A Transparent Glass of Water
*Probably most of you will notice that the title is kinda weird, but if you read this thoroughly, then you will realize why I entitled it this way.*
Happy reading everyone! 🤗
We humans have different perspectives in life. The way on how we look at things, how these can affect us, change us and make us someone we have hoped for or be someone that we have not ever thought of.
These differences make us view things differently that sometimes we relate ourselves and depend ourselves upon it. There are times in life where we do reflections to learn something new to ourselves, to reassess on things and to change habits that we must not do any longer.
I am the type of person who is very pessimistic on how I view and assume things in life. And during this time of pandemic, I realized that I became more pessimistic than before. A person who always look negatively and someone who always look at the darkest side. Always this time, I cannot help myself to think about those negative things in life, those bad events that happened and might happen, killer thoughts that keeps awake, what ifs and whatnots.
I am considering myself as a ***transparent glass of water. But that transparent glass is not full.*** In life, there are many events that we did not expect to come and happen and some are just the things that we have looked forward before. However, nowadays, where everyone is staying inside their houses, with no physical touch with their loved ones and cannot do the things they used to do, I cannot help myself to think negatively about what is happening to us, where I am today and who am I going to be in the future. I am not happy. I don’t have a peace of mind. I can’t stop overthinking. My anxiety is always attacking me every night. And I can’t look at things the way how I used to look at it before and the monster inside my head is slowly eating me.
And now, I am considering myself as ***transparent glass with half-empty of water.*** Aside from not being full, I am also a transparent person. In my everyday battle with myself, I feel like I am invisible, a transparent person. Even though I always seek for attention, love and care, it always seems like nobody can see me and all of them are ignoring me. These thoughts of mine are something that I am sure to say that I’m not the only one who look at myself like a half-empty glass of water during this time. I hate to say this, but in our generation, it seems like negative thinking is now part of our culture. We hate it. I hate it so much. It is really breaking my positive mindset.
Every time that I am holding a ***transparent glass of water which is not full, but a half-empty one,*** I can’t help myself to reflect that instead of going up, reaching my dreams, it makes me feel like I am almost done. That I can’t reach any of my dreams, that no matter how hard I try, I can’t reach at least one of those. An everyday battle of mine, and every one during this time is not easy. I always try to lift myself up. To look for something that will help me on internet when I have free time or after being bombarded by formative assessments and different tasks that we have inside our homes. I try to read motivational books and blogs, inspirational movies or any that will help me to overcome this negativity that I have.
As time goes by, I came to the point where I realized that there is nothing wrong of thinking negatively but what makes it not good to our health is if we let these thoughts overpower our positive thoughts. It is fine to think negative things to ready ourselves on what might happen, to be prepared and for us not to be shocked but we should not let ourselves be focused on these things.
I know and I consider myself as a ***transparent glass of water still. But this transparent glass is not as what you think as I said earlier because I look at myself today as a half-full glass of water.*** Yes, I am now thinking positively. If today it is still not full then try to remember yesterday, about the past, the time where you were just an empty glass of water and look where you are now. Although I am still not a full glass of water or I am not still at the peak of my life and my dreams are not yet fulfilled and reached, I know that I am a capable person because I have my God. I know that I will come to that day. I know that I am almost there. A little more of hard work, sacrifices, determination and by keeping the faith, I am confident to say that I will be there and I can’t wait to say that I am finally full and living in my dreams.
***This transparent glass of water helps me find and know myself better and it created a person that really surprised me, that person is me.*** The person I have not ever thought that I could be. And, what makes this object different from others is it can make a person’s perspective in life broader than anything else. It will teach you how you look at yourself, view things in life and how you must react to it. As I said earlier, we have different perspectives in life and I know and believe to myself that the best thing to relate ourselves is in a transparent glass of water. It is up to us on how we will look at it. Although the glass doesn’t have enough water, it will make us more strategic, more faithful, more determined, more hard working, and it will make us do better and be better.
*Holding this transparent glass is not easy if you look at it as half-empty, most especially when you are tired and alone. But if you look at it as half-full, the day will come where you can finally share this glass of water that contains a lot of stories and experiences to share to others-- stories and experiences that can probably change their lives like yours.*
How about you? Do you also consider yourself as a transparent glass of water? If yes, which one? A half-empty glass of water or a half-full one?
Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope you like and enjoy this! 🖤
God bless and keep safe everyone! 🤗
The Changes Brought by the Pandemic: The Negatives and The Positives
COVID-19 Pandemic has been recognized as one of the most deadliest pandemic ever happened in the world's history. And it brought different changes in the lives of many people around the world.
"The community closes at eight in the evening"
A lot of us are directed to wear face masks wherever we go. Classes for all levels had been cancelled. Most of the crowded, go-to establishments such as malls and recreational centers were ordered to close. Road operations and public transportation services were suspended. Many public and private institutions were discouraged to do its normal operations, suggested to rather work-from-home. Many people shut their doors for the news says "stay home, save lives". The lockdown happened in many parts of our country. The government ordered to practice social distancing whenever we go out, at least one meter away from any other person. Also many local government units presented new market schedule for every barangays, established to lessen any physical contact among individuals. There has been mass confusion, rage, fear all the way to the day when they began to hear of new pandemic virus, then named COVID-19.
The world stopped. We encounter and witness the different faces of pandemic. This become the new normal, but how long can the world get through this?
As of the moment, this pandemic has appeared to be one of the most alarming health crisis that our country had ever encountered. Many people, either ordinary or professional one are greatly affected. In education, both teachers and students are having difficulty in adjusting and adapting in the new normal set of education. In the world of business, there are a lot of business gone bankrupt and some are forced to be closed for health purposes. This really become a huge challenge for every businessman. Meanwhile, in the world of politics, politician's efforts seemed to be very inadequate to resolve this problem and to provide the needs and concerns of every citizens. With this, they are being criticized specifically in various social media platforms.
Talking about social media, in the world of online business, and for people whose having an online business, this pandemic had become their advantage from the others. In this time of pandemic, online businesses are indeed helpful as these served as the first and most common source of income by many people since almost all forms of communications, interactions and transactions are done online. But then again, of all the alternative ways that people can do just to survive this pandemic, these are still not enough to fill the gap that the normal situation has given us before.
Normal living these days is a routine for everyone who goes in and out of their houses. The novel coronavirus can live up to three days on surfaces and can easily be transmitted from person to person. You can imagine the emerging terror in everyone, including me, who comes out of my home just to do grocery shopping because this time it is not normal to go outside; for being outside likely means exposure to the disease-causing virus. It is in the news, if you went out, you cannot directly head straight inside your house. It is either you take a bath first or disinfect with alcohols-- every inch, wash your hands with a bar soup for at least twenty seconds, sanitize the things you brought and bought outside, immediately take take-off and wash clothes worn outside and wash away any trace of it. This is what me and my family literally do. This recurring customary is most likely the same to everybody.
If buying things outside sounds terrifying nowadays, you can probably tell how hard the job is for everyone else on the field. The doctors, nurses, police force and many other task force groups were put in frontline, sporting the new term for modern day heroes--the front liners.
As days go by, with us being directed to stay home, the general populace is gradually tracing some catastrophic situations such as no work, no play, and unemployment which could mean living in a hand-to-mouth existence. Through the government and private institutions pledged and offered help to feed the needy, the current situational crisis is for long-term and may bring unforseen circumstances. That being said is a true challenge for everyone to come up with new life-skills to keep on living with the presence of this pandemic.
On the brighter side, the pandemic also taught us myriad of lessons about life. How important it is to make time for your family, to have bonding time with them and talk about each other's feelings and emotions. The parents being able to check their child's current state and mental health during this pandemic is also one important thing. This pandemic has brought awareness about practicing better hygiene. People are now aware of how important is to keep cleanliness to themselves. We now always observe the hygienic deeds like covering our mouths when we cough and sanitizing our hands after touching objects or things.
The new normal is keeping people to stay at home to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission from humans to humans. Not until these vaccines can cure all the people who are infected by this virus, everything may never turn to what exactly they were before. The only things that we could do right now are to help ourselves and the front liners to lessen the spread of this disease-causing virus, to understand and obey the protocols of the government and of our medical practitioners.
Stay inside. Be safe and well. Make yourself in line with the better purpose, so you can go or just stay home when the "community opens at five in the morning, the next day."
In conclusion, this pandemic is undeniably become a big challenge for many people all over the world. This tested their faith, their limitations as a person, and their passion and determination to still strive for the better while battling to this pandemic. For many, this is an occlusion or hindrance in pursuing their dreams and aspirations in life. But for some, this pandemic only served as a wake up call and realization that life is really difficult to deal with, and in order to get through life challenges, one must have faith, positive mentality and self-assertion for at the end of the day this is not only a fight between us and the pandemic but also a battle between us and ourselves.
*"This pandemic really brought different changes to our lives (negatives and positives), but always remember to look at the brighter side for tomorrow will be better."*
Hope you enjoy reading this! 🖤
Manner Matters: Attitude Is Better Than Knowledge
"Attitude trumps knowledge because it allows one to get more done in life."
A good and positive attitude in life makes it more likely that a person will achieve whatever endeavors that they attempt. Knowledge is only significant when one already has the attitude and drive that will propel them to finish their task. Attitude and knowledge are more beneficial when used in conjuction, but when they are separated from each other, then attitude should be more helpful than just knowledge alone.
In addition, attitude is what holds people together. One can teach people who are willing to learn things. But people with bad attitude are hard to teach because they already think they knew it, there are challenges regarding teaching them. Attitude will get your foot in the door and knowledge will get you growing further ahead of the game.
Moreover, attitude can also ultimately gets people farther. There are a lot of smart people in the world, even people who study hard and equipped with so much knowledge but when it is time to go out in the real world, they do not have the right attitude to apply their knowledge.
Therefore, people who have better attitudes do a lot better and go a lot farther, even if they don't have all the knowledge.
Indeed, attitude is better than knowledge because mere knowledge without the right attitude and perseverance is useless. And remember, that not only knowledge will determine someone's success in life but good attitude as well.
"So now, lets start developing a good attitude towards everything."
Hope you enjoy reading this! 🖤
My Own Pandemic Poem: 'Today is the Day'
Today is the Day
Today is the day where people need to survive
There are many things that need to sacrifice
And most people rely on various online device
As this is one way to survive and to stay alive.
Today is the day where people need to value life
And there are a lot of things they need to realize
Like the importance of having a strong family ties
Who will stay at their side and help them to survive.
Today is the day where people need faith and sanity
Together with camaraderie and generosity
As today's world is full of mystery and uncertainty
And everything has no guarantee.
Today is the day where people need to accept the fact
That this deadly disease has a lot of negative impact
As it made people to face a more challenging life
And it made the world to show its dangerous side.
Note: This pandemic poem was composed by yours truly. Hope you like and enjoy reading this! 🖤
Advantages and Disadvantages of Taekwondo
Introduction
Its undeniable that taekwondo is considered as one of the highly form of self defense that everyone can use to protect themselves from other people, specially to those who have bad intentions. Though learning taekwondo perhaps difficult, it requires effort and determination to expertise this kind of martial arts.
Moreover, a learner must be well-oriented that taekwondo are being designed for a good purpose and learning it have advantages and disadvantages which affect whether our physical, mental or even emotional health.
To better understanding, here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of taekwondo.
Advantages of Taekwondo
Physical Health. It will increase our flexibility because before and after we do a taekwondo class, we must go through a series of stretches where in it loosens and limbers our muscles, getting ready for streneous activity and greatly reducing the chances of suffering from an injury such as pulled muscles.
Emotional Health. It will increase our confidence and self-esteem, since taekwondo involves various different poses, patterns, moves, strikes and anything else, every single time we learn a new move and we perfect it, it gives us a confidence booster and its simple as feeling good because we have accomplished something.
Mental Health. It will improve our goal setting and self-discipline because learning taekwondo is a great way to learn how to set and meet goals, as well as having the discipline to meet those goals, although we might have to practice for countless hours before we master a certain move or strike, but once we do it we can feel great about achieving our goals.
Disadvantages of Taekwondo
Physical Health. Having strains and body injuries. There are several injuries that can result from an aggressive practice, one is broken nose, which usually results from a powerful kick to the face. When striking boards and tiles, students can fracture their carpal bones, which can be painful and difficult to recover from.
Emotional Health. It may lead to frustration because sometimes during practices, students may be able to work off some inner frustrations, but it can get through learning combat where no real strikes or follow-through are encouraged. In particularly aggressive combat situation, students may feel frustrated.
Mental Health. It may occasionally leads to a false sense of security. Students earning status at their very young age often get a false sense of security meaning, they usually believe that they could defend themselves in a confrontation with someone who is perhaps far bigger or more dangerous. Often this leads to students putting themselves in situations they cannot handle, just because they feel secure (falsely).
Conclusion
From the above mentioned advantages and disadvantages of taekwondo, basically it is not suitable for everyone, but if you are willing to dedicate a lot of time and effort to it and willing to focus on practicing it the proper way, then it will benefits you a lot and it will adds value to your life.
Better Philippine Educational Curriculum: Student's Weapon For A Better Future
Philippine educational curriculum has evolved and developed throughout the years. It could be seen that every changes in the curriculum brought a great impacts to the students.
Now, today's educational curriculum in the Philippines is undeniably useful for the overall development of students in various aspects of life. This could also students whose more willing and determined to make a difference and to bring change to the world.In addition, it truly helps the students to become ready and prepared to different changes and challenges the world may bring in the near future.
However, even though it is already considered as a good curriculum, it could still become better for there's always a room for improvement and if that happens it would become easy for the students to have a better future.
Schools having a better curriculum to share with their students is really a good thing. From this, they can able to produce students whose more willing and determined to make a difference and to bring change to the world.
Moreover, it would also help students to gain more knowlegde and values, to develop their potentials and capabilities, to enhance their skills and talents, to identify their strenghts and to improve their weaknesses that they surely need in the future.
If students are able to achieve all these through better curriculum, then probably, they would have a greater chance to have a brighter future. To put it simply, a better curriculum is indeed helpful for the students to develop themselves wholly, to pursue their dreams in life and to be successful in the future.
In conclusion, education itself could surely give students the chance of having a successful life but a good quality education with better curriculum could give them assurance and this could also served as their weapon to have a better future someday.
@EmrysAmeer26
