What You Create Today Matters Tomorrow

I checked my stock market portfolio on COL and I've realized that it's almost a year that I've subscribed to Bo's  "Truly Rich Club". I'm glad to see that the shares' value were sloping upward and with no detriments. It's going as planned. However, what I realize too is I haven't given much thought about the whole stock market thing at all. I just place passive money and trade as advised. I was not that excited at all. But yesterday, after seeing the big picture created after several months, something came out... a surge of ideas came flying out, which got me excited, even avaricious. It's just amazing how you learn a lot from things you started from before.

In another instance, I chanced upon my old scrapbook created in 2006 I believe. It was not a scrapbook I deliberately made for myself. Rather it was a project our teacher suggested for us to pass Philosophy of Man back in college. The whole project is kind of unique because it is a scrapbook intended for people to read when you're already dead. It came to be a collection of thoughts and beliefs at that time and how you could have said goodbye to people or to this world. I realized I changed a lot since then. Though there's no big gap from my thinking process before and now, I couldn't help but be amazed on how mature my views were. It's as if looking at a window and seeing my old self but with very different taste and strong views that I'm not even certain if I still hold true at this moment. I realize that this creation of mine helped me perceive a lot of things for it reflects what I've done or reached at that certain time. Also, how my perceptions of the world were and how I've loved so far. Just today, I reconsidered probably creating another one, perhaps make it a project for each decade.

There are many instances like these that I bump upon something I created that made joyful consciousness of the present. For me it could be old songs, poems, write ups that my older self created. Viewing such context as a whole, I figured that it's delightful living in the now with all those reminiscent possessions at one's disposal. It reminds us that what we create today matters tomorrow. Perhaps I'd create anything today, could be covering the guitar of a song and posting it on YouTube. It could probably be something random that I haven't done before (paint?). Anything that is tangible or viewable in the future. I am convinced that these creations become tiny gems on the coming numbered days. I'm hopeful to create something big though - a game changer that becomes a pivot in my life. I just feel it's coming and it's worth to be excited.  I wonder how I'd reflect on that when the time comes. Life is worth to be excited for.


One of my mini creations.

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The Importance Of Developing One's Self

I once had a fear of failure – always afraid to start or pursue anything. In line with that, I also thought that there is nothing worth achieving, since what rises only falls or what lives will always die. However, this is such a depressing state of mind. The more you think of it, the more it burrows obscurity in you, leaving you emptied and exhausted. I learned that developing one’s self is a brighter way. It is the path to achieve many great things and a means to abandon the pessimistic thought of nothing is worth achieving. I realized that it was the voice of fear that was whispering to me telling me that everything is small and futile, when in fact, there are so many things to achieve, to reach, and so many wonderful views to see. I further realized that giving in to fear hinders anyone from self-actualization and their pursuit of happiness.

So why do people choose not to develop their self? Or why do they stop? Or do they really? Am I just misjudging them? Or myself? I do know that in one point or another we strive to grow and develop to something higher. It’s probably innate in us as humans. But sometimes, we have this shield of giving up and just rest with mediocrity. Do we just allow this and condemn ourselves? I would say not. 

How do we cultivate self-growth?

Developing one’s self may seem easy but it is not quite. As the famous philosopher quote, “the greatest journey is the journey to self”. We are treasures and we’re yet to find the map and key to uncover us. I speak of purpose and ideals here, they are in us and it takes a while or even a lifetime to discover them. The important fact is that we walk with such potential and yet many of us don’t know about it. It’s time to uncover the truth that we are far better than anything in this world, and that the answers lay within and not from trivialities. This path of actualization is a long one, but take note that it is an endless one. An irony and it is probably why one should always seek for it to better understand it. We are after all unique, and no one can really give you purpose or the right path except yourself.

It’s a risk. The path to developing self is a risk and it is an option. You may choose to decay and prevent growth, that’s fine. It’s your life after all. However, you should understand that to develop self is not a far dream. There are so many things to developing self and there’s no expert in this.  All I’m saying is that it is important to develop self because there is actually nowhere else to be. We are meant for so much more, we’re meant to grow and denying this fact of life will suck us out of life itself. 

Maybe I'm writing this post for me, to act as a reminder of such strong opinions. How about you, do you think it is important or is there a better way? Enlighten me. 

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Let Go Or Hold On

Have you wondered about when to let go and also when not to? There should be some sort of line there separating those two course of actions. But a thing that I discovered is that you can actually keep on going on and not giving up as long as you want, even if it's all against the odds. And apparently, you may also move on and let go as easily and as early as you can. You are the captain of the ship and you'll be surprised on how swift it is to make a decision.

But how do we know if it's a let go or a hold on? How do we know if we reached the line, when you can just make a decision as quick and as effortless? Well, there should be some factors to consider here and it'd be best to examine both.

