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Breathe… in and out… in and out…
That life in your breath, wetness in your heart When you… Drenched in the rain Held a puppy in your hands Felt that butterfly in your stomach looking at someone Felt that pang when someone betrayed you Held your first job offer in your hands Cried as an adult Felt a deep love in your heart Felt a scalding hurt in your heart Take it all in… All the successes All the failures All the love All the hurt All the friendship All the betrayal Take it all in… Through all the happiness Through all the scars Take a deep breath of contentment… For all the beautiful experiences Of darkness…
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Dear Mother…
Dear Mother I entered this life through you You put skin on me Carried me right through the door As the door opened I heard the song of life What a glorious time it is! The life that gave me breath And sense And feelings And caring through my heart I walked on Trying to understand the mystery of life Love expanded me Hurt deepened me Made me more sincere And I walked on Sometimes blind and deaf Sometimes with pain Fought with my fears Embraced the unknown And still, I walked on Until I began to hear the song of life Sang through the birds Spoken through the winds…
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Women
I remember once at work, there was a Business Analyst. Once there was some issue in the project and she kind of sighed, “Ah this project sucks! Of course, other than the fact that being born a woman suck. I felt bad, it’s alright to not like what’s going on in life but disliking the birth itself… that’s hard. When I got somewhat matured, in my mid 20’s, I started noticing my mother closely and understood the subtle sacrifices a woman has to always make in her everyday life. My mother is well educated in economics, but she had lost jobs just for the fact that she’s a woman. I…
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Self Help
“Mind” – the entity that fears insecurity. That always looks for security, perpetuating the survival. That complicates everything, from studies to career to relationship to money. That deludes rope to a snake, and snake to a rope. Mind, the sole reason for existence, the protector of the body; that generates adrenalin in times of peril, to make us more alert; that generates serotonin for happiness, to give us enthusiasm and smiles; that generates gastrin for digestion, to digest food at the right time, and not secrete acids at the wrong times as to digesting our own stomach; that generates hormones to sustain creation, the hormones that make us look for…
