Words for Keeps

Nothing is much truer than these words.

"Keep your eyes simple. Keep your eyes on the prize. Keep the fine fight of faith."

Old HS Passage

I found these words written in my high school notebook back then sort of more like a random quotation... that just describes what I'm feeling lately. Just so beautiful...

Each of us has the right and responsibility to assess the roads which lies ahead, and those over which we have traveled. 


And if the future road looms ominous or unpromising and the roads back uninviting then, we need to gather over resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage step off that road into another direction.


The only limits are, as always, those of vision. No matter how full the river is, it still wants to grow.


xoxo

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.