American Idol is a great tv program. It makes us dream to become a singer one day and if not, at least just sing, hopefully with the correct tune!
Am sure you agree that teachers are singers, yes? Sometimes it is facilitated by the requirements of effective teaching. Sometimes it is declared by the personalities of teachers who come in different shapes and colors but definitely always talented. Yes? YES! Teachers are singers and if you still do not know or you disagree, please check it out. Your mother is your first teacher and am sure you agree she is a great singer, YES? YES! Your elementary teacher teaches you nursery rhymes and definitely sings it first before you manage to imitate and sing it correctly well and correctly tuned too. Many more teachers come to your life and sometimes, these moments make you think so deeply you compose a song or a poem and if at all possible, a book.
Today, May 24, Thursday in the Philippines, at a time when American Idol is waiting who will become the next American Idol, a sixteen er is teaching us to love singing and one day use it to go to better opportunities to earn more or just love it for one's use.
Still, my theory is teachers are singers and great at it. Yes? YES!
It is really difficult to stop something if you enjoy doing it; still teach yourself to do better!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:58 AM
There is one realization one has to come to grips with: how be financially stable and remain decent in your life till the end.
There are tests that all of us have difficulty overcoming because it is enjoyable to do it again and again. There are many opportunities that life offers to each of us to begin again every time we fail to do good. This is the beautiful part of life's promise: We can continuously teach ourselves to do better every time we fail. There are even instances when what matters alone is the time you stand up after a fall and move on.
The twist of life's twists is that there are not so good things we do and keep on doing because we enjoy doing it. there are even moments when you have to scold yourself for being weak and sometimes cry and curse if only to awaken and really do what is better than the best so far.
So when it seems you find this dilemma up front: do not be so hard on yourself. Life is short and smile over this failure. then teach yourself again and again, like a child who seems to be in exhaustively open to life,
Being alone moments teach you to learn more about life.
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:01 PM
Life as a whole is a learning moment for life. But it is when you are on your own, truly alone, that you face life's realities. Somehow, even the silence of the night and the noise that seems to become emboldened due to your "aloneness" in your own home that the teaching moments become so sharp and so deep to fathom.
Moment number one: When children get sick and you find you are alone in making them well. Other people are around but being the mom makes it seem so real that the children are yours to protect even from the inevitable sicknesses that every child faces all throughout their growing years. Yet with all the four children, these were the moments that made my existence meaningful and indispensable. The mom of course gets enough strength from her faith in God who is the source of all life.
Moment number two: When the children are grown and they begin to have their own niche. Time is viewed now in terms of quality not quantity. Even the distance makes it possible to treasure each other more. We have tried being together all the time and while it worked it is one fact of life that no one can stop, it is in letting your loved one be and go when he/she wills that then life is truly what it is meant to be. Being the mom who truly loves each of the grown children, even being alone is tolerable not because it is no longer painful but because it must be.So it is.
Moment number three: When alone moments teach you to learn about life that at the end of the day, every person is meant to be alone only to live more fully for as we came to this world alone we too have to go on alone but not necessarily physically alone. To life be the journey . . .
You can call it teaching moments because the bias is that of being a teacher but learning moments sound even better because all of us are learners since the topic deals with brownouts that really test your patience beyond compare.
Perhaps it is an exaggeration so let us settle with coping while the brownouts occur. One, you get inspired to reach for a book and with candle lit surrounding, you read: Good for your spirit and peace of mind. Two, you growl and gnash and pray for sanity while thinking about the incapacity of all the energy servers- for not upgrading enough to deal with climate change. Three, you congratulate yourself for accepting the travails of life and heaving a sigh, still smile once the lights are on! Four, you prepare for the next day's brownout and the next day's brownout and the next until one day, the brownouts get minimized and no more . . .
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