - $15.00 and 3 months of free advertising!<br />2nd prize - $10.00 and 3 months of free advertising!<br />3rd prize - $5.00 and 1 month of free advertising!<br /><br />Advertisement are in the special top spot and the winners will receive their prize money through their paypal account.<br /><br />How to enter:<br /><br />It's so easy to enter! All you have to do is blog about this give away and leave Tina a comment to let her know you've done that. You must leave her your blog address or URL so she can see that you've posted about this give away in order for your entries to be valid. That's all!<br /><br />Draw Dates:<br /><br />Feb 12: 3rd prize<br />Feb 19: 2nd Prize<br />Feb 26: 1st prize<br /><br />That means the draw is happening as early as next week! so hurry and get your entries in! Good luck to me and too all who will join this contest!<br /><br />Join now:-)<div class="fullpost"><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-45788561530853149812010-02-16T18:20:00.000-08:002010-02-16T18:25:54.081-08:00Ending of Love<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JxCuRTPWG74bYeQxIZU6P-TRwj4iKpFqScgSJYxwCAiSSrb3gAaknpg4vBnBKHqQSlYY0ONKfLEl2Wkc6mj8pIEMSC9bvrU1dLyQsrblq7fasGx8P7rf_QB6bcUnho5O0KaP2q6ZYiI/s1600-h/Love.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JxCuRTPWG74bYeQxIZU6P-TRwj4iKpFqScgSJYxwCAiSSrb3gAaknpg4vBnBKHqQSlYY0ONKfLEl2Wkc6mj8pIEMSC9bvrU1dLyQsrblq7fasGx8P7rf_QB6bcUnho5O0KaP2q6ZYiI/s320/Love.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439032735453462194" /></a><br />I still remember a friend who wrote the article with the title "unrequited love". Yes, if you've talked about "LOVE", there will never be said, finally, because LOVE is a beautiful gift and make uneasy. Infiniti meaning / no limit to the described.<br /><br />Love does not / has not avenged be painful .. (make a curious and fantasy), "if he wanted with me ..", "what he knows how I feel it?". Like it or not, we are forced to admit the truth. every day the same question that always comes up alternately.<br /><br />When he showed the response to the "there", our hearts immediately "blink-blink" brilliant, we just felt that note .. "o, was right .. he also had the same feeling," "yeah, only I can focus like that .. blah blah blah". Again, if the one who makes us nervous cool in one day, without a command of the heart to say "hey you, I just kidding", "oh, she did not like me". This circle will always be spinning endlessly if we do not ask him directly to the (for fear of risks declined) <br /><br />how naive only because of love on one person, we forget the love from the people who have given her one true love of parents, siblings, friends, teachers, etc..<br /><br />Well, now how about unrequited Love? Is it like the picture of people with a broken heart because of their love unrequited? Unrequited love that is beautiful and happy?.<div class="fullpost"><br />Love. Certainly the most beautiful gift that will never come to man, the creature that has reason and feelings. We also never planned to love someone. Love came unexpectedly, just flows and worst .. difficult to stop it.! At the time, the virus was pink and came to us bluss!! LOVE THAT was reciprocated! It really it beautiful?<br /><br />Is it Happy? It was from some survey results, obtained conclusion "that unrequited love is not always as expected". SCIENCE, complemented by the honesty of conscience deposited by THE OWNER LOVE makes us nervous: scared adulterous heart and enjoy the varied emotion.<br /><br />The days filled with hesitation .. when we are happy to meet with "him", at the same time a sense of "fear" present, when we miss him, at the same time we feel ashamed because we rarely remember the owner, GOD. Inner struggle will be very tiring if we are not trying to "defend" themselves.<br /><br />Okay, for those who already have the ability and desire to marry the old man's blessing, they have a solution: MARRIED IMMEDIATELY!. Happy for the friends who are in an atmosphere like this.<br /><br />Well, for those who do not have the ability? or who fell in love to another, or who have not sanctioned parents to get married, or more, who fell in love with my fiancee, husband or wife of someone else? Wow ... This is a Difficulty EXAM!, it does not mean God does not care about us, give gift and a trial, but instead we are the people who elected to prove the sincerity of his love. So?<br /><br />Should we drift and drift off with the love of this moment? Come on guys! True love framed in marriage. In that frame we really have the right to express all the feelings of love are there to reach his love the Great. Married, or have proposed, only that option.<br /><br />Do not be trapped quasi LOVE!! If the name of "Boy/Girl friend" present without being invited, immediately replace with the patient and busy themselves with activities that require concentration. Be very careful with my heart soared as it would very sick when crashes.<br /><br />This paper only discourse to be the same reflection. Hopefully we can enjoy LOVE awarded him with deep gratitude, make us love Him more in every breath, trying to keep saying his name so as not to change the name of the "Boy/Girl friend".<br /><br />Continue to enjoy just LOVE to expect a reply from the owners love of Love (One God), because only he never let us down.<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-47585114624574243462010-01-26T21:45:00.000-08:002010-01-26T21:48:13.701-08:00YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND PROBLEMS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fwedlRz0Iy0/S1_Tir_24AI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Gryq5AA_33I/s1600-h/Stick+people+holding+hands.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 282px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fwedlRz0Iy0/S1_Tir_24AI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Gryq5AA_33I/s320/Stick+people+holding+hands.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431292268511682562" /></a><br />Often we hear that a friend or many friends is the most fun and happy. There's even a express happy and proud because someone has a friend from all the circles (of the average person (the commoners) to officials). So that wherever we are if it happens to get in trouble / difficulties would be easy to get help. Of course this depends on your own, how much you can build quality of friendship or companionship. Can be interpreted in the smaller, for example in the office environment. We make friends from the office boy, until the top leadership. Why not, it might be.At least after reading this article, you can see yourself,<br />how many of you have a network of friendships in the face of this earth. Origin<br />You not only have two friends, or even just one and not have?<br />Maybe you think no need so many friends during this, but who knows in the future? Whatever your opinion, has many people who pay attention and love you, is a thing that beautiful. Even for some people, friends with many people nutrients like live your life. Nothing wrong with listening again how the strategy regarding<br />your friendship, and what needs to be revised. If you have been feeling<br />have a lot of 'blemish', do not think, the sympathy of others no longer can<br />built.<div class="fullpost"><br />Some of the things that affect your friendship matters:<br />• Caution is important; attention to the factors that determine What kind of quality you get up in friendship. How maybe someone will consider you a friend is important, if you never smile back. Of course it was only a small sample.Think about it, if you long enough to know this problem friends near you, give a helping hand (and heart) when they are difficult. Are you enough attention to the happy days colleagues near you. It could be from 10 wedding invitations, You only have to attend 1<br />• The promise is also important; you will not be happy if it was called as the<br />braggart. This is a powerful influence on your self worth. Once people have not believed the promises that came out of your mouth, then you have entered in the list of no importance him. Perhaps you are good-hearted, fun, but if not trusted, quality of friendship is not optimal is not it?<br />Revision is your attitude toward promise. Get used to promise something that<br />unusual but very probably carried out. You have to fight for deliver.