CONFESSION FROM A DOG

“I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.”
~ Confucius ~

What is a meaningful life?

Devotion.

Devoting oneself to loving others, devoting oneself to one’s community, and devoting oneself to creating a life that gives one a meaning and a purpose.

Devotion is the essence for tenderness and empowerment cannot be substitute for it. In time of a dying life, true devotion is what one needs most to give the fulfillment one is looking for in that moment. Power, no matter how much one can have can never give that feelings one need the most.

Devotion is like marriage. Every marriage has its own problems. Some are about getting in it; others are about getting out of it.

Devotion is equivalent to a sturdy mind; it makes marriage a continuous journey. So one will not run away from the problems that are coming out of it. Instead one has to work at creating one’s own culture.

Devotion never makes shortsightedness the biggest defect. Devotion makes one sees what one could do while facing it. One should be looking at one’s potential, stretching oneself into everything one can become.

Remember, everyone is much alike. Everyone has the same beginning – birth – and the same end – death. So how different can everyone be?

Devotion in marriage is an investment. It is a huge network; investment in the human family leads to investment in people. It helps in building a little community. It doesn’t matter if those loved would love one back. Credits are not important. Devotion is a responsibility. This responsibility is about survival. In the beginning of life as an infant, one needs others to survive and at the end of it, one still needs others to survive. But one must remember, in between, one needs others to survive.

In this world now, it is the culture for the young people to rush into marriage and some years later, they get divorced.

Humans are sometimes so transparent. So much in most choices made, people do not know the real persons their partners are. Yet, how can they know who are they marrying when their partners themselves do not know who they are themselves?

This much has been learnt about marriage. Once tested, one will find out who one is, who the partner is and how to accommodate or don’t.

Without devotion, things in marriage are not that simple.

It has been mentioned; there are a few rules to be true about marriage;

(1) If one doesn’t respect the other, one is into a lot of trouble.
(2) If one doesn’t know how to compromise, one is into a lot of trouble.
(3) If one cannot talk openly about what goes on between them, one is into a lot of trouble.
(4) If a married couple doesn’t have a common set of values in life, one is into a lot of trouble.

However, it has been more difficult to oblige to the rules. The cultures that
society has built around themselves are calling for self-defensive measures against their partners. This is their only attempt to keep their sanity and bond the human family they have built. Though the strings are loosely bind as the efforts are mostly made mainly by them.

And so, devotion is their only charms. They have to work at it because of the love they have for their children. Since devotion is a responsibility and children are their main priorities, these help to pull them back together.

As a conclusion, my devotion has taught me a new belief. “All these while I know I have been slogging like a donkey, today I found out I am a dog.” And who would have blamed me?

I embossed my thoughts and sealed to my belief.



I am,

Tyro

NEVER A DYING THOUGHT ...

I was his anybody,
tried unsuccessfully to be his somebody,
and yet still am his nobody,
so like everybody,
who are his nobody,
because he has had his long-term somebodies.

I keep peace with his somebodies,
proving that I am not like everybody,
because I believe there is hardly anybody,
as positive as this nobody.

But I'll be somebody,
the one will stand up among everybody,
because nobody is anybody,
for I believe everyone is a special somebody to anybody.



Yours Truly,

Tyro

NEARING THE TRUTH ...

Would you ever learnt,
we are all ships,
ultimately we’ll sink,
sooner or later.

Would you ever learnt,
we are all the bobbing waves,
despite the ups and downs,
we’ll move towards crashing on the shore.

Would you ever learnt,
we are the realities of life,
we are the element to the concept of ever-changing world,
and in an instant all humanity can be wiped out.

WOULD YOU EVER LEARNT?!


I am,

Tyro

DESIDