1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimers.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all that you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford!
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next country, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
10. Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.
11. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away...
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...but i'd like to add, always keep the faith and let God comes always first, then everything else will follow in their proper order :) pray a lot even if it is over and over again for God always listens. have patience for at the end He might as well grant your wishes, dreams and wants, let's hope :)
two pictures i took of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Shrine in Baclaran in two different years during vacations...the top one was taken at the end of June which is the fiesta of Baclaran aka Mother of Perpetual Help Day :) so you can see those nice colorful streamers above and the bottom was taken November, 2009 during a Pacquiao fight so you can see that there are just few devotees going to visit this church...but there is one weird thing in these two pics which i just noted yesterday... a man is present with the same reddish pinkish shirt in both pics that i took...are they the same person? if ever what is the chance of me snapping them years apart with the same clothes pa, laughs. i wish i'll know the answer...Nora Aunor singing a Tom Jones' song, " Help Yourself" hmn...yes, that will be a guy's line... those with more than one muse :) hope this accomplished lady gets back her golden voice...
