Love Stories (Revised Edition)

At this young age of mine, I have heard and have seen things that might have broaden my perspective about love. Everday, I see different people, who are bounded with love, exchange "I Love You's," "I Miss You's," "I Heart You's" and a lot of sweet one-liners . I feel like posting their stories here in my blog (might as well a perfect exercise for my Feature Writing skills).

Love Story # 1

Two young teenagers have been living with the question, "Which would you prefer to commit, friendship or your love for each other?" They met as strangers in a classroom, never thought what future may bring them. They've started with plain friendly SMS messages to sweet late-night calls. A connection, which they can't intentionally disregard, was building up between them. They've never talked or conversed to each other but physical manifestations such as furtive glances and electrifying gazes made them understand something peculiar was going on. Finally, the boy couldn't take it anymore, he came up to her and talk to her as his very own best friend. Nothing else could ever surmount their friendship but their feelings for each other. They were anxious to express true feelings and level up their relationship status but they both feared their treasured friendship would be destroyed. One thing they knew, no matter what will be their status is, their love for each other will always prevail.

Love Story # 2

A young girl fell hopelessly in love with a boy. The boy fell in love with her, too. They were both young but they've already fallen into the burning flames of love. They've overcame a lot of trials already. The refusal of the girl's parents, nasty rumors and gossips about them, long-distance affair dilemmas, misunderstandings, and their vices. Temptations often tried to break their relationship apart but they've hold on. Their strong bond made their families grew closer to each other, trusting them with all their hearts.

Love Story # 3

A girl was secretly loving her friend. This friend loves to be with the girl for all he knew was he feels comfortable when she's around. The girl was so eager to tell her feelings but she can't do it. The friend has been desiring for the moment that he would confess it all to her. Everyday, they meet and sit with each other, both longing for more. Until now, fear reigns their hearts. Fear of loving and fear of losing.

These are just some of the love stories of the people I've encountered. There's one thing in common among them. All of them loved. Yes. Love. They may have the happy ending or the sad one but that doesn't matter for everyone of them is capable of loving. That is what these love stories are all about. I wonder when I would tell someone about my story.

The Fellowship

The word "FUN" is pretty bounty this day.

I had a lot of fun during our Inter-Campus Ministry Fellowship. Yes. I'm a Campus Minister. I'm not one of those who have the best voices around, but I'm pretty much proud that I could sing a bit to praise the Lord. Just don't try listening to me. I'm always flat in singing.

The fellowship was joined by a lot of students from different schools, including ours. The fellowship was about nurturing one's relationship with others through Jesus Christ. A guest speaker discussed about this. According to him, there are three dimensions of relationship: Intra-Personal, Inter-Personal, and Transcendental.
The first one is the relationship with your own self. The hardest enemy to conquer is the self. I agree. We have our own insecurities. We tend to look on our negative sides, ignoring our positive ones. What we should do first before building up relationships with others is to accept one's self.
The second one is about our relationships with others who are around us. It is not good to be alone. Man is a relational being. We build relationships and depend on those ties so we can live and survive the trials life may bring. To those who wanted to live all by themselves, well, my advice to you is live with this line, "We are meant to live with one another." You'll never reach your destination in life with no helping hands.
The third one emphasizes that we are not servants of Jesus Christ but we are His friends. It's our task to respond to that generous invitation. We should also treat Jesus as our friend. He initiated by dying on the cross because of us, his friends. And it's the greatest love, sacrificing one's life for the sake of his friends.
The speaker differentiated two kinds of love, acquisitive love and appreciative love. The former is the kind of love which we acquire only. This love arises from physical needs only. It's the most selfish and self-centered kind of love. No one could ever satisfy one's needs but God. The latter is the kind of love not based on needs but on our insights into beauty. It is enjoyed without being used up.
These are the things I've learned this day and I wanted to share them to all of you. This day I've met a couple of kids from different schools. It was fun especially when we played the parlor games. We may not have won the prizes but the best thing is that we were united as one and we've built up new relationships with each other. I'd love to get to know them.

It's The Play

In our Social Studies class, we were having a play about the ancient outrageous battles that marked our world history, The Battle of Marathon, The Battle of Thermophylae, and, The Battle of Salamis. We were divided into three groups to present these battles on stage. We were assigned to the great battle of Thermophylae.
It was about King Xerxes of Persia, son of Darius, building up his own army of 150 000 men and a navy of 600 ships to invade Greece and to avenge his father's death. The Greeks heard his amassing army. They also prepared their own forces while the Persians were building a bridge made up of boats tied together to get to Greece. They crossed the rugged mountains of Greece until they came into a narrow path called Thermophylae, and there, the Greeks were waiting. The two opposite forces squared off once again. The outnumbered Spartan soldiers led by King Leonidas stayed at Thermophylae to fight to death against the Persians.
Unfortunately, a Greek peasant named Ephialtes betrayed his own country when he personally went to King Xerxes. The traitor revealed the secret pass to Athens in exchange of gold. The Greeks were unexpectedly defeated and they retreated to the hills. The Persians conquered Athens.
We barely had a day and a half for scripting, directing and practicing, and three hours to make our props and costume and to rehearse. I was amazed at how my groupmates worked and tried their best to work this thing out. We successfully presented our play on stage just this afternoon.
Looking back, I couldn't imagine how we did it all in just two days. Well, maybe it's because of the cooperation and trust that we shared upon each other. It's because I trusted them. I've been learning on how to trust people to make things work out. I couldn't do it on my own. I love how it worked out. We may not know what will be the result of our hard work, but what's important is how we play our own roles to achieve our goals.

Feelings Blasted.

My fingers were itchy. I can't help it but post something about what I'm feeling now.

