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THE MIND As much as working out is an exercise for the body and vocalizing is an exercise for the vocal chords, reading is one of the forms of exercising the brain. I may not explain how it works. I leave that to the neurologists, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, and whatever deals with the brain. I just knew and I just believe they are making me equipped in maximizing my brain’s capability. There are times I would find myself slow to respond. Those circumstances arise when I got to shelve the potentials of my brain and just to let my whole understanding float nowhere. In other words, when I wonder nonsensically which is not a good habit. It’s like treating your brain like a pig feeding it with lots of minerals being stuffed with fats all over until it can not move and function anymore. As much as the body muscles need a lot flexing and the vocal chords needs a lot of vocalizing, definitely the brain needs to get its motor running. With this realization, reading in a way becomes...

FRIENDLY BOOKS There are so many ways to win a friend. A lot of books would expand the discussion in line with making friends, winning friends, being friendly, keeping a friend, and so on and so forth. And mind you, many publishers go for this stuff because they know readers will buy these. The condition of being with someone is a treasure to keep and you can bet your life. Having no one is like no life at all - no man is an island. WAYS OUT OF THE INSECURE Admit it, human beings with the right minds and hearts possess insecurities, big or little, and sometimes are haunted by the thoughts of being deserted. Many responses to keep friends under their wings are sometimes generated out of these piercing thoughts, intentionally or not, serious or light, with dark or not so harmful schemes. We long for company. No doubt about it. However trying to gain friends out of the insecurities of longing to have someone may not really gaining friends in the long run. Here are some of the sch...

THE MOVIE In the movie “Head Over Heels”, Bob Smoot played by Freddie Prince Jr. asked his girlfriend, Amanda played by Monica Potter, “Do you believe in Love at First Sight?” Amanda replied, “ It is too easy. I believe in taking a DEEPER LOOK.” Love at first sight is idealistic to those who are hopeless romantics or to those singles who are still waiting for a magic that comes on their sight once their soulmates would appear in midst of the enticing mist ala Hollywood effect. That’s not bad after all. In the case of Amanda, she does not wait for the magic. She does something to acquire the magic and that is to take the DEEPER LOOK, to get to know the person she is interested with, to see how far she will get to be enticed by knowing more of the person, to search the goodness in the person. Amanda is an artist. She is a dreamy restorer of Old Master paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. That figures why she has this kind of character. Artists are into venturing various inte...

Friends come and go. People leave you and you will leave them. Changes have to be embraced for they are bound to happen whether they are sudden or they will take years. No matter how you take refuge to your comfort zone, fate will forced you to get out and find another stroke that needs to work on. Who move the cheese? You dare not ask this question when you are aware that not all the time the usual system works. Everyone has to grow and has to adapt to what is suitable. Milk for babies. Not all the time you are a baby. Where am I? I am bound to a greater glory. If I stick to where I am now, I might not get there on time. Sometimes risk is an ingredient to take. No matter what guts I have here and no matter what decisions I have to make, I should carry FAITH in order to go on. I am in the verge of changing pace. May God bless me!

I do not have control of every one. I don’t have control of the malicious doings of people around me. They may just shoot you dead. I don’t know. No matter how friendly you are, no matter how you get to spend lunch or breakfast with everyone, there are really people who have that talent of destroying for the sake of just destroying. People who are insecure realize the advantages of cultivating the talent of destroying. If they know that others are better than them in a certain area, they use the talent of destroying. And since people who excels in the area where the destroyers are poor, do not have time to cultivate wicked talent, they are prone to destruction. Mrs Huber was insecure over Mrs Van de Camp in the area of refining their landscape. Mrs Van De Camp always has a greener and more flowery landscape than Mrs Huber’s. And because Mrs Huber has other talent, (wicked that is), she found a way to destroy Mrs Van de Camp’s. A scene in Desperate Housewives. I began thinking of what I...

I visited Special Word hoping that God would speak to me through it. And God said, Dear Jet, First get rid of the log from your own eye; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye. God My partner and I were in Tropical Hut in Quezon Memorial Circle one morning. Many joggers mostly middle aged folks were taking their breakfast. I noticed first the middle aged lady parading, sashaying and displaying her sexy jogging outfit in front of men. The costume consisted of a leafy mini skirt stolen from Tinkle Bell with green tights underneath, with body hugging t-shirt inside a yellow green bolero. I began to deduce that the reason that she was standing while talking with men was to just show off. She would have just sit still and conversed. The mean thought did not stop there until I mentioned my observation and comment to my partner. I injected bad thought s to my partner. I realized my malice afterwards. Bad. God speaks in many ways. Special W...