<br />• You and Your Aura; This is important. There are many people who do not<br />realized that he did not make others feel comfortable in nearby. Perhaps this happens because you do not have the aura fun. Ask the people closest to him. Family,best friend's boyfriend or sticky. What attitude to yourself that<br />they were most annoyed. What also makes people reluctant to much talk with you. Who knows you do not realize that as long as you are a sharp, perhaps even going<br />win himself.<br />• Trust and Loyalty; you just hear the complaints of a friend, your next day's broadcast complaints as gossip the number of people. Trust and loyalty of its influence on the quality of your friendship. Sense of empathy, loyalty, its own demands. You do not have to approve any say your best friend. But at least you have the attitude that consistent. If you like the wind that followed you anywhere feel comfortable, you are nothing more than a seasonal friend.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-40277370345740587922010-01-24T21:08:00.000-08:002010-01-24T21:11:54.265-08:00Love and Friendship<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iwcsB5WXmJvvFMWot3OeY9ohuI0hzjnNzQksTbXDCFNu9YdhqNzBLJ3kUS1yDzW3xwjqNjTmL1oHcKKARgglvBiXO4OhhjVCjJbRMELCnaYLyMnFBHOFhhgb9K-_FMXP-vgPA8GxZ50/s1600-h/fiendship.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iwcsB5WXmJvvFMWot3OeY9ohuI0hzjnNzQksTbXDCFNu9YdhqNzBLJ3kUS1yDzW3xwjqNjTmL1oHcKKARgglvBiXO4OhhjVCjJbRMELCnaYLyMnFBHOFhhgb9K-_FMXP-vgPA8GxZ50/s320/fiendship.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430540736149642626" /></a><br />Can you imagine Friendship without love? Friendship and Love is the best friend, Friendship always at his side of Love. And where are Friendship, Love is always smiling and never leave the Friendship. On one day, first Friendship and Love has made him no more attention because Love and Friendship considered more attractive than himself.<br /><br />"Hmmm ... if there is no love, maybe I'll become more famous, and more people pay attention to me." the Friendship thinking.<br /><br />Since that day against Love and Friendship. When Love playing with Friendship as always, Friendship will stay away from Love. When asked why Friendship and Love away from him, Friendship just turned and left in circulation size. <br /><br />Grief went up to Love and Love could not hold back her tears and hard crying. Sadness only be stunned at the loss of Love best friend. A few days without Love, Friendship first meeting along with Disappointed, Despair, Anger and Hatred. Friendship began to lose the sweet nature and people started to not like Friendship. Friendship began shunned and no longer liked. Although beautiful friendship, but its first sickening. <div class="fullpost"><br />Friendship open minded itself is no longer desirable because many people are away from it. Friendship began to regret it, and that's when sadness see Friendship, and submit to Wordpress Friendship Love is in grief. <br /><br />Love immediately ran and went to Friendship. When Friendship saw Love approached him, with tears even vomit Friendship thousand regrets leaving Love. Shorten the story, Friendship and Love back to being a good friend. Friendship cloning back to the fun and love was returned, smiling brightly. Everyone saw the two friends returned either as a blessing and gift in life. <br /><br />Can Friendship without Love? Can Love without friendship? Often encountered many people who try separating friendship and love because they think, "If friendship is embroidered with love, would be so difficult!" Especially for those who establish friendship between men and women. Friendship is a beautiful form of the relationship between humans, where Love is here to give a smile and Friendship coloring. <br /><br />Without Love, Friendship may be filled with Angry, Hate, Anger and the various things that make no more beautiful friendship. Stop making the line between Love and Friendship, let them remain a good friend. Which must be corrected is not destroy Love and Friendship, Love is beautify like your friendship. <br /><br />Love is often just scapegoat as destroyer of friendship. BIG WRONG! Should the existence of Love, Friendship will be more fun. My friends who are in a Friendship, fill your friendship with love, give love the best for your friend. My friends who are experiencing turmoil in friendship, love but do not blame. improve friendship with love love will cover all the mistakes, forgive easily, and make everything impossible possible. <br /><br />My friends who do not understand the meaning of friendship try to start a friendship, because with your friendship will be more mature, not selfish and learn to understand, that your things do not always happen according to our wishes. My friends who are disappointed with Friendship, ponder, "Do I have to live Friendship correctly?" And understand the meaning of the friendship also please try for your life. Desire, passion, understanding, maturity, gentleness and good things will you find in friendship<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-70690083317428212152010-01-08T05:32:00.000-08:002010-01-08T05:39:38.125-08:00understanding jealousy women<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-vqCuBHf4B6sEciAvQRyhYIMQLoe4x9z_co81zTqsFYHLtGOzfZhh0HKArL7ZfM4REQFOoPvxanWnuZ9YypaNDsAdmn56U2kL50o4fI_f1PXsDLVfSModBIfEbSYnaN5EAGGZjWqRKo/s1600-h/women-jealousy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-vqCuBHf4B6sEciAvQRyhYIMQLoe4x9z_co81zTqsFYHLtGOzfZhh0HKArL7ZfM4REQFOoPvxanWnuZ9YypaNDsAdmn56U2kL50o4fI_f1PXsDLVfSModBIfEbSYnaN5EAGGZjWqRKo/s320/women-jealousy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424362805970145506" /></a><br />Most men say they do not understand what is actually demanded by the women jealous. According to them, even though what they do, they are jealous wife would jealous. Reviewed from one angle, jealousy is a manifestation of loss of feel safe in the heart of the Mundo. Loss of taste secure not only cause jealousy, but also remove the sense of satisfaction.<br /><br />According to experts pikologi relationship, for a woman, when he married, he got satisfaction from two sources. Resource satisfaction is the first female behavior to her husband. In other words, he got satisfaction from the way her husband treated himself. Each time she treats her husband with a positive way, then women feel very satisfied. For example, the act of helping his wife wash dishes then eating behavior is positive. Every time the husband washing dishes after meals, then the wife feel very satisfied. This means, for the satisfaction of wives, men are encouraged to make a lot of things that are positive.<br /><br />The second source of satisfaction that comes from women meaning given by him over her husband's behavior. Any act of man is given meaning and value of high sense of satisfaction by women mecipta higher for women. As a result, every time a husband do such acts, then his wife feel very satisfied. For example, men act praised her cooking and given meaning by the high wife. Every time a husband praised her cooking, so she felt very satisfied. This means that men need to know the various behaviors husband is given a high value and meaning by his wife, and<br />they are encouraged to show many types of behavior to the wife.<br /><br />Husbands do various things. Every thing done is given meaning and value by his wife. When the matter is given a high value, each time the husband doing it to themselves to the wife, the wife of achieving personal satisfaction very high. Similarly to the contrary. Every time my husband do things that are rated low by his wife, the wife will not feel very satisfied. For example, the act back later rated very low by women, each man was back late, she will not feel very satisfied.<div class="fullpost">But men want to know, how do women give a high value or low value to the acts and behavior husband? Here's how women give meaning and value to the behavior of their husbands. Part of what is done by men, they only do it with wife only. Partly they will never do so with the wife. While there are things they do well with the wife or with others.