Quotes to ponder

“Life can never be perfect, they will never be;
Learn to survive the facts of life as they are not as what you want them to be.”
– Anonymous

I had encountered this quotation way back on my college days. I had used this quote on my quotation sharing activity on one of my subject. It had been timely at that time because I was going through some real hard family problem. What I didn’t realize is that it will become my guiding words all throughout my journey after my family’s ordeal. It hit me that I don’t have to write it down to remember it but had memorized it by heart.

I am a person who would do whatever is given to me for as long as I know my capability and ability could perform it and I can deliver. I push myself to the limit of my effort or more because how would I know how far can I go if I don’t try. I am afraid to fail but most of the times I accept it. It’s part of the journey. You don’t always get the best of everything. You can’t have the best of both worlds, as they say.

There were others who had contest me in the past saying I can always change my fate and not just believe and accept what is life giving me. Life is life and whatever there is to improve you then go but whatever there is that would bring you trouble, stop and turn around. If I change my fate, I ask myself can you see yourself not a teacher? Guess what? I smiled. I didn’t get a degree in education but I had been teaching for the most part of my life because that is how I see myself and that is where I am happy. I know the journey is not perfect, I got my stumbles from time to time but I know I had outshined them with all the other things I had accomplished. Small things it may seem. I had done my part as a teacher, I should know. I don’t claim the success of every student’s I had been able to teach but I know at least I had contributed to the steps they are taking to fulfill their dreams.

I spend the fact of my life day by day. My grandmother would tell me I don’t have a dream. Then I ask myself, “What do I dream?” I dream simple things, oh well, I would get too hypocrite if I say I really don’t dream having a good house or a beautiful car. I get to really admire those I see on the magazines or online but not really the desire to have one. I am living with my grandmother. Feeding her, my brother and an uncle with my own family is my dream. Sending my daughter to a good school and to finish college is my dream. Take good care of my 4 dogs and spend long time with them is my dream. To eat delicious food and travel a bit from time to time is one of my dreams. Oh! I have one dream I always wanted to have when I get to retire and that is to have a little farm, where my dog can run around, I have this small vegetable garden with a pond of beautiful fishes, surrounded with fruit bearing trees. My dream is nothing much really but it is something that enables me to keep grounded and be happy with my everyday dealings. Be contented! Happiness is nothing if you are not contented with what you have.

Then now I realize I have a dream! I dream for every single day of my life without me realizing I am actually accomplishing it step by step, day by day. You see a dream can be big or small it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you spend your life in a worthwhile manner and that you know you are with a purpose. If life thinks I deserve to get a very good house then destiny would help me get one. If life thinks I deserve to have a car even if I really don’t know much about it then destiny would help me have one. If life thinks I deserve what I have now, it may be this simple and small, who cares! I am happy and I am contented. I am at peace with myself and to the people around me. Life is to be celebrated day by day, that's the fact, live it positively and take out the negativity. Dreams or without what matter is that you are happy and you know why. Do you?