Musings About Blogging, Life and Yeah, Housework
by mathe | Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 5:12 am | Life as I See it |
Hi! guys!
It’s only six days since I last posted here but it feels like it’s been months or even years! It’s funny how some things we really love to do warp our view of time. Isn’t it that waiting to see someone we love makes time stretch like eternity? Or when we are with that someone already, and then we feel that time suddenly shifts gear and goes on fast forward mode? That’s what I mean.
Anyway, I don’t intend to lose myself in all these musings. Fact is, I’ve been remiss in my blogging and that’s it. It does not matter that the two boys got sick or that there’s still that unresolved issue of them going from one house to another everyday waiting for me to finish work and pick them up and bring them home.
Life goes on, they say and it is wise to live one day at a time. For today, when all my friends’ kids go to their after-school Dance Club, I have asked a friend’s mother who just arrived here in the UK from the Philippines, to pick up my son from school. God provides, really, even if it means bringing someone from Asia all the way to Europe, he he he!
Talking about life going on, I will be turning a year older later this week and what can I say? I love and welcome the passing of time and the growing older and the getting wiser that go with life. I read once about this woman who didn’t intend to grow old gracefully, but to fight it every step of the way. Lucky her, she has botox and plastic surgeons to rely on. I pity her, though, because she missed the point altogether.
Life should be taken as a whole package – growing old and wrinkled included. What a pity that people, women especially, put so much premium on looks and beauty when they know deep in their hearts that they are incapable of holding on to it forever. Why not just spend their energy on things more worthwhile like gaining more friends, planting more trees, making a lot more people happy or learning a new language or taking on a new hobby?
As I grow older each year, my perspective on life and love and what truly matters shifts sharply, much like how a camera’s vantage point changes when it is moved a meter away from its original position, so much so that my whole take on life gets altered, sharpened and improved.
This coming year of my life, I plan to write more and laugh more and reach out to others more openly. I intend to be more quiet and listen instead to others, be less demanding and give a chance for others to have more of my time and attention. I am not changing as a person, I am only getting more attuned to what truly matters in life.
Oh, by the way, I will get less housework done, too, because as I grow older, I seem to be more convinced that almost everything in life is a cycle. I do the laundry and the ironing and before I know it, the same items of clothing are back in the hamper for soiled clothes. I vacuum the floor like crazy and keep all the toys tidy in their own proper places and then I encounter them again – on the same spot where I picked them up earlier. I won’t fight a futile battle anymore. I will let things go as they are, selecting to do things only that are essential to survival and then I will be less cranky around the house, more pleasant to be with for the whole family and will have more time for blogging. Isn’t life blissful?
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Hello Mathe,Happy happy birthday. May you have more to come and more successes in all of your endeavors. You’ve written beautifully about a wiser perspective in life. I like most especially your realization that life isn’t life without those – strewn toys, right after tidying up, dirty laundry, etc. – these are necessary parts of living and should be “enjoyed” and not turn you into a cranky person.
We have to enjoy instead our time with our kids and tolerate their childlike imperfections (being untidy, etc.)
I have read an anecdote about a father who got mad upon seeing his son playing marble on the floor, and then getting angrier when he saw him with his socks on.
The kid was simply being a kid but the father failed to see this at that particular moment and had wanted his son to act like an adult person. Telling him to “stop playing on the floor as his socks an clothes will get dirty,” etc.
Luckily during the night,as he was looking at his son sleeping, he realized that he was just an ordinary kid who wanted to play. And this realization made him cry and he vowed that from then on he will allow his kid to enjoy his childhood, (and to play with him even) To h__…with dirty socks and soiled clothing.
Hurray for you Mathe, don’t bother so much on your sala set being messed up and your carpet being soiled; enjoy instead your time with your loved ones as time passes by so swiftly.
Take care and all the best.
Thank you ever so much, Jena Isle, for this comment. What can I say? You made my day!
Thanks again!
Hope to be back to more active blogging now. See you more often!
hi sis!
I’ve been greeting you since yesterday through your celfone (bka roaming). Then posted also in your multiply. Now, i remember this site! whew!
I like what you said here about the life package…very true! Sana what you post here are also posted in your multiply…
I’ll be meeting Jenn after my work at 12nn.
I think i’ll get my updates about you -here.
Ingat kapatid, regards to all there! Mwuah!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Hi! Teya! Thank you so much for remembering. I got your text and Multiply greetings. I am also aware that you and Jenn are meeting before he heads for Saudi again.
I miss you both. Take care!
Oh, by the way, please visit this site often.
Thanks!