<br /><br />Here is the criteria used by women to provide high or low value on every husband's behavior:<br /><br />1. Exclusively with wives<br />For women, her husband's behavior that is exclusive, ie it is only done by a husband with one wife only, rated very high by women. Examples of acts performed exclusively by men with only his wife is sex. So, all sexual behavior that the husband is given the value very high by the wife during sexual behavior is only done by the husband to the wife only. Behavior including sexual behavior that accompanies all sexual desire, sexual intercourse as an act with the highest value. That's why every time her husband commits acts on sexual wife, the wife of achieving very high satisfaction.<br /><br />Study experts find other men who act exclusively by women is considered:<br /><br />a. Conversation friendly and talked a long time<br /><br />Many men think they can act with women who become close friends and men consider their acts should not be cause taste suspicious wife in their hearts. However, for women to act can only be done by men with only his wife, not with any other women. That's why a strong woman was jealous when her husband spend a long conversation and talked friendly with other women, regardless of who the woman to her husband.<br /><br />b. Hollow-tease, joking and laughing laughing senda<br /><br />For women this also acts can only be done by men with only his wife, not with any other women. That's why this act creates a very strong feeling of jealousy in the hearts of women.<br /><br />c. Vent personal problems<br /><br />For women, the husband should not vent his personal feelings and problems to other women except herself. Therefore this act creates a very strong feeling of jealousy.<br /><br />When men perform behaviors that should be very exclusive with other women, the value of behavior-junam fell sharply in the eyes of the wife. To the wife, is behavior that no longer carry the same meaning and satisfaction as first. Therefore, any behavior that caused her husband's sexual act is now no longer an exclusive with him, it caused a strong reaction from the jealous wife.<br /><br />2. Exclusive without wife<br /><br />Men also do various things with others but never with his wife. For example, men do not play ball with his wife. Behavior that the husband had never made her a low value given by the wife. So, the act of playing football with her husband, men do not raise jealous wife.<br /><br />3. Inclusive<br /><br />Sometimes men do good deeds with his wife, or with others. For example the act of eating. Act of eating is done by good men with his wife and also with others. The acts of this type have rated a moderate to high. Every time a husband eat with his wife, the wife feel happy medium. So act her husband sat eating with friends semeja women sekerjanya jealous reaction causing a moderate forces.<br /><br />This is the basic sense of satisfaction to the wife. When a behavior that first exclusive with him, now also made by her husband with another woman, then the value of behavior is down, or disappear altogether. As a result, her behavior is no longer satisfying to him. For example, if menciumnya her husband, she felt very satisfied because the act is exclusive. When her husband also kissed another woman, he would feel very jealous. Consequently, when her husband kissed her, kissing her husband was no longer satisfying.<br /><br />That's why, after a man married other sex no longer give a similar satisfaction similar to the wife of her parents. In fact, it may not provide any satisfaction for him, because now no longer sexual behavior exclusively with her husband that one. Now her husband is also doing sexual behavior with other women. These factors make the elderly decreased sexual desire wife or lost altogether when she knew that her husband having sex with any other women. So, even if one man is still giving the same sex to his wife, the wife no longer achieving the same favor, because now the value of her husband's sexual behavior has been own very low, or removed altogether.<br /><br />But what factors actually reduce or eliminate the value of the husband's behavior?<br /><br />1. Changes in interpretation<br /><br />Value is down because after her husband have sex with other women, now the wife give different interpretations to all her husband's behavior. Change the interpretation that the lower value.<br /><br />If the first husband to buy batik wife and giving it interpreted by the wife as "her husband Mark love to himself", but after her husband married another, now the wife says "He conjunction with batik because he wants to close the sense of guilt." Interpretations such as that which causes wife no longer get satisfaction from the same cloth is batik.<br /><br />2. Rating changes<br /><br />Satisfaction women also lost because of the ways he is currently evaluating its relationship with her husband. Value is changed when she knew that her husband has a relationship with another woman. First wife feel satisfied with what is enjoyed in the marriage. Before he was satisfied because her husband cheating on him, he evaluates the quality of relationship without comparing with other relationships. Now she believes her husband's relationship with her husband not as good relationships with other women. Due to the comparison, the wife believes he did not enjoy the best relationship that is enjoyed by her husband with the woman. She believes that her husband now enjoy more satisfaction with women that, while he himself felt he was not one's husband. He also believes her husband<br />not satisfied with herself and how her husband is happy with her.<br /><br />3. Negative predictive<br /><br />With such perceptions, the wife convinced her husband will invest more into the relationship with other women. In fact he believes it is likely her husband will leave her completely. That's why he now no longer enjoy the feel satisfied with the relationship with her husband, although her husband is still giving the same treatment as first.<br /><br />4. Change perceptions<br /><br />Feeling discontent also comes from the perception that her husband now have less love, joy-even her husband says it is not true. Dissatisfaction that comes from feeling that he is now isolated and out of part of her husband's activities. In other words, he now knows that sometimes her activities where he has not given a place at all, such as when her husband was with other women.<br /><br />He also also suggests that in certain activities, her husband get more pleasure when the activity is done with her. Next, he was not satisfied any more with that received from her husband because now things are no longer an outlet for him.<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-82893294858898129912009-12-12T18:43:00.000-08:002009-12-12T21:18:54.743-08:00walnut tree<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvH2yaeB4E7ZTl7gNsbJ-Lu98AcTjBuakI3R4MS0ltPBukqPnNgmLBu689TSmyeD9PPOTgadxa1QwqzCZd2-27SXGqqb98LC5s4kB_r7I89DDQfuQy3KaG4LuOH4YAxM2LeDNSzQ3hlp4/s1600-h/shadow-photography-16.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvH2yaeB4E7ZTl7gNsbJ-Lu98AcTjBuakI3R4MS0ltPBukqPnNgmLBu689TSmyeD9PPOTgadxa1QwqzCZd2-27SXGqqb98LC5s4kB_r7I89DDQfuQy3KaG4LuOH4YAxM2LeDNSzQ3hlp4/s320/shadow-photography-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414547190110131474" /></a><br />A cucumber farmer was resting under the shade of big walnut tree. he look in to the sky, appreciate The God ceatures. he took to the Walnut trees studied a large branches, leaves shade and he began to think, God must be wrong with the tree design. He compared the tree he planted cucumbers, a small trunk, even standing alone is not capable, just creeping over the ground, but his hundreds of times the amount of walnut. God should have designed walnut larger cousin.<div class="fullpost"><br />He was getting sleepy because the wind was blowing and walnut trees as dancing in the wind and grain walnut fell to the his bald head. Well ... he said, "God is true, he wrote a great designer and there is nothing wrong".<br />(Good thing God created was a small walnut, try if you like durian large, what non-burst head !!??)<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-16848564971190698612009-08-01T16:45:00.000-07:002009-08-01T16:49:59.373-07:00Never Give Up<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihlASMHEuBwnFHicZJ9TNSUA__9YKnWeZN9wlLSQYjcS09f8Gqnai6zf1Ud7DtwIg9RW0WvD1NdGsP40IOBnaYNhWK24f1BvmL92_wPowmbiI883KcBA24f-pElzm71AUh7sxkQwc5Sfg/s1600-h/verncolma.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihlASMHEuBwnFHicZJ9TNSUA__9YKnWeZN9wlLSQYjcS09f8Gqnai6zf1Ud7DtwIg9RW0WvD1NdGsP40IOBnaYNhWK24f1BvmL92_wPowmbiI883KcBA24f-pElzm71AUh7sxkQwc5Sfg/s320/verncolma.