Kindness

Let me repost this, my friends, for contained herein are things I would like to tell myself.

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Should You Be Kind to Bad People?
by: BO SANCHEZ

One day, an American, a Russian, and a Filipino were talking.
The Russian said, “We were first in space!”
The American said, “We were first on the moon!”
The Filipino said, “So what? Haven’t you been reading the newspaper? Our economy is doing very well. Mark my words, the Philippines will be a First World country. And we will be the first one on the sun!”
The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads. “You idiot, you can’t land on the sun!” the Russian said, “You’ll burn up!”
The Filipino said, “I’m not stupid, you know. We’ll go there at night!”

Dreams Update: OCTOBER 2010

Bo Sanchez said that when he was younger, he wrote down all his dreams on a sheet of paper, and ended up with a 15-page document which he called Dreambook. Every morning, he would read it as part of his daily prayers. Among other things in his Dreambook, he wrote that he would like to become a best-selling author, a good husband, and a loving father. Now, he has written several best-selling books, and is happily married with two lovely kids.

Tonight, I’m doing the same thing. I’m making a Dreambook. But I’m not writing it. I’m typing it.

(Click here to view The Silent Spectator’s Dreambook.)

BTW, I turn 22 today. Praise be to God!

Goal

I have a new goal.

Or, rather, Maureen and I have a new goal.

We will work really hard and save lots’a money this year so we could share an apartment in the U.S. next year. I was really glad when she “messaged” me a while ago in Facebook just to tell me that. It feels good that I’m being reunited with my gradeschool bestfriend once again.

In order to reach that goal, we would have to step out of our comfort zones and step into our “courage zones.”

Bo Sanchez says that if we want to succeed in life, we should abandon our fears and begin to act even if nothing seems to be clear. Naturally, we’d encounter lots of failures. But that’s great! And we should feel great that it is great. Because it is through our failures, that the path becomes clear. Action precedes clarity.

Hopefully, this year, Maureen and I will be able to follow Bo Sanchez’s preachings, and achieve our short-term goals (such as getting a good job and saving money), so by the following year, we would be capable of renting our own apartment and achieving our long-term goals.

Dreams Update: MARCH 2010

When I pass the NAPLEX, I will work and study real hard so I can be an emergency pharmacist and earn $200 per hour. I want to be truly rich to a point that 10% of my total earnings is already more than enough to answer my needs. Like Bo Sanchez, I would like to spend the other 90% for charity works and scholarship foundations. That would be so awesome.

Dreams Update: JANUARY 2010

Today, I still want to become a doctor (either an MD or a PharmD) and become a young millionaire. As much as possible, I want health and money to be the least of my problems. I also like the idea of having my own family in the future, but before that, I want to become really rich that I can travel the whole world and afford a ticket to every concert I’d like to attend.

While listening to Audrey and Kpop Lover’s conversation about Goldie’s parents last January 5, I suddenly came up with a very good reason on why I should become a doctor: It’s because I want to give my future children a good life, just like what Goldie has now.

I wish that I’d still be young by the time I became rich so I’d still have more time and strength to do anything I wanted to do with my life—take piano, violin and guitar lessons, learn different Asian languages, take my Mom and brother to Paris, build my own restaurant, donate a laboratory to my former school, establish my own scholarship foundation, et cetera.

To sum things up, my dreams for today all talk about money. Money, money, and more money. Money may not be the most important thing in the world, but it definitely affects the most important things in the world, just as a famous Filipino preacher had said.