On holding on

One thing I learned in this life is to not give up on the people you love. No matter how bad they do, if they truly are someone you love, then it won't matter. You have to trust them and hold on to them. You may call it unconditional love or just by truly seeking the goodness in them for you know they have it. In fact, we should find the goodness in all people. We can always find the goodness in each one, it's just a matter of time to find it if you truly consider it in them.

Anyhow, the point here is that you can always choose to hold on and if ever you want to hold on and never give up, might as well do it with the people you truly love. You don't have to give up on them, you can always hold on to them and love them. This may seem counterintuitive but it is valid and it can be a fruitful and meaningful decision. Some great people never give up.

Letting go

Another thing I learned in life is that to let go on things you have no control of. Basically, this could be others' decision to stay and to love you, you technically have no control of those. You'll be amazed that letting go and moving on can be an easy thing as long as you realize that many things are out of your control and holding on to those things will only disappoint you and suck you off your energy. You don't actually need anyone else in your life but you. This means that you can always let go of anything and still manage to survive. Some great people are masters of letting go.

As you can see, this quite contradicts to what I discussed about holding on earlier and in fact this is quite confusing, even baffling. For, how can you hold on, when you know some aspects of people are not of your control? And how can you easily let go, when they were ones the people you loved?

There could be something here, given those points above, we can see that both could be of the same essence. What possibly my point is that, letting go doesn't really mean that you're giving up while holding on doesn't really mean you've surrendered. It's tricky really, but if you let go, you trust the person to learn on his own, thus never giving up on him/her. While if you hold on, you surrendered something in you, to keep you on track. See there is a combination, an enchanting influence or connection of both. When you truly choose to one decision and live by it, you actually pursue and realize both. So you just have to pick one, depending on what you really want and just live by it.

For me, there's no wrong choice so no need to worry. Instead, the source of frustration likely comes from us not being strong enough to keep up to the decision and firmly hold on to it. This is where the depression comes, the pain and all those negative stuff. Hesitation and indecision sucks big time. However, if we discovered that it's all about how we do it, how we keep up to our decision and preserve our values for it, then we truly make a decision and truly let go and move on or hold on and not give up.

So have you figured out the thin line? I guess there's no thin line after all.

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Pursuing Anything

There is a risk for dreaming anything. You should know dreaming, akin to complaining presents a call to action. It may seem vague, but once you realize that you need to get from point a to b, you are compelled to act upon it. Complaining in a way is mentioning a desire. It's just that you notice the undesired - such as complaining about your car, makes you feel obliged to do something about it, say buying a new one. See when you complain and not act on it you inadvertently begin to be insane or stupid, as Einstein said in his famous quote, "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". As rational being, and humans as we are, we have the capability to do something about our situation. We have the power to make things happen.

When you dream you actually thought of the desired. We always think about the desired all the time, I mean I know a lot of people, including me, who spend my hours daydreaming of what if's and what could's. It's easy to dream, but you should know that dreaming itself is already a bold thing. You're actually telling yourself something to act upon, and this directly puts you in a choice - to do it or to drop it. Because it makes you insane. But why do people tend to stay insane? They continuously think about their dreams and yet not do anything. Well, there are several factors about it, but there's this one thing that surface out the most.

It's the thinking that we don't have the necessary things to achieve our goals. This stops most people. When we dream we always think about the obstacles and we then reason out that they're too big and we just have to give in to them. But let me tell you something, you have everything you need right now to achieve anything you want. Call it God, or the universe, but if you truly desire anything it will be provided to you, everything you ever need. 

Not convinced? Here is another point that may help, our dreams are actually valid dreams. We're beings that think of possible scenarios and they are genuinely possible because you conceived it. We only imagine things that are possible as it relates to our experience, lessons, the life we have so far, and so on. This means that we don't really dream of something of which we can't imagine. As you view it this way, you'll understand that everything is laid out. You just have to grab the tangible dream and act on it, which is by the way the challenging part. (that calls for another topic about discipline and consistency.)

In addition to my point, most of our dreams or aspirations today of what we can be or what we want to have, are already a copy of someone else's. Someone has already achieved it, say being rich, of course someone has achieved that. Bear in mind that if anyone could do it, you could do it as well. People  should ponder on this more often.

Now, there are a few who actually deviate of the norm, those who create something out of nothing. We call them crazy or naive. Indeed they are, and as history shows us, crazy or naive people are stupid enough to do the things that no one has reached before. And they do. It's a good thing to be crazy, to risk everything and dive in. It's different from insanity. It's a liberating act that skyrockets lessons in which you can apply to reaching the unreachable. 