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365146828817975698" /></a><br />Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.<br /><br />Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer.<br /><br />Colonel Sanders had the construction of a new road put him out of business in 1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs and spices. Seven years later, at the age of 75, Colonel Sanders sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin' $15 million!<br /><br />Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.<br /><br />Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, “I was considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.<br /><br />Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. His teacher described him as “mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was expelled and refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School. The University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertation as being irrelevant and fanciful.<div class="fullpost"><br />The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing movies in film history.<br /><br />Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15 out of 22 in chemistry.<br /><br />When NFL running back Herschel Walker was in junior high school, he wanted to play football, but the coach told him he was too small. He advised young Herschel to go out for track instead. Never one to give up, he ignored the coach's advice and began an intensive training program to build himself up. Only a few years later, Herschel Walker won the Heisman trophy.<br /><br />When General Douglas MacArthur applied for admission to West Point, he was turned down, not once but twice. But he tried a third time, was accepted and marched into the history books.<br /><br />After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, “Can’t act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!” Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.<br /><br />The father of the sculptor Rodin [The Thinker Statue] said, “I have an idiot for a son.” Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable.<br /><br />Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.<br /><br />Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, before Macmillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than seven million copies in the U.S. alone.<br /><br />Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone with the Wind was turned down by more than twenty-five publishers.<br /><br />Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H, only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Morrow decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a blockbusting movie and highly successful television series.<br /><br />When the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was completed, it was turned down by thirty-three publishers in New York and another ninety at the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim, California, before Health Communications, Inc., finally agreed to publish it. The major New York publishers said, "It is too nicey-nice" and "Nobody wants to read a book of short little stories." Since that time more than 8 million copies of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book have been sold. The series, which has grown to thirty-two titles, in thirty-one languages, has sold more than 53 million copies.<br /><br />In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere… son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.” Elvis Presley went on to become the most popular singer in America.<br /><br />Dr. Seuss' first children's book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The twenty-eighth publisher, Vanguard press, sold six million copies of the book.<br /><br />Never give up believing in yourself!!!<br /><br /><br />The above inspirational stories were compiled from two excellent books by Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen:<br />Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul and A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul <br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-67596335542215053842009-03-30T02:58:00.000-07:002009-03-30T03:02:21.210-07:00Maintain a loving human relationship with a partner<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcycl4Og5LRaPCcGT_7InWkR1mWqs78Ma1xu0oWgjdFz70hTExtnS8623XZS_RWaUSV7NcYTZF1kA3VQtNt7xYe72ueD-OG8eCi7hxphKwhHyDsq5s3EWWTuddk8olMSZlt2dYsqR-Nro/s1600-h/200191292848.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcycl4Og5LRaPCcGT_7InWkR1mWqs78Ma1xu0oWgjdFz70hTExtnS8623XZS_RWaUSV7NcYTZF1kA3VQtNt7xYe72ueD-OG8eCi7hxphKwhHyDsq5s3EWWTuddk8olMSZlt2dYsqR-Nro/s320/200191292848.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318918984944216882" /></a><br />True love can only flow when both partners permanently are open for God ! but a relationship to persist all troubles of life, all downs, all "bad times" all wars and crisis of creation needs more than just a bare "IDEA" of "I love you".<br /><br />a relationship of love - with friends or with your beloved "one and only" living partner - is like a flower or a tree. it needs "food" and loving care and time to grow strong and become of lasting nature - tested by hurricanes and darkness of life.<br />let's have a look at a tree, a walnut tree, for example.<br /><br /> * first you take a strong and good looking walnut and put it in a suitable place in a suitable soil<br /> * then you assure no one else is interfering with that location - you protect the location<br /> * then you assure that there is always sufficient sunlight, fresh air and permanently moist soil as needed and you wait while water - air and sun is acting - together with all the cosmic forces from God<br /> * after a few weeks or month you may see the sprout coming out of the surface - and the walnut becomes NOW even more fragile. for a long period of time and will have many natural enemies, beetles, cows, wild rabbits and many other animals may like to feed on that young sprout of a walnut tree.<br /> * it grows centimeter by centimeter during the first year and may reach 20cm or 30cm or more by the end of the first year.<br /> * year after year it will grow and get stronger - but it always needs on a VERY regular basis - scheduled by nature's need - water, sun, air and many minerals and other nutrition.<br /> * after 10 to 15 years this tree may hopefully start to have the first fruits - walnuts<br /> * with 20 - 30 years such a tree may be strong enough for many children to climb up and play without causing any permanent damage to that tree.<br /><div class="fullpost"><br />what is all involved in ANY tree or flower or plant to grow and prosper and blossom or carry fruits - and how does such a herbal example compare to human relationship ?<br /><br />things we never imagine and think of when we all enjoy nature. dozens of minerals ( vitamins ), water of particular quality, rain for the leaves, microorganisms, living and clean soil of particular quality, Prana ( cosmic life force ), direct personal attention, supervision, protection and care if every tree shall survive and grow as well as possible ...<br />A relationship needs to meet or supply the basic needs of each human - man or women<br />when you realize how much tender loving care one single plant needs if you want to assure that each single plant survives - then you get an idea how much daily love and care is needed to maintain a relationship and let it grow stronger than all evil forces around - here on earth as well as in all creation - for now and all eternity.<br /><br />take care of all your beloved ones - remember - in all creation survival is but a question of the strength and purity of your love - love needs to flow to grow - love needs to be dynamic and varied - but always as direct as possible.<br /><br />here on earth - a relationship without daily care and direct love is like a young plant in the desert of Sahara in a hot and cold sand-storm. no chance to survive or even grow strong. a relationship without daily mutual experiences and loving care is scheduled to break apart.<br /><br />... when is just a question of how much loveless relationship you can "tolerate" before your hunger for true love causes you to be honest and loyal to your innermost being and to find the strength to re-orient yourself toward a new relationship - focusing on love and nothing but divine love in all your mutual efforts of life.