Time and Space and Life and Love

What does life has to offer? What can I offer to life?
When you ask for a pillow, you’ll be given a knife.
And then you ask yourself, what it is that I see.
Is this my imagination, or is it the reality?


There are days that I want to shed all negativity,
Though circumstances take me off my objectivity,
Trying hard to get things going, acting like a hero,
While the easiest thing to do is just to let go.


An ordinary human would succumb to all these pain,
And nothing could be done to keep a person sane.
That would happen certainly if you are all alone,
Thus like a weakly kingdom with a queen-less throne.


There’s always a Divine plan, but we’re given a free choice,
Which makes it tough to follow while fighting all the noise.
But directions from above will always be the pure one,
With a clear mind you will know when things are to be done.


It was never perfect, but is relatively near.
With you beside me, there are few things that I fear
One is the thought of not having you with me,
It’s like living in this world when there’s nothing else to see.


We’ve shared all this love that is bountiful and overflowing,
That adds up these two beating hearts, so lively and fulfilling,
To them we part our joys, our present and our future,
That no matter how hard this life is, together we’ll endure.


Beautiful portions of my life, most of the reason is you,
From the deepest pits of it, you’ve always pulled me thru,
The smallest things you do push me to stand up,
The biggest deeds you make pull me back to where we start.


Time and space have always been so important,
But being beside you makes these things irrelevant,
Adding up these two kids, the four of us together,
Having you all close to me, I want now to be forever.

Happy birthday to my wife Cel. Thank you and I love you.

Best Gift Ever

3/1/13

Dear TIG,

Did you know that the best birthday gift I have ever received in my entire life is my birth itself? 

To my mom, thank you.

Love,
Rogie

Just 10 of Life's Lessons to My Life's First 30 Years

**This is a repost from my FB note on my 30th birthday.

Just sharing some fine few lessons that I learned and realized in the past 30 years of my life. I tried to make them short and simple and hope that they do make sense to you as well. Hope to add more in the next coming years, God willing.

1.  Successes are necessary for our growth, while failures help speed it up.

2.  True friends aren’t chosen. They just happen. Same with enemies.

3.  If we aim to prosper on more important matters rather than being materialistic, we’ll achieve more in life which comes free with the material things that we need.

4.  Open-mindedness is when you are able to consider the other side, then your side, then the other side again, then your side again…and this is where true wisdom begins.

5.  Forgiving isn’t easy while forgetting is almost near to impossible. Time is our most effective weapon to handle both, use it wisely.

6.  One of the few things that tick off the most mature person is having high expectations on an unexpectedly immature person. Refrain from expecting too much.

7.  Scrutinize all “truths” that are being thrown around no matter where they come from.

8.  Brains are meant to think, and mouths are meant to be fed and to swallow. One reason why the society is going into chaos is because many people do the opposite; they are contented that their minds are being fed with information and swallow them without having any second thoughts, while quickly reacting to issues like they are thinking directly with their mouths.

9.  Accountability is a valuable gem for those who want to achieve and retain power, leadership, integrity and respect.

10.  We gain more purpose in our lives by giving purpose to other people’s lives.