Is it worth anything? This is a very strong question for me. Sometimes we may think that doing something or not doing anything at all are both the same. Indeed they are, in this life, you have a choice and pretty much it won't matter. You can be happy with any situation or circumstances but happiness is not permanent nor thus sadness. Success is not permanent and stability is a lie. Therefore, we are bound to move and grow. It's just life and that's just what it means living here in this world. This is a truth that may not be a truth for you now, but don't worry, everything and everyone has their own path, their lessons. The beauty of diversity, as this post seemingly be. My mind is diverse like that, and I have to end this to this.

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Waiting for sleep

I can’t sleep and inevitably my mind roams... I’ve been listening to the cover song that we will be playing this Sunday. It’s officially my first time to play a praise song in a band (future of forestry - gazing). My gut feeling tells me that this is going to be fun.

Anyhow this is not the point of this, I actually thought of something interesting. I found something in humans that certainly amaze me and I found this just recently. The word is "conviction."

We may know that conviction usually comes from our various beliefs, perhaps and most of the time, from goals, ideals, and so on. However, what I recently found is something different. People who are honestly convicted with their belief in God. I mean for real, and it’s kinda baffling. Seriously, I never felt like this when relating to Catholic priests I’ve known and even to some strict religious elders.

These are people of the same age as mine, and some even younger. It is crazy how I get so intimidated and at the same time in awe by them. The sincerity in their actions and in their words was too sarcastic for my taste that they suddenly look so genuine.

I’m certainly glad I met these guys. They seem to influence me in their enigmatic ways. Nonetheless, it marks something new for me. I told one friend that I’ve listened too much on science’s side of genesis, it’s perhaps time to listen to the counter part - God’s story. Me and my open-mindedness, thus a journey unfolds unexpectedly.

I’m neither giving up on my previous ideals nor plan on doing anything drastic or crazy. I am probably here to listen. Why the deuce am I writing this? I really wish sleep knocks me off now…

Well that’s pretty much for today. And so I leave you with this, “To whatever you believe in, may you have conviction. More often than not, it’s the only thing that matters and at remote times, the only thing we can cling to.“

p.s. Here's the cover.

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Quotes by Dave Kevin Visaya (continuously updated)

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"Our desire to be always right makes us always wrong." (April 10, 2017)

"I'm a dreamer and I dream that someday everything will be laid upon me. But that day simply has not come yet." (March 9, 2016)

"You can't win a battle without enemies." (September 10, 2015) 

"To the things unknown, you'll always be uncomfortable. To the things known, you will always be comfortable." (January 28, 2015)

"If you love life, the last thing you want to do is to be around with people who hate it." (August 20, 2014) 

"Needy people are selfish people." (July 18, 2014) 

"We have to make things ok to make them ok." (June 28, 2014)

"All the great cities once started from nothing" (June 24, 2014)

"There is no pain in loving, there is but loving and pain." (April 10, 2014)

"We yearn for love not because we 'need love' but because we 'need to love.' (February 11, 2013)

"We were proud as kings then we fell in love" (December 10, 2013) 

"If you think hard enough, the creation of sound is in itself a miracle" (September 30, 2013)

"You know that it's so hard for a dreamer to be able to dream and not keep them." (September 24, 2013)

"Creating ideas is like creating music, you have limitless possibilities of tunes when we only have 12 audible notes. It pays to think out of the box." (August 26, 2013)

"You ain't living better if you think you're better than anyone else." (August 22, 2013)

"The good thing about losing everything you have is that you'll realize that you have so much more." (August 19, 2013)

"You don't need dramatic people, you got too much drama yourself. Prefer bracing ones who support you just by being their awesome selves." (August 6, 2013) 

"Don't say 'it's an experiment' for everything in life is an experiment. You'll never know if what you're doing right now is right or wrong." (July 24, 2013)

"One thing I could say about speech and writing is that you could always say better." (July 24, 2013)

"We want to be on top of things to worry about other things." (July 20, 2013)  

"You don't have to make everything hard or ideal, you just have to see to it that you try to be better today than yesterday." (July 9, 2013) 

"Most of the time it's not the detergent that determines how clean something gets. It's mostly due to one's scrubbing and effort to wash the dirt off. In life, we don't need to have the best gadgets or things, we mostly need the effort to make things happen." (July 9, 2013) 

"But contentment is such a sad word for me. I'll forever chase happiness, that is my contentment." (July 1, 2013) 

"The moment we accept it is the moment we are ready" (June 28, 2013)

"There's nothing too expensive in this world if you desire it." (June 26, 2013) 

"It's not whether you are right or wrong, rather it's about whether you have faith in what you believe in right now." (June 15, 2013)

"We started as beggars in this world. We usually forget that everything was initially given to us." (June 7, 2013)