<br />Tribute to Cyberspace Ashram<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-60640008720848112782009-03-06T01:47:00.000-08:002009-03-06T02:11:17.202-08:00Helping a friend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjneziQxQfprVLtKnCahnDaQyV5LnI71ufwbch15wKA1fl5ifw2kM37QCMr_0NpSh8AuKT6l1NB8cDJX6r6ve6pCw21MCZfJzXG6W320QMEQ2K3sSXFPM-5PJkc7Lyq5HCs1uH24LwB0W4/s1600-h/HelpUslogo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjneziQxQfprVLtKnCahnDaQyV5LnI71ufwbch15wKA1fl5ifw2kM37QCMr_0NpSh8AuKT6l1NB8cDJX6r6ve6pCw21MCZfJzXG6W320QMEQ2K3sSXFPM-5PJkc7Lyq5HCs1uH24LwB0W4/s320/HelpUslogo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310015243495742786" /></a><br />These tips come from a good friend for sharing. hopefully can be useful for all.<br />How do you know if a friend's problem is too big or serious for you to be dealing with alone? One thing to consider is whether the help you give to your friend actually results in a change in the situation for them. Some problems like; depression, low self esteem, eating disorders, or substance abuse problems don?t usually change as a result of a friend?s support alone. What can happen is that the friend will try to help, but over time they can begin to feel over-extended or burned out from helping. They can feel overwhelmed and out of control themselves because their work is suffering, or they begin to feel helpless because nothing they seem to say or do makes a difference. They can also end up wanting to avoid their friend because their friend needs so much from them and resenting the time they do spend with them. Does this sound familiar to you? There?s nothing about this situation that says you are a bad friend or that the person with the problems is bad themselves. What it means is that the problems the friend has requires more than friendship alone can provide.<div class="fullpost"><br />If you have a friend who exhibits any of the following signs of a problem:<br /><br /> * Withdrawal from people<br /> * Loss of interest in activities<br /> * Can?t concentrate<br /> * Significant change in their weight<br /> * Feeling helpless<br /> * Talk about death or suicide<br /> * Problems with eating/sleeping<br /> * Unusual mood swings<br /> * Chronic low self esteem<br /> * Excessive video game playing<br /> * Harmful use of alcohol or other drugs<br /> * Self-harm<br /> * Preoccupation with food or exercise<br /> * Overly restrictive or unusual eating habits<br /> * Acts in a bizarre or paranoid manner<br /> * Talking incoherently or about very odd things, such as having special powers<br /><br />Or if you feel any of the following:<br /><br /> * Feeling responsible for the other person<br /> * Feeling over-extended/burned out<br /> * Feeling pressure to solve his/her problems<br /> * Feeling that the problem is too much for you to handle<br /> * You notice that the problem keeps coming back<br /> * You avoid this person or feel nervous around them<br />Things You Can Do To Help A Friend<br /><br /> 1. Listen.<br />People underestimate the power of just listening without giving judgment or advice. Don't rush to offer solutions or to "fix" the problem.<br /> 2. Understand. <br />Reflect back what you heard the person say so they know that they are understood. Acknowledge that the situation must be stressful/hard.<br /> 3. Help the person get moving. <br />If there is something that your friend can do to change the situation, encourage them to address the problem now- before things get worse. (E.g. talk to the person they are mad at; get some tutoring, etc.)<br /> 4. If things don't change for your friend-help them to get help. Point out how all of their best efforts and yours haven't resulted in things changing for them (e.g. they are still depressed) and it's time to try something different.<br /> 5. Ask them if they have considered talking to someone <br />If they have thought about talking to someone but haven't, ask why they haven't? They probably have a specific reason (e.g. feel they would be weak, had a bad experience with a counselor before) and you can help them get past their own reservations about getting help (Reassure them: it's not weak to talk to a counselor, even though they had a bad experience before they could have a good one now, it's worth a try).<br /> 6. Encourage them to talk to someone at least once. This may help them get past the sense of starting something too big.<br /> 7. After they have talked to someone, ask them how things went. This lets your friend know you are still interested in them and it's still ok to talk about how things are going for them.<br /> 8. Respect their need for privacy. Your friend may want to share a lot or only a little about how things went.<br /> 9. Be encouraging. It took some time for the person to get to the place they are at, it will take some time to have things change. Help them focus on the positive- how did they feel about talking? How did they feel about the person they spoke with? Be encouraging of their continuing to seek help.<br /> 10. Keep in touch with your friend over time. Just because they are getting help doesn't mean they don't still need you-as a friend.<br /> 11. If your friend continues to have problems. Check in with them over time on how things are going. Be honest with them if you remain concerned. The most important thing is to have the kind of relationship where you can talk with one another about what is going on. Don't be critical, judgmental or apply too much pressure-just let your friend know if you remain concerned or become more concerned.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-51065389315406629062009-03-03T16:14:00.000-08:002009-03-03T16:50:06.482-08:00The Butterfly<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9ER8tPpo0h6QLi-S1Jh5JdG1b0I1RPxZPOye2VSu26WBJRJhnwk7eSdXMLW-IkcBvADRcLsnUu0MLxKrnqRlFPgNLs13F_THkkZ7R5kDJ3pjdLAegbeGhoe5rT3LfMXBb7EkjmV-3tU/s1600-h/Butterfly_Tattoo1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9ER8tPpo0h6QLi-S1Jh5JdG1b0I1RPxZPOye2VSu26WBJRJhnwk7eSdXMLW-IkcBvADRcLsnUu0MLxKrnqRlFPgNLs13F_THkkZ7R5kDJ3pjdLAegbeGhoe5rT3LfMXBb7EkjmV-3tU/s320/Butterfly_Tattoo1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120625263133938" /></a><br />A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.<br /><br />So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.<br /><br />The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.<br /><br />The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.<div class="fullpost"><br />Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.<br /><br />What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.<br />Author : Unknown<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-85369088074143583292009-02-26T18:35:00.000-08:002009-02-26T18:38:35.009-08:00A True Friend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVfI47s4O2peKcXPcX2SyvUcljxy_VUMzVbO2_kD7bhjsv2gnnBHWHh65mzz_X5kavM5fP_gHd-n6bqm91TsMb5J7DYYqoldzhB6Y-QzBJMGk8nVd1w6_fF8g0yMziowjRvK9rUR_aL0/s1600-h/t.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVfI47s4O2peKcXPcX2SyvUcljxy_VUMzVbO2_kD7bhjsv2gnnBHWHh65mzz_X5kavM5fP_gHd-n6bqm91TsMb5J7DYYqoldzhB6Y-QzBJMGk8nVd1w6_fF8g0yMziowjRvK9rUR_aL0/s320/t.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307300967563489506" /></a><br />In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day one fellow met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?". "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test.". "Triple filter?". "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and...". "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't know if it's true or not.<div class="fullpost"><br />Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?" . "No, on the contrary...". "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?" "No, not really." "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"<br /><br />Lesson:<br />Well we can always participate in loose talks to curb our boredom. But when it comes to you friends its not worth it. Always avoid talking behind the back about your near and dear friends.<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-53398806856418695402009-02-25T13:02:00.000-08:002009-02-25T13:07:21.771-08:00Anatomy of Friendship<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAce0G59B9slvTCC8mK6tF4ik7vlQkS9-nhdplXhRbTefgiQopEzg9HtrNFPJY7G0uhteZw3UVz2YyYpoj9QjsRjfBSt-rV6dBPtMlv1cDpe6z36tpSmspfgsvC2XKJwauPt8_aPrp2o/s1600-h/09cc4.