2013 speed to its end. There are things I enjoyed and things I did not enjoy. This quote was my best of 2013: "Waiting too long before acting is equally unfair to the people who need to get off the bus. For every minute you allow a person to continue holding a seat when you know that person will not make it in the end, you’re stealing a portion of his life, time that he could spend finding a better place where he could flourish." - Jim Collins
I enjoyed the quote from Richard Branson which I uplifted for my diary:)
Those early years were tough, he told Entrepreneur:
"I remember them vividly. It's far more difficult being a
small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with
thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a
business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's
difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and
only one word really matters — and that's surviving." This quote is a reminder of the many times the company(Wasamundi) I'm trying to build with my pal @quincy_k was at the tipping point. Many times we came to the point where we said this is it. We are death. But each of these times something happens without our power to pull us out of the situation. I believe it's our deep instinct to survive. I always repeat to my self, what is most essential is staying alive. If you die, no one would recall what you wanted to do. Staying alive is the most important thing for an Entrepreneur. it's the most important thing in Life anyway.
Everything is cheap. Except things not bought with money.
They are the best things in Life, which are free. Like Air and the Heart.
Don't live cheap, live fully with your heart.
I've come to believe these things revolve around the decision of true happiness.
The news of Whitney Houston's dead this morning is a reminder of a blog post I was suppose to to publish.
In all my life I dodged from looking at corpses or even try to think while I went to or was brought near some one who is lying waiting to be buried.
Well this fear had old founding, basically because:
as I child I was told when you see a corpse you shall see the dead person while you sleep and walk at night.-- these were all childhood fears.
The fear of dead, no matter how hard I try to pretend.
Then last December, someone died whom I knew so I said to my self, this is the time for me to get close to the dead; as if I had a choice.
While at the mortuary, I experienced first hand dead bodies. While people where standing, passing here and there, doing this and that. I stood still only thinking: "how did this people live and now they are dead just like that". Seeing how the body was motionless, how the skin has deteriorated, how the person who had breathe could breathe no more.
This is not a new question for me but because I came close to dead bodies the question became part of me, part of my thinking as a whole.
Naturally every living being should be afraid to die.
My experience in coming close to the dead only reminded me of the life lessons, of how useless you become and lose form once you die.
Of how precious you should treat life and Live.
The greatest love of all: “To love others you must first love yourself.”
Then I recall my Love and Life teacher: Leo Buscalgia - 1924-1998.
“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for
the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.” --Leo F. Buscaglia Quotes from Leo .
In one of and the best of his works I've read, he lays emphasis
"Death should be our teacher" - to teach us how to live.
Living to me is:
making others happy,
that there should be no tear,
no suffering
that there should be love.
But life is difficult;
trying to make ends meet,
trying to leave a legacy, trying to live and love not only you but love others as much as you love you;
trying not to be sad,
trying not to compete with others but with yourself no matter how they force you,
trying to be happy alwaysand make others happy,
trying to achieve a dream even when every one but you see it,
trying not to be afraid
trying to focus and not get distracted
Trying to avoid pain, hate and hurt,
Surviving is though even if you have all things
Trying and trying until you reach a point where you no longer have to try.
And in the end, all this trying to live ends in Death. So that when you have achieved all what you call life, when you have achieved what you were living for, when you have achieved the why of creation and existence, then you should be proud of death as you are to be of rest after a long working day.
Prayer:
Lord teach me how to live in such a manner that I will not fear death, even when I see it.
I had a premonition yesterday. I told Quincy and some friends I was hanging out with that: "Someone I know or Someone connected to me is about to die". Well, I'm not sure it was about this death, except part of me was actually deep rooted in the singer's songs of which I did pay less attention to this connection till now?!. This morning getting up at 7:00am I learn from It's Quincy and Facebook that the Legendary singer Whitney Houston is dead, today 12th, February, 2012 at 3:00am at 48.
Remember One of my life decisions this year is to take a shock without expressing it in sadness emoticon. I should have made a sadness emoticon blog post for her death.
I will remember you for:
The lives you touched.
The light you put in people even when you were stumbling into darkness.
For the courage you instill in me and as I grew up to understood the greatest love of all.
I learning first from you that there is Greatness in Every being.
For your beautiful and peaceful voice, very great energy.
For the song that touch me more as I grew up as a child, till moment and forever:
For the song I heard more by you played by those around me:
Thank you for the life you lived: I Will Always Love You! R.I.P.
I always thought new year's resolutions are clearly pointless.
Simply because I end up losing vision of the resolution somewhere along the line or I get stuck in a thinking because of a certain resolution. After assessing the long list of resolutions for last year, I noticed that I had more than 55% of success. I was shocked.
I was making new year resolutions and this is part of my list . I just uplifted and I hope I can write mine in the Open diary :). Matt Might new year resolutions:
Read at least 12 hardback books from Cover to back - including novels.
Get closer and comit to God - read my bible often and attend fellowship more.
Do exercise often and learn a new sport.
Learn a new Computer programming language.
Keep to time more. Be a better time manager. Don't be late.
Act nicer to people I don't like, act nicer to the people I do like.
Watch more movies that make more meaning. Watch more family movies. The movies do not need to be a list movies.
I spent some quality time today away from my computer. I mean from writing codes cause I've been watching movies from the computer :). I picked "Drive" as one of the best movies for this year: I love the soundtrack by the College feat. Electric Youth - A Real Hero. Then I ask who is a real hero. I think every human being who successfully lives through the challenges of a day is a Hero: A Real Hero. Enjoy the lyrics of the song and the song:
‘A Real Hero’
Real human being, being… (repeat)
and a real hero, hero… (repeat)
Back against the wall at odds
With the strength of the will and a cause
Your pursuits are called “outstanding”, though emotionally complex.
Against the grain of dystopic claims
of the thoughts your actions entertain, and you have proved to be
A real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being (repeat)
A pilot on a cold, cold morn,
One hundred fifty-five people on board,
All safe and all rescued,
From the slowly sinking ship.
All are warmer than his head so cool,
In that tight bind knew what to do, and you have proved to be
A real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being,
Real human being,
Real human being
(To fade)
College feat. Electric Youth
‘A Real Hero’
Carey Mulligan , I particularly liked her; don't ask me why! Ah I saw her the last week in Wallstreet: Money never sleeps, humm....great acting. She just connects with you. Ok!
