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melancholic

Being Melancholic

Being a Melancholic Person

Being a melancholic person is no easy matter. For one thing, you easily get depressed. You also have the tendency to be overcritical of yourself and of other people. But being able to understand yourself is one of the first things that can help you in overcoming your difficulties.

When I learned I belong to the melancholic type of temperament, I was able to understand myself more. I’ve learned to accept myself and avoid being more depressed whenever I make mistakes and fall below my own expectations. I’ve realized I’m not so different after all with other people having the same difficulties. I’ve also discovered many of the gifts given me, gifts that came along with all the weaknesses I saw.

Now I know that God created each of us for a reason. And though I have the tendency to be down, I mean, really down and all, I also have the capacity to experience inexplicable heights of joy, a high that many people can never even imagine.

It is true that being a melancholic makes me sensitive and easily hurt, but it also helps me to be more understanding of other people. At times, its like I can almost enter into other people’s heart and experience their joys, their sorrows, whatever it is that other people find so hard to grasp.

Melancholics also have the capacity to undergo great sacrifices, and they are loyal and dependable friends. They are also creative and have sharp analytical skills.

For all the difficulties that come with being melancholics, there are also priceless gifts one can’t help but be grateful about. It’s up to us now how we should use the gifts given us, and how we should learn to focus on the brighter side of life no matter how dark some seasons seem to be.

Melancholics have a heavy cross to bear, but they also have a lofty heaven to look forward to. Must anyone fear love for all the sorrows it can render us? Must anyone fear life? When one is able to truly grasp the happiness that comes along with life, with love, one is able to embrace anything, even the heaviest of crosses in order to enter a heaven whose joy overpowers all pain and all sacrifices.

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women

So what if you like pink?

Women are different from men

I’ve learned that men and women are different. And in order to be your best self, you have to nurture who you are, your masculine or your feminine side.

It is easy to forget who you are and just fit in into the roles that rarely consider the uniqueness of each person. In a corporate setting perhaps, it is so easy to neglect the feminine side of a woman and merely focus on her needed skills in order to achieve corporate goals. What’s needed is her being analytical or compliant to rules and regulations, or her being competitive enough to get promoted and to assert herself. Instead of being treated as a person, as a woman, sometimes she is treated as a man, or worse, as a machine or an asset that needs to perform, nothing more.

It isn’t wrong to expect performance from a person, especially if that’s what the job requires. But let us not forget our true nature, our being human, for it is in being our best selves that we also serve best the people around us.

In being a woman for instance, we need to nurture our emotions, and our need to talk and be heard. We are communicators by nature, and if repressed, we feel that our thinking process is incomplete. If expressed properly however, people benefit from us because we serve as channels of understanding where we are. We provide a flowing channel of emotions that enable us to have insights we may never even arrive at had we remained stiff and detached from our hearts.

Women provide a sense of peace, a sense of beauty and of expression, let no one take it away from you. Women are also healers in that they are able to guide people thru their pain, being more familiar with pain themselves. Like nature, we could be buffers that absorb what is hurtful and blunt, and turn them into something more fluid, accepting and resilient.

Nurture your feminine side, for women are different from men. Shop around and pamper yourself once in a while, if that’s what’s needed to bring out the woman in you. Don’t be afraid to express your eccentricities or your fondness of things men may not have interest in. So what if you like cute figurines or hello kitty characters? So what if you like pink? So what if you needed to talk while processing your ideas? If you are to nurture your feminity, guess who’d be the first ones to be thankful about it?

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Best Life Quotes daily motivational affirmations Self-Development success Words of Wisdom

Conquering New Worlds

 I go there not to be comfortable,but to conquer new worlds.

 Consider not your losses,but the victories you have yet to achieve.

The more your struggles are,the sweeter also will be your success. 

Protect your vision. At times it is more important than your present accomplishments.

You have a dream. You may not know it yet,but it is there,

embedded in the deepest part of your heart.

live with no regrets!

 

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friendship

Friends Never Get Tired

Friends never get tired

Funny how in real life, we don’t talk to family and friends about the Top Ten Reasons for Living or for Writing a Blog.

Funny how we don’t speak so scholarly or perfectly or as much filled with wisdom and insight like when we used to when posting our best articles on the web.

Funnier still how they always seem interested in what we’re going to say, even if it just be our perennial whines about the office or about a television show we have watched the night before.

Funny how they never seem to get tired of us and of all our boring imperfectly constructed chats. Funny how they don’t easily delete us or unsubscribe to what we can offer them.

Why do they yearn to hear us even though they’ve already heard most of what we’re going to say?

Why do they continue to await our company? Why do they keep on tuning in to our hearts?

Maybe the answer lies in that last part. We wanted to keep in touch not with the external things, but with the person deep inside. You see, that’s how love works, and when love works, you never get tired of it. You yearn for it as though it’s as new as the sunrise you see each morning.

Alas, you know it’s the same ancient sun, yet you never question its fresh beginnings from day to day.

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Poems

Goodnight My Dear!

Goodnight my dear

I’m glad I have you near

For the many things you’ve brought me

There’s nothing I shall fear

Goodnight my dear

Let my songs wipe your tears

We’ve certainly got each other

And we always shall through the years

goodnight poems

Goodnight my dear

Let my prayer bring you cheer

The moon is bright and the stars are shining

And they bless us always here 🙂