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAce0G59B9slvTCC8mK6tF4ik7vlQkS9-nhdplXhRbTefgiQopEzg9HtrNFPJY7G0uhteZw3UVz2YyYpoj9QjsRjfBSt-rV6dBPtMlv1cDpe6z36tpSmspfgsvC2XKJwauPt8_aPrp2o/s320/09cc4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306844555739983154" /></a><br />My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would take a guess at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mommy."<br /><br />She said, "No. Many people are deaf. But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon."<br /><br />Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first attempt, I had contemplated the correct answer. So this time I told her, "Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes."<br /><br />She looked at me and told me, "You are learning fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind."<br /><br />Stumped again, I continued my quest for knowledge and over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, "No. But you are getting smarter every year, my child."<br /><br />Then last year, my grandpa died. Everybody was hurt. Everybody was crying. Even my father cried. I remember that especially because it was only the second time I saw him cry. My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our final goodbye to Grandpa. She asked me, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?"<br /><br />I was shocked when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a game between her and me. She saw the confusion on my face and told me, "This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived in our life. For every body part you gave me in the past, I have told you were wrong and I have given you an example why. But today is the day you need to learn this important lesson."<div class="fullpost"><br />She looked down at me as only a mother can. I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, "My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder."<br /><br />I asked, "Is it because it holds up my head?"<br /><br />She replied, "No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or a loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need it."<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-83580072499927546562009-02-19T23:33:00.000-08:002009-02-19T23:47:47.779-08:00meaning-of-friendship<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH9fIwDKqiHve1ozcQnxSjjh8TNQPN9c6Kab5sGyORtP2g_QJKvQ_4cdusGKnGoMxq4i1hlugya8oWiSPlLGva83VWzoq7qACkjSFbGTt7athidxQWfTbvZdu-Mq-jrnfPwoorQJ_UUk/s1600-h/Cuties.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH9fIwDKqiHve1ozcQnxSjjh8TNQPN9c6Kab5sGyORtP2g_QJKvQ_4cdusGKnGoMxq4i1hlugya8oWiSPlLGva83VWzoq7qACkjSFbGTt7athidxQWfTbvZdu-Mq-jrnfPwoorQJ_UUk/s320/Cuties.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304780793121342210" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.timepassmails.com/2008/11/meaning-of-friendship.html">meaning-of-friendship</a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">I wish you enough</span><br />At an airport I overheard a father and<br />daughter in their last moments<br />together. They had announced her<br />departure and standing near the<br />security gate, they hugged and he said,<br />"I love you, I wish you enough."<br /><br />She in turn said, "Daddy, our life together<br />has been more than enough.<br />Your love is all I ever needed,<br />I wish you enough, too, Daddy."<br /><br />They kissed and she left. He walked over<br />toward the window where I was<br />seated. Standing there I could see he<br />wanted and needed to cry. I tried not<br />to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed<br />me in by asking, "Did you<br />ever say good-bye to someone<br />knowing it would be forever?"<br /><div class="fullpost"><br />"Yes, I have," I replied, "forgive me<br />for asking, but why is this a<br />forever good-bye?" I asked.<br /><br />"I am old and she lives much too far away.<br />I have challenges ahead and<br />the reality is, the next trip back<br />would be for my funeral," he said.<br /><br />"When you were saying good-bye I heard you<br />say, 'I wish you enough. "May<br />I ask what that means?"<br /><br />He began to smile. "That's a wish that<br />has been handed down from other<br />generations. My parents used to say<br />it to everyone." He paused for a<br />moment and looking up as if trying to remember<br />it in detail, he smiled even more.<br /><br />"When we said 'I wish you enough,' we<br />were wanting the other person to<br />have a life filled with just enough<br />good things to sustain them," he<br />continued and then turning toward me<br />he shared the following as if he were<br />reciting it from memory.<br /><br />I wish you enough sun to keep your<br />attitude bright. I wish you enough<br />rain to appreciate the sun more. I<br />wish you enough happiness to keep your<br />spirit alive. I wish you enough pain<br />so that the smallest joys in life appear<br />much bigger. I wish you enough gain<br />to satisfy your wanting. I wish you<br />enough loss to appreciate all that you<br />possess. I wish enough "Hello's" to get<br />you through the final "Good-bye."<br /><br />Tears filled his eyes and he walked away.<br /><br />My friend, I wish you enough!<br />So my friends, I WISH YOU ENOUGH!!!!!<br />Written by Bob Perks<br /><br />Pass this on to wish your friends<br />ENOUGH!!!<br />DON'T FORGET FAMILY AND<br />CO-WORKERS AS WELL!!! <br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-62604165016805707762009-02-17T05:10:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:09:10.315-08:00Exploring the Meaning of Friendship<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE8UtEchC4W0CVCGTf6gcjawl0ZdywcM1sB5zXmnLd-3c5my8_Qc2wgi8oZsfS40yYgO4lscTHeG9hmhHd8EFVGX75CH4YqbGbsJfVc1WGqvp4OTaaTnhr6NADAFow0qWC24wL84wVA8/s1600-h/11vb9.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE8UtEchC4W0CVCGTf6gcjawl0ZdywcM1sB5zXmnLd-3c5my8_Qc2wgi8oZsfS40yYgO4lscTHeG9hmhHd8EFVGX75CH4YqbGbsJfVc1WGqvp4OTaaTnhr6NADAFow0qWC24wL84wVA8/s320/11vb9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303876322852999522" /></a><br />Ever since “the shot heard round the world” was fired at Concord in 1775, that quaint town in the sleepy Massachusetts countryside has been the unlikely nest of revolutionary fervor. There, in the 1830s, a small group of thinkers, led by a tall gentleman with mutton chop sideburns, criticized Christianity and its sibling religions for claiming that they alone could put people in touch with the divine.<br /><br />That dignified figure was the ex-minister Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the Transcendentalist movement. In crowded lecture halls, Emerson told audiences to shake off their Calvinist guilt and look to nature, not Scripture, for “the ideal and holy life.” In “My Friend, My Friend,” Harmon Smith revisits that oft-told story of the philosophical flowering of 19th century New England, but focuses his attention exclusively on Emerson and Henry David Thoreau during their long, sometimes strained relationship.<br /><br />Smith suggests that, while they urged the public to “find God in nature,” privately both men were engaged in another hunt: to understand the meaning of friendship. Emerson was active, dynamic, charismatic; Thoreau was often combative, moody–and yet their friendship endured for three decades until Thoreau’s death at 45 from tuberculosis. “We are attracted toward a particular person,” Thoreau once said, “but no one has discovered the laws of this attraction.” Not a study of their writings, Smith’s book thoughtfully renders their attempt to find ideal friendship, but without melodrama or excessive psychologizing.<br /><br />The book opens in 1834 with Emerson’s move to Concord with his wife, Lidian. Years before, Emerson had lost his young, tubercular first wife, Ellen, and had undergone a religious crisis. He had resigned his pastorate as a Unitarian minister in Boston–something Ellen’s estate enabled him to do. Smith describes him as ill-matched with Lidian, who missed the bustle of Boston. Seeking companionship elsewhere, he read some poetry by Thoreau, then a Harvard senior, and recognized him as someone “whose mode of perception followed the same patterns as his own.”