Love is Like a Growing Tree

It all started as a sapling, weak in her foundation (into the solid ground), shaky in her growth (into the windy air), and is very dependent on mother Sun for life. Her growth tell a story of struggle and perseverance. Each struggle is deeply engraved into herself.

Every formation of a brunch spiraling towards the sky shows her struggle for life and for the gift of sunlight from mother Sun. The victory of her numerous struggles is complete with her spread of her beautiful canopy, a view others could only appreciate from afar.

As she grows toward the sky, deeper her roots fan out into the father Earth. Each passing day, each passing moment, her roots become longer and deeper. Strengthen her foundation she did, unknowingly she has strengthen herself and her faith in her growth, against all odds.

One day, storm formulates, cyclone forms, sister wind blows as fierce as she wanted. Test sister wind wants, test is what the tree needs. For if the roots are strong, the growth is healthy, none will sway her faith in herself. Stronger she become, confident she is, of her future.

Moving Ahead, Making a Turn or U-Turning?

LIFE is like driving on the highway/motorway. Everyday is a new mileage driven through. Every new distance show a new scenery. Most sceneries are repetitive, with the greenery pasture, the cows mooing, the unique houses with their smoke raising from the chimneys. Along the journey, sooner or later, you have to make a decision to exit the highway. When do you filter-off from the highway is an art itself.

LIFE is also about making the right turn, that is, making the right decision. "When do we drop off from the highway," is the question asked by your inner self. "Should we make this turn, or should we wait," is the confusion we always have had within. But very often, we also ask ourselves, "Have we miss the right turn? And should we turn back or should we make the next turn?"

LIFE decision will not come easy basically. Time do not wait for people. The speed of the journey is fast and fast-paced the life is. Quick-second thinking and decision are good but also can lead to hasty and bad decisions. Slow and thoroughly-thought decisions are good but the journey did not stop meanwhile; and any bad mistake earlier will become worst.

LIFE journey is adjudicated by life decisions made earlier. Perhaps choosing to move ahead, conniving the turns and U-turns, is the easier route. There is no heartbreak about missing a turn, no second thought about making any turn, and no confusion and panic when faced with a U-turn sign ahead. Was it going to be the right decision? What lies ahead at the end of the highway? Is the highway record-breaking and has no end? If yes, good. If not, isn't then too late to turn? Does the "I told you so" sound cynical?

LIFE, the condition of existence, cannot tolerate turns and bounds. Like the wheels and brakes of the car braking hard before a turn, life get drawn and worn out after several turns. What's life is despair or the breakdown of your brakes, which is danger heading for a crash. "Can't we turn now, can we? And will we end the journey soon after the turn?" the puzzle is left riposted into the labyrinth.

LIFE is never conditioned for sudden stoppage and u-turn. Every decision must make it round through, just like the wheels of the car must make it wide turn to pull through the kerbs and obstacles. But to most people dismay, you are on the high-speed motorway. There is no u-turn. Only the professionals, the frequent dumper of baggages, know the art of drift-turning. No one else does it better.

The art of becoming a spare tyre

Cars drove on four wheels and that's perfectly what they are designed for. Pity the thick, black air-filled rubber tube that is residing in the boots of these cars. They are spare and sparingly they are used. And they are called "spare tyre".

Spare as they may be, but they are always nearly total new. They serve one and only one purpose, of importance during any unfortunate emergency, taking over when the normal tyre is gone. Apprehensive of its limitation, they are again quickly taken over by a new normal tyre at the earliest possible time. And back to the boot they went, hidden and indiscernible; having served their purposes. Who has actually open the boot to re-look at the spare tyre and its conditions again? Who knows its feeling?

C.H.A.N.G.E.

CHANGE - a simple word but with a profound meaning. To become different, altered, or to behave entirely transformed is not something people will do and do it willingly. Resistance to change is always but strong.

People get set into one form, and grow within this form, restraint but sometimes protected. Outside of this form is never their problem. They think it will take a disaster the size of a cyclone or earthquake to uproot them from their forms and push them onto the streets. But no, change is inevitable. The only constant thing in this world is change itself.

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming." - Anthony Robbins


To whom it matters,

And to one such person who is undergoing this inevitable change, I have to say this, or rather, by using a quote, the message becomes more powerful.

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." - Jim Rohn

actions et pas mots

I do not procrastinate any chance to serve a a dark angel. I do know that in doing so early, my actions can become ineffectual. However, I do not pretend to denigrate this scenario. Whatsoever, I stay stable in my actions, and consistent in my words. And I make no attempt to confound other's opinions and judgments. For me, this is the best way, as time, if really people do give me the require time, will tell whether my actions are right or wrong.

Women seek "advices", and that they do that often. What sort of "advices"? Unknowingly, they are actually seeking secondary "support" for what they have already intended to do/perform. To give in is to breed the roots of disaster. I pass!

My words are meant for the heart to hear. But alas, these words matter only if they do get past the natural filter of women's ears. Women like good words only. Decrypting them and understanding these words is another matter.

At the end of the day, it is actions that matter. Time is not on my side, unfortunately. But I have had learn to wait, wait for the right frame, wait for the right opportunity, wait for understanding. Don't shut the door just yet!

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. " - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The Dark Angel insde me...

DARK
- evil; iniquitous; wicked: a dark plot
- hard to understand; obscure

ANGEL
- a person having qualities generally attributed to an angel, as beauty, purity, or kindliness
- a person whose actions and thoughts are consistently virtuous


I profoundly pronounce that I am such a dark angel and I declared myself Darth Lodoss. Therefore, I balance and thereafter, few would have understood me and my actions.

A blessed angel always stay positive and aids those in need in pure ways; but what's after? Are those in need ready for the journey after this assistance is gone? This is where a blessed angel will not help.

A dark devil always pull and hold back assistance. More, the devil will destroy any hope still residue in those in need. What's lies ahead? There is none, alas, there is no hope.

Therefore, I took the middle path, assisting people but always reminding the negative aspects of life. How many people claimed to have understood such actions?


"Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "