Breathe

Ironically, the most innate and natural thing that humans learn to do at the moment of birth, is the one thing that they forget to do when they reach adulthood.

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Breathe.

We get so caught up in worldly things that we forget to take time out to breathe. Remember, work will still continue even if you are not around. No matter how valuable you are to your company, no one is ever indispensable in work, even the big bosses.

Breathe.

Don’t take good health for granted. When you grow old, you may have all the resources in the world, but if you are weak and sickly, you will not have the luxury of enjoying all these. Don’t ever forget that check-up you promised yourself “when you have the time.”

Breathe.

Take time to smell the flowers. Enjoy the scenery. Travel. And spend time with your family. In the end, they are the most precious treasures one will ever have, even when all has been lost or when everyone else has faded away.

Breathe.

You’ve only got this one life to live, so might as well live it to the fullest. Don’t get caught up with endless errands to finish, things to organize, and people to please. Your endless rants will accomplish nothing. Just live. And breathe.

Shattered Dreams

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I used to call them shattered dreams.

Contrary to the popular advertisement, impossible is not nothing. Sometimes, restraints, physical or otherwise, truly render some dreams unrealizable. For, how can a child stricken with brain cancer ever fulfill his or her dreams of becoming a doctor and finding a cure for the sickness that has befallen him or her? And how can a person of unsound and unstable mind ever find a profession in the real world without fear of triggers of violent tendencies or the like? So many factors need to be considered when “aiming for the stars” and “reaching your dreams.”

This mindset is not exactly being negative about one’s aspirations in life. In the end, we should not view them as shattered dreams. We just learn to be realistic, and dream dreams that are within one’s reach. It’s not a complete surrender of aiming for the stars. Rather, it is an acceptance of who we are, and of the limitations given us. And in doing so, that’s what will truly make us content and happy.

Continue to dream. No dream is ever shattered if it were impossible to achieve to begin with.