Things I’ve learned since I turned 25: #1
This woman speaks my mind out on tumblr, AbetgotBARS.
never pursue a career that you hate or think you might hate eventually.
even if you don’t make jack shit.
even if you are judged by peers.
even if people enjoy seeing you suffer for a cause you firmly believe in, aka your dreams.
even if it takes a few years longer than you thought it would: Pursue something you love.
Losing your sanity, your self, is just not worth the money.
by Romeo Hebron
Ever since joining Anakbayan LA (AB-LA) in December 2010, I’ve developed a better understanding of the National Democratic (ND) movement in the Philippines. By attending meetings, events, and participating in various educational discussions with the rest of the…
Our allies
Our allies will not necessarily be the kind of dazzling people to whom everyone looks up and of whom they say: ‘There’s none better.’
On the contrary, they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognized.
Yet they are just the kind of people who transform the world and, after many mistakes, manage to do something that can make a real difference in their community.
They are people who can’t bear to sit around waiting for things to happen in order to decide which attitude to adopt; they decide as they act, well aware that this could prove highly dangerous.
Living with such people is important because we need to realize that before we face our goal, we must first feel free enough to change direction.
Join with all those who experiment, take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks.
Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected for doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts.
Join with those who sing, tell stories, take pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.
If people took my kindness for greatness then there’d be no trouble, but in my reality, it isn’t the case,so i hold a piece in my back pocket in case shit gets worse.
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REfelction reFLECTED
All i want to do is learn
so i do..
ill step back, constantly observing and trying to figure why and how things are…So i do those things in my own way(through success or failure, but there isn’t such a thing, just another opportunity to learn), try to solve unsolvable arithmetics of life, find a solution, and then keep questioning that solution until the rough answer ive come up with is definite. What the hell is definite? It’s like I’m going in circles with solutions thinking im confusing myself only to NOW figure out that the circle im running is actually not a circle, but a revisitation and constant refinement of my understanding. The world is constantly changing, even though we feel as if we see the same environment daily, everything is slowly learning, learning how to adapt? how to grow? i wouldn’t know, but all i know is that, the second you turn your head away from something, the more it evolves without you, without you even knowing how it grew…
My mind hella drifts…
in short, I learned not to take advantage of the same routines i have daily, but to constantly LEARN from it, REFINE it, MASTER it, because on this same soil i was born from can be the same soil i die on, but in between, there’s hella shit to learn son.
All i want to do is learn…
A quote that relates to this passage that i always look back on
“Imitate the children, not childish but child like…” -Always being ambitious and wanting to learn, staying curious, accepting, and open minded… but of course having your own boundaries, but push them a little when new ideas arise to see how they work…
“Be like water…” water can take shape of anything, constantly learning how to do things, how to apply them, so i use this quote to make my mentality fluid, but solid when needs be.