<div class="fullpost"><br /> Emerson cultivated many friendships in his lifetime, particularly with young men of intellectual promise, and Smith shows how Thoreau vied with rivals like William Ellery Channing and Samuel Gray Ward for the Concord sage’s attention. Emerson’s personality could be hard to read; coolness and detachment alternated with sudden, solicitous desires to help people.<br /><br />But among the dilettantes who flocked around him, Emerson enjoyed the solitary Thoreau. Thoreau impressed him with his conversation and a mystical ability to “transcend the humdrum experience of life.” Emerson even invited him, at two different times, to live with his family. As the men grew older, however, their mentor-disciple relationship wore on Thoreau. The poet J.R. Lowell stung him when he wrote that Thoreau’s ideas were derivative and asked, “With good fruit of your own, can’t you let neighbor Emerson’s orchards alone?”<br /><br />A competitive spirit inevitably arose between them–their journals mark the change, especially in the phrases they used to describe each other. Early in the friendship, Thoreau refers to Emerson as “my real brother” and later, as Emerson’s success and preoccupations grew, to Emerson’s “diabolical formality” which made it so that “I cannot get within 10 feet of [him].” Emerson’s early references to “Henry young and brave” are eclipsed by complaints about Thoreau’s gloominess, his inability to find a niche or publish a successful book, not to mention his hovering presence as a house guest. (One can’t help but chuckle when Smith writes, “Emerson agreed readily … that Henry build a one-room house” on Emerson’s property at Walden pond.)<br /><br />Smith’s account of the Walden years is sure to make the metropolis dweller yearn for the days when a person could mingle with merchants in the marketplace and, just down the lane, find the perfect solitude of a holy hermit. Ultimately, Smith decides, the answer to why their friendship endured lies in the fact that petty irritations and misunderstandings were overcome by Emerson’s and Thoreau’s recognition of each other’s genius. Illness, too, proved to unite them: Smith tells how Emerson sat at Thoreau’s bedside, reading to him and reporting the sighting of “the first purple finch of spring” and where the ice had broken on Walden pond.<br /><br />“My Friend, My Friend” abruptly ends with Emerson’s eulogy at Thoreau’s funeral in 1862. Smith tells a good story, though it is even better when read alongside a study with a larger context, like Carlos Baker’s “Emerson Among the Eccentrics.” Read alone, however, it is an honorable tribute to the greatness of these two men, especially Emerson: A man must be great if, after the untimely loss of many loved ones (including his 5-year-old son, Waldo), he can still preach that we live in a benevolent universe.<br />source at <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/writers/nick-owchar">nick-owchar</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-62744549029314215822009-01-31T01:53:00.000-08:002009-01-31T02:01:07.055-08:00Why Friends Lie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvc6IELB01tu8thKRUtW7QohPuaUyHwtvoqoep0hgLkaTYmRncFeSL8CKSZuXy7L7bFgDrd-y12e4NN43g04seBolCAYDsmmkQ-vodrUB8FGBCEw7kDHTkpP7gO4H4aRZIKjKN32dZZZE/s1600-h/10gh6.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvc6IELB01tu8thKRUtW7QohPuaUyHwtvoqoep0hgLkaTYmRncFeSL8CKSZuXy7L7bFgDrd-y12e4NN43g04seBolCAYDsmmkQ-vodrUB8FGBCEw7kDHTkpP7gO4H4aRZIKjKN32dZZZE/s320/10gh6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297395701031350594" /></a><br />It is never easy when a friend doesn't tell the truth. This is something that hurts the person who has been lied to – and ultimately hurts the person who did the lying as well. Lying is never something that is easy to forget or even to forgive – but it is something that you should try to understand so that you can be a better friend, and so that you can be sure that you are treating your friends the right way.<br /><br />Sometimes, friends lie because of the way that they are feeling. If a friend feels inferior to another person, they might make up stories or situations so that they can get more attention. If your friend is lying to you because of this reason, it might be a good idea to talk to your friend about their feelings. If you can make them understand that they don’t need to feel inferior to you, or you can make them see that there are great things about them that they might not have thought of before, they will<div class="fullpost">be less likely to lie in the future.<br /><br />There are times when a friend might lie to avoid getting in trouble. For instance, if a friend has been doing something that they know you wouldn't approve of, or if they said or did something that they now regret, they might want to lie about it so that you won't be angry with them. The best way to handle this situation is to get to the bottom of what might have happened, and make sure that you are being honest with your friend about everything that you do. You should also be sure to talk to your friend about how much lying hurts, and how it makes you feel.<br /><br />Sometimes, a friend lies for other reasons. One of these reasons might be to protect your feelings. These lies are a little bit different because they might not be honest, but they are lies that are done with good intentions. For instance, if a friend wants to protect your feelings, they might lie about how you look, or how you behaved. These lies often come in the heat of the moment – for example if you feel that you acted out of control or in an embarrassing way, a friend might assure you that you shouldn't be embarrassed, or that you acted in a perfectly controlled manner, even if they might believe otherwise. This is something that might be done to protect you feelings – and most of the time, friends can tell when another friend is saying these things just to make them feel better. You must decide if truthfulness is more important that your feelings, in this type of situation.<br /><br />Although it might seem easy to do, and although you might have excuses for it, it is never a good idea to lie to a friend. Lying to your friends breaks trust, and breaks confidence in the friendship. Therefore, you want to be sure that you are always being truthful with your friends.<br /><br />Many times, friends don't lie to hurt each other, but to avoid being hurt themselves. Perhaps they know that the truth might make you mad at them, and they might want to avoid losing your friendship. The best way to handle lying is to talk to your friends calmly, and get the entire truth. Try to move forward, but always remember that you should be honest with your friend in order to make sure that they treat you the same way.<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-81050578785229785472009-01-12T22:17:00.000-08:002009-01-12T22:51:54.666-08:00Maintaining friendship is CrucialBest friends require one-on-one contact to survive. Telephone calls and getting together are musts for best friends to continue.<br />In fact, probably the quickest way to end a friendship is to neglect it and sever contact.Yet it is hard to make time in a busy day and busy life to maintain our friends. But you don't have to have hours to spare to maintain a friendship.Instead try the following to keep from neglecting your friends:<br /><br /> * Send frequent email. Email is a boon for a quick note.<br /> * Call once a week. Telephone calls do not take long.<br /> * Keep in touch through brief messages left on answering machines.<br /> * Send an occasional card. Funny and/or appropriate cards take minutes to choose and address.<br /> * Exercise together. We all have to exercise. It is more fun with a friend, plus, there is no better place for talking than a walk in the park.<br /> * Clean house together. This is another must do and two makes cleaning fun instead of boring.<br /> * Send pictures. A picture is still worth a thousand words.<br /> * Go to lunch at least once a month. More often would be better.<br /><br />Follow the advice of <div class="fullpost"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5621025.The_Survival_Guide_for_Today_s_Career_Woman">Victoria Rayner</a>, author of The Survival Guide for Today's Career Woman:<br /><br /> * Be a good listener; refrain from offering advice or moralizing.<br /> * Respect your friend's point of view. Different personalities can complement each other; it isn't always necessary to see eye to eye.<br /> * Never betray a trust. Trust, when violated, can ruin even the best friendship.<br /> * Support and praise your friends; ignore their failures and imperfections.<br /> * Never resent a friend's success. Instead, strive to admire her achievements.<br /><br />Flexibility is always important for maintaining friendships. Be understanding when your friend has a last minute change in plans. Learn to accept "I'm sorry to cancel, but we will have another time together Sunday."When paths begin to separate (you are married; he isn't or you have a baby; she is still childless) at forks in the road of life, that is the most important time of all to stay in touch with friends.<br />When there is conflict, it must be resolved for friendship to continue. Confrontation is one way to resolve conflict. Talking it out is another.<br />A cooling-off period is sometimes necessary when conflict has occurred. Once you reinitiate conflict, it may not even be necessary to discuss the conflict.<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-51429139742795157562009-01-04T15:30:00.000-08:002009-02-18T00:06:31.086-08:00You'll be in my heart - Phill Collins<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zAnOp5Qtpn0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zAnOp5Qtpn0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><a href="http://www.philcollins.co.uk/biog1.htm">Phil Collins</a> ascent to the status of one of the most successful pop<div class="fullpost">and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond was probably as much of a surprise to him as it was to many others. Balding and diminutive, Collins was almost 30 years old when his first solo single, "In the Air Tonight," became a number two hit in his native U.K. (the song was a Top 20 hit in the U.S.). Between 1984 and 1990, Collins had a string of 13 straight U.S. Top Ten hits.<br /><br />Long before any of that happened, however, Collins was a child actor/singer who appeared as The Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver! in 1964. (He also has a cameo in A Hard Day's Night, among other films.) He got his first break in music at the end of his teens, when he was chosen to be a replacement drummer in the British art-rock band <a href="http://www.genesis-music.com/">Genesis</a> in 1970. (Collins maintained a separate jazz career with the band Brand X, as well.) <a href="http://www.genesis-music.com/">Genesis</a> was fronted by singer Peter Gabriel. They had achieved a moderate level of success in the U.K. and the U.S., with elaborate concept albums, before Gabriel abruptly left in 1974. <a href="http://www.genesis-music.com/">Genesis</a> auditioned 400 singers without success, then decided to let Collins have a go.<br /><br />The result was a gradual simplifying of Genesis' sound and an increasing focus on Collins' expressive, throaty voice. And Then There Were Three. . . went gold in 1978, and Duke was even more successful. Collins made his debut solo album Face Value in 1981, which turned out to be a bigger hit than any <a href="http://www.genesis-music.com/">Genesis</a> album. It concentrated on Collins' voice, often in stark, haunting contexts such as the piano-and-drum dirge "In the Air Tonight," which sounded like something from John Lennon's debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.<br /><br />During the '80s, Collins balanced his continuing solo work with <a href="http://www.genesis-music.com/">Genesis</a> with enormous success. In 1992, Genesis released We Can't Dance and began an extensive tour. Upon its completion Collins released Both Sides in 1993, and the record became his first album not to produce a major hit single or go multi-platinum. In 1995, he announced that he was leaving Genesis permanently. The following year, he released Dance Into the Light. Although the album was a flop, its subsequent supporting tour was a success. The Hits collection followed in 1998, and a year later Collins made his first big-band record, Hot Night in Paris. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide.<br />if you like more related Friendship songs please vist <a href="http://www.friendship.com.au/media/songs/">here</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701080499199257525.post-24671095610903811142009-01-02T13:45:00.000-08:002009-01-02T13:51:19.194-08:00Friends For Life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fwedlRz0Iy0/SV6LuOgb0PI/AAAAAAAAAOA/7x0l5g-o0yM/s1600-h/pic05256.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fwedlRz0Iy0/SV6LuOgb0PI/AAAAAAAAAOA/7x0l5g-o0yM/s320/pic05256.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286816638863921394" /></a><br /><br />In kindergarten your idea of a good friend was the person who let you have the red crayon when all that was left was the ugly black one.<br />In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the scary halls.<br />In second grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you stand up to the class bully.<br />In third grade your idea of a good friend was the person who shared their lunch with you when you forgot yours on the bus.<br />In fourth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who was willing to switch square dancing partners in gym so you wouldn't have to be stuck do-si-do-ing with Nasty Nicky or Smelly Susan.<br />In fifth grade your idea of a friend was the person who saved a seat on the back of the bus for you.<br />In sixth grade your idea of a friend was the person who went up to Nicky or Susan, your new crush, and asked them to dance with you, so that if they said no you wouldn't have to be embarrassed.<br />In seventh grade your idea of a friend was<div class="fullpost">the person who let you copy the social studies homework from the night before that you had.<br />In eighth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pack up your stuffed animals and old baseball cards so that your room would be a "high schooler's" room, but didn't laugh at you when you finished and broke out into tears.<br />In ninth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to that "cool" party thrown by a senior so you wouldn't wind up being the only freshman there.<br />In tenth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who changed their schedule so you would have someone to sit with at lunch.<br />In eleventh grade your idea of a good friend was the person who gave you rides in their new car, convinced your parents that you shouldn't be grounded, consoled you when you broke up with Nick [or Glenn] or Susan, and found you a date to the prom.<br />In twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you pick out a college/university, assured you that you would get into that college/university, helped you deal with your parents who were having a hard time adjusting to the idea of letting you go...<br />At graduation your idea of a good friend was the person who was crying on the inside but managed the biggest smile one could give as they congratulated you.<br />The summer after twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you clean up the bottles from that party, helped you sneak out of the house when you just couldn't deal with your parents, assured you that now that you and Nick or you and Susan were back together, you could make it through anything, helped you pack up for university and just silently hugged you as you looked through blurry eyes at 18 years of memories you were leaving behind, and finally on those last days of childhood, went out of their way to give you reassurance that you would make it in college as well as you had these past 18 years, and most importantly sent you off to college knowing you were loved.<br />Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of the two choices, holds your hand when you're scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten, helps you put the past behind you but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, smiles for you when they are sad, helps you become a better person, and most importantly loves you!<br />Thank you for being a friend. No matter where we go or who we become, never forget who helped us get there.<br /><br />author : <a href="http://www.brosia.com/friend4life.html">Sharon Ogden</a>, Kentucky <br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif" alt="I heart FeedBurner" style="border:0"/></a></p></div>Nozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10315111586738960261noreply@blogger.com2