I was shocked. I was embarrassed. Practically, I feel like I'm sinking to the ground. I honestly can't explain everything what happened and shout it all to the world. I just want to let my feelings out by writing and blogging. It's the most convenient escape that I could ever do for now.
Letting one's feelings out is a thing that all must do in times when he/she felt like the world's upside down. Feelings of embarrassment, disappointment, anger, humiliation, displeasures, awkwardness, contempt, disdain and a lot more that could make you feel like you're about explode.
Have you felt something like this? When you've got nothing left to do but scream when you think about it and regret everything that has happened? Have you? I could not fathom what pain caused me. I could not even think right because what happened has invaded my mind.
Sometimes, in other people's cases, it could wreak havoc in someone's life. But now I've got nothinge else to do but try to get over this. I would recover soon. Hopefully.
It's a good thing that I've written something about how bad I'm feeling right now. I feel a lot better. I've blasted my feelings.

Triple Nine.

Three nine's. 999. It's the star number for today because it's September 9, 2009. It only happens for, like, a hundred years. So, I absolutely didn't want to miss posting with this significant date.

Defining What Can't Be Defined.

How do you define love in your own view? How do you contemplate it? I, as a writer and a blogger, have my own views about this. At this point of time and at my age of 15, I can't say I've been in love, and I'm falling in love. Well, especially when it comes with the opposite sex. Because right now and frankly speaking, I'm confused of what really this crazy thing called "love" is and how it works. So, let us evaluate the common definitions of LOVE defined by a major number of people.

• Love is blind. People who define that love is blind are the ones who experience negativity on their partners. They are blinded with the positives of their partners and they don't see what they're supposed to see that are negative. There are a lot of examples to this. One, a girl is crazy over a gorgeous and has the Edward Cullen looks guy but she was blind of his bad habits like smoking pot or drinking liquors. Two, a Brad Pitt-look alike guy is madly in love with an Ugly Betty-look alike girl but has a kind and true heart.
• Love is like a flowing river. Love flows gradually like a river. Its both ends at some points are connected with this flowing river. But with this definition. Only one is giving and the other is taking. Meaning to say, the river is headed to one destination, and it doesn't flow back to its starting point. Right? One is constantly giving away love while the other is receiving it but doesn't give back.
• Love is like a bubble gum. This one is one of the funniest that I've heard. It's the most sarcastic definition for me. They say it's like a bubble gum, when you swallow it, it would make you crazy. Love makes one deeplessly crazy making it feels like a bubble gum.
• Love is like a rose. A rose is beautiful yet full of thorns. Yes, it makes you happy but at a certain time, you'll feel pain.

Those are probably the definitions that I often hear from people who experience love. Yet, a lot of people opposed to these definitions. Why is that?

It's because each and everyone of us is different just how different we view love. We see things differently. We see LOVE in our own perspectives.

As for my own view, love is something that no one else but God could explain and define. God gave us LOVE. With this given gift, we share it to others unconditionally. We can define and explain the infamous Pythagorean Theorem. As human beings, we can't approximately and exactly define love in WORDS but we can show it indefinitely in ACTIONS.

But if I really have to define it in words it would be "Love is everything." But it's more than that. It makes you feel fulfilled, contented, happy, and all emotions there is because even in love, we experience hurts and pains. Love will never be love without pains. I see love everyday for I see God's love in my family and friends, in my countless daily blessings, in my studies, in my relationships with other people, in how I live throughout the day.

What I'm confused about is if I'm feeling love or falling in love now with a boy. As a teenager, I have full of doubts in terms of this. How do we ever know if it's already love? I guess I can say that love will find a natural way to understanding. Love will find a way to my heart.

Looking Up

I was mesmerized with these extraordinary sights of nature.
They're much more amazing in reality.

Everyday, I would look up the sky and gaze at the cloud formations. It's something that I do habitually. Whether it's rainy, cloudy or sunny. I love how the clouds move. Slowly yet when no one would notice the time, they have formed uniquely. It's because of the breezes and of the winds.
It's sometimes like how people live their lives. They don't look around and see how their lives are working. They don't notice that winds of life are changing them.

It's always good to look around.

my series of unfortunate events.

Actually, I'm about to hit the sacks now and visit my dreamland. I can't help but post something what happened yesterday. So, to start off, I'm having this question in mind, "How come when you are rushing and are having a very critical time, it's when you have the bad lucks, too?"
The day was supposed to be good because it's the start of a fresh school week but I started it off real bad. I woke up beyond my waking time. Something was wrong with my alarm clock. Darn. Obviously, I was a little beyond my schedule. I took my bath, with a usual duration time (can't afford to lessen it), and ate my breakfast quickly. Then, my brother and I hit the road with my Dad driving the car.
So here are the real things that have almost salvaged my day. Instead of taking the usual route in going to school, we went to the nearest bank so that my Dad can withdraw money for our allowance. But, hey, the nearest was offfline. Darn again. We rushed to the mall nearby (LKKS Center) and gladly, the ATM was online.
I was starting to feel the pressure because we stopped by a Vulcanizing Shop. Dad found out that a tire was flat. Darn again and again. So, we were about to rush and kick the Super Highway when the the damn traffic light flashed its red light. Oh, crap. I felt that I was totally running out of time. I let out a breath of relief when it signaled to Go.
Along the way, I kept on glancing at my watch, hopelessly wishing that time would stop. Then, when Dad was rushing, he was about to hit a man who's carelessly not looking at the road. Holy Mackerel. Fortunately. We were near to our destination when a car blocked the road as he was parking.
Finally, we reached school beyond 7:00, but fortunately, the flag ceremony hadn't start yet. So, for the day, that was my sign of luck, at the very least.
Then I realized that fate is sometimes bitter to those who believe in it. It is just a matter of consequences. Life is truly full of surprises, and people have their own series of unfortunate events.