How do you want to be remembered?

Before we're about to end this week in history, the world mourn for the loss of a great friend, artist and the two biggest icons in entertainment. The first one succumbs to cancer and the other one found almost no life due to cardiac arrest. The sad thing about this, is that it all happens in one day. It goes to show that no one is exempted even famous people when one is about to face death's final curtain.

Now the question is: How do would you like to be remembered by those who have known you and most especially by God? What would people be saying about you today if you had died yesterday? What kind of reputation are you making for yourself? A very much personal question most of us don't often wished to answer or even cared about. I think there is nothing wrong to show some act of generosity as we open up a part of ourselves to others. I don't know if I'm the right person to blog about this but we are what we are on our own little ways we can make a difference and established a reputation not for the sake of having a good name or legacy towards this life. I think it is much more than what we instill just to boost our own egos.

The wise writer of the Bible book of Ecclesiastes said: "A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one's being born."

So how will you be remembered? If you had died yesterday, what would people be saying about you today? This is a question that might motivate all of us to improve on how we act. Yes, to be sure, "a good name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one's being born."

9 Fruitage of the Spirit?
love √
joy √
peace √
long-suffering √
kindness √
goodness √
faith √
mildness √
self-control √

-Galatians 5:22-23

my first photoshop attempt

Original Photo Courtesy of Katalinaa

Skin Deep

Here's another passage I have encounter in my daily online browsing. It goes something like this:

“A tiger dies and leaves its skin; a man dies and leaves his name.”


According to this proverb, we are different from beasts in that our most important
aspects are what’s inside the skin, rather than the skin itself. This proverb urges
us to strive to do something more meaningful so that our names evoke positive images.
But nowadays it seems as though what our “names” stand for have been
becoming increasingly shallow, hardly going past the skin itself.

Lookism – “discrimination or prejudice against people based on their appearances”

Is our society guilty of lookism? There was news about a twenty-year-old
young woman who took her own life, leaving a note explaining how she had been hurt by those who teased her for being “fat.” Since she graduated from high school,
she had had trouble finding employment because of her appearance and had
been increasingly stressed about her looks.

There is a joke that says, “You may be forgiven for having a bad heart or personality, but you cannot be forgiven for being ugly.” But this is no joke. With the spread of lookism, the way people judge beauty itself is changing. It is sad to know that some people do not bother to look beyond a person’s physical appearance anymore. We easily judge people base on looks. No longer would
other factors such as manners, demeanor, and personality interfere with such judgments.

Don't worry I'm positively somewhere

Yay! Finally I just got my blog template tweak for some reasons I found the eagerness to do so while being caught in the middle of an inevitable frustration in my everyday life. How true it is when you are being confronted with some kind of stress as in "Stinking Terrible Rotten End of the System Syndrome" you got nothing to do but to make the most out of the situation, sometimes you boldly embrace it and the best way is to deal with it. It is something out of every human being by nature to find the possible way to get your mind out positively somewhere.

I don't know.

I'm not still at ease with myself as for the moment I become stable when it comes to my mood I feel very less like me. As much as possible I don't want to be secure as if come what may. For so many times, I did tried to linger on something I can hold on to somehow pretending I'm not part of the madness. Sadly, I am part of this so-called madness I just can't ignore. A reality I never dare to take against myself. Though I know to myself I can't stay like this forever like the passing of the day, maybe this too shall pass!

Maybe. Who knows?

Maybe that's the reason why I'm here pouring out my thoughts and all my cares. Pretty soon, things will be over and maybe just maybe I'll just laugh about it. Sometimes, when I cared too much it is often mistaken as if I worried too much. There is no doubt about that. So, why care?

Anyway, of all the colors I should have chosen I chose the more earthy shades basically it's the perfect color mood for my blog. With a little help from my ever computer nerd middle sister I did pretty well. Thanks to her. Having to learn the two Blogger version you can't just download, paste and edit the template as fast as you'd like. Voila!