On to VT-86 Advance Syllabus...
Finally...I've completed my intermediate phase and leaving VT-4 Warbucks Squadron for VT-86 Sabrehawks. Having accomplished my intermediate phase is by no means an easy task. Lots of late nights and very early mornings...but I hear it only gets worse from here...Watched a couple of very good movies this week, (memoirs of a geisha, Donnie darko, the butterfly effect and Munich) got the book 'memoirs of a geisha' and have been reading it...never really understood the joys of reading but with this book I really got sucked into it, much like I did with "the notebook" and now I’m beginning to really like reading...it's kinda like a getaway for me....well, watching 'Munich' tonight was really an eye-opener for me as well...with 'black September', 'the Munich massacre' and the 'never ending war between the Palestine and Israel'...very interesting indeed and very hard to explain...so...go watch it...though it's like 2 plus hours long...have in mind that it's a true story...it's really worth the time...so here's abit about it...taken from WIKIPEDIA.com...where you can find anything about everything...really resourceful site...
Does moving on in life necessarily mean leaving behind people or things? Does holding on to what is deemed to be past, not moving forward? Why do people hold on to things so tightly even when it is told to be wrong?
People tend to loose themselves, the meaning of their being whenever they "move forward" in life. They give up or should I say sacrifice happiness for they is told to them to be the right thing to do, the way to find true happiness...but frankly, who really does know? Even having been through a lot in life, I am still in no position or authority to make things right for another...because everyone faces life differently, life changes and reacting or behaving in a certain way may not forever and always be the right way. Adaptability and spontaneity is the only way one will find himself and the way of life which is his own, uniquely his/hers. This is not to say - give up your religion or do not listen to your elders - but more of 'with the grace and guidance of our lord, and using the gifts he has given to us-individual, different, unique gifts - and also having advice from others (taken with a pinch of salt) will help in your growth as an individual’s - this is very different from "listen to what I have to say and do as I do because I’ve been through it and my way is the gospel truth..."
So for me, self realizing that, yes, at times you have to 'sacrifice' parts of your past to move on, but, holding on to certain things in your past makes you who you are and gives you some meaning to what you are. There is no right or wrong answer to what you can or cannot do but more so, at times holding on tightly to what you know is part of what makes you, is an individual's choice. A choice that only you and you alone can make. Let no other tell you what you must or mustn't do but have your principles, morals and believes in the right place, paving your own path is most definitely the way to go. Do not try to be another, to be what you're not...aspirations are good self-building helping tools but they should never be 'goals in life'. You should in simple words - BE YOURSELF!
Having seen the movie MUNICH, I realize many people are killing and dying and even changing for a cause that is not their own...they have been told & manipulated to believe that this is what is good for them, their future...sadly enough..this is all bull...
Today, I’ve come to see that with the pressures of everyday life and the stressors at home and work...being true to what I am is really the only true and happy way I should and must live my life. For long enough have I been listening to others - though sometimes I take longer to react - but still, this should be my life and I should be living it my way...and people should not worry about decisions I make or things I do because with God as my guide, mistakes are all but a learning process and even if I have to fall a million times...it is only for me to grow up, to be stronger...having pillows cushion every fall does not make me a man...it is the hard knocks that make who I want to be and who I almost am...let me fall if I have to and do not lend a helping hand...I can stand up again and walk tall for I have him by my side...
you may think you know what is good for me and what I want...but sit back and think again...if is it really all about you and how you would feel or be...then really...it's not about me, is it?
Another week passes...a few more questions answered, a few more inches of eye opening, a few more steps to being me...to being happy...
The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September – a group within Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization. The kidnappers eventually murdered 11 Israeli athletes, nine of them during the botched German rescue attempt, and one German police officer. Five of the eight kidnappers were also killed by police during the rescue attempt, with the three captured surviving kidnappers later being released by Germany following the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner. In response to the attack, Israel planned and carried out the assassination of a number of individuals who were said to have been responsible. Although it was believed that two of the three surviving kidnappers were killed as part of these reprisals, some recent evidence appears to indicate otherwise. Simon Reeve wrote that the Munich massacre was one of the most significant terror attacks of recent times, one that "thrust the Palestinian cause into the world spotlight, set the tone for decades of conflict in the Middle East, and launched a new era of international terrorism.
Does moving on in life necessarily mean leaving behind people or things? Does holding on to what is deemed to be past, not moving forward? Why do people hold on to things so tightly even when it is told to be wrong?
People tend to loose themselves, the meaning of their being whenever they "move forward" in life. They give up or should I say sacrifice happiness for they is told to them to be the right thing to do, the way to find true happiness...but frankly, who really does know? Even having been through a lot in life, I am still in no position or authority to make things right for another...because everyone faces life differently, life changes and reacting or behaving in a certain way may not forever and always be the right way. Adaptability and spontaneity is the only way one will find himself and the way of life which is his own, uniquely his/hers. This is not to say - give up your religion or do not listen to your elders - but more of 'with the grace and guidance of our lord, and using the gifts he has given to us-individual, different, unique gifts - and also having advice from others (taken with a pinch of salt) will help in your growth as an individual’s - this is very different from "listen to what I have to say and do as I do because I’ve been through it and my way is the gospel truth..."
So for me, self realizing that, yes, at times you have to 'sacrifice' parts of your past to move on, but, holding on to certain things in your past makes you who you are and gives you some meaning to what you are. There is no right or wrong answer to what you can or cannot do but more so, at times holding on tightly to what you know is part of what makes you, is an individual's choice. A choice that only you and you alone can make. Let no other tell you what you must or mustn't do but have your principles, morals and believes in the right place, paving your own path is most definitely the way to go. Do not try to be another, to be what you're not...aspirations are good self-building helping tools but they should never be 'goals in life'. You should in simple words - BE YOURSELF!
Having seen the movie MUNICH, I realize many people are killing and dying and even changing for a cause that is not their own...they have been told & manipulated to believe that this is what is good for them, their future...sadly enough..this is all bull...
Today, I’ve come to see that with the pressures of everyday life and the stressors at home and work...being true to what I am is really the only true and happy way I should and must live my life. For long enough have I been listening to others - though sometimes I take longer to react - but still, this should be my life and I should be living it my way...and people should not worry about decisions I make or things I do because with God as my guide, mistakes are all but a learning process and even if I have to fall a million times...it is only for me to grow up, to be stronger...having pillows cushion every fall does not make me a man...it is the hard knocks that make who I want to be and who I almost am...let me fall if I have to and do not lend a helping hand...I can stand up again and walk tall for I have him by my side...
you may think you know what is good for me and what I want...but sit back and think again...if is it really all about you and how you would feel or be...then really...it's not about me, is it?
Another week passes...a few more questions answered, a few more inches of eye opening, a few more steps to being me...to being happy...