"The reason you love is that you have a heart and nothing else." (May 22, 2013) 

"It's not all about money anymore. It's about making things happen." (April 18, 2013) 

"Don't let anyone rob you from failing" (April 8, 2013) 

"For you to love what you're doing, you have to be good at it" (April 3, 2013)

"Don't let a day pass without musing the beauty of the world" (April 3, 2013) 

"The world does not revolve around you, the world is you." (March 29, 2013)

"The secret to becoming a fast learner is versatility and learning as many skills as you can" (March 25, 2013)

"Be careful on what you want to discover. You might never come back."(March 9, 2013) 

"What you create today matters tomorrow." (March 6, 2013) 

"I'm all the books that I've read, the sceneries that I've seen, the heart aches that I faced, the tragedies and triumphs of my life, I am everything that has happened and yet to happen." (February 21, 2013) 

"Do whatever that makes you happy. If you truly become happy, then that's great but if you don't, you'd get nearer to it cause you just defined happiness a bit more" (February 11, 2013)

"As long as heavens permits... Nothing lasts forever." (February 11, 2013)

"Don't worry. Nothing lasts forever" (January 29, 2013)

"Success is not permanent but lessons are" (January 27, 2013)

"The best thing in life is life itself. Every moment is a gift" (January 23, 2013)

"We have no right on other people. We have no hold on them. And the best thing we can do is to spend the most quality time as it permits" (November 26, 2012)

"People usually leave you at your worst to make you realize it isn't the worst at all" (November 16, 2012)

"More often than not, we're scared of our dreams" (November 13, 2012)

"Find yourself first before even finding others" (November 5, 2012)

"I'll know if I found the right one when I become the right me" (September 23, 2012)

"You view things differently, but it is much better if you view it optimistically. Here is a phrase where you can see it through either ways 'Nothing's enough'. Nothing is enough and we seek insatiable needs, or nothing is enough and you can live with it? What do you see?" (September 18, 2012)

"Once you complain, you sentence yourself to act." (August 21, 2012)

"Whatever comes from your mouth is a reflection of yourself." (August 15, 2012)

"If everything feels wasted and exaggerated, then give. Giving is always fulfilling and never wasted or exaggerated." (August 12, 2012)

"I wouldn't say definite. I wouldn't say final. There will always be drifts, changes, and revolutions. Our source is infinite." (August 12, 2012)

"Pretty faces are always there. However, eureka comes rarely." (July 30, 2012)

"God gives us the same challenges until we learn from it. Not getting it? Expect more from Him. He never backs out until you grow." (July 17, 2012)

"Everything that you're doing right now is your only edge. Make sure you are good at it." (June 24, 2012)

"You never know the right words until you use them." (May 17, 2012)

"Ask the right questions. Ask the right person." (April 29, 2012)

"The future has no guarantees so make each moment count." (April 29, 2012)

"Every talent has to start from somewhere. Try to begin now and you will surely get results later." (April 26, 2012)

"You can never expect more when you're expecting less from yourself" (April 15, 2012)

"One shouldn't fear about the future, but instead fear for not having a goal." (April 15, 2012)

"We all have battles that we need to fight alone." (April 1, 2012)

"No one can live your life better than you do." (January 26, 2012)

"Respect your God above all, but remember that not everyone will respect it." (January 1, 2012)

"People respect you because of your ideals." (December 31, 2011)

"The moment you let go of your dreams and ideals, you are bound to fail." (November 28, 2011)

"In twitter you decide who you follow, but not who follows you. This is quite the same with real life." (October 29, 2011)

"Sometimes it is better not to know more of a person if it only makes you degrade your views of him or her." (October 24, 2011)

"We don’t want to be a fan forever, deep inside we all want to grab a chance in the spotlight." (October 23, 2011)

"Some people flicker and some are unwavering. I wonder if it relates to what I perceive them or is it I not changing, or am I?" (October 17, 2011)

"Don’t ever judge a person or even a relationship. You just don’t know and can’t predict anything. This is how deep “love and people” are, at least show some respect." (September 20, 2011)

"The only super human power that any man can have - The power to make things happen." (September 10, 2011)

"There are only two ways to make your work be known to the world, you either be the best or be the worst. So stay off the middle." (September 8, 2011)

"We all have our frustrations, but it gets worse when we compare ourselves to others." (September 8, 2011)

"I'm not afraid to make mistakes; for tomorrow, these mistakes will become my laughing grounds." (June 10, 2011)

"I found out that you love more when you feel happy. Happiness reciprocates love as love reciprocates happiness." (June 1, 2011)

"Loneliness makes the world huge. And at the same time people only say the world is small when they’re not lonely." (September 14, 2010)

"Sincerity is the heart of love" (August 22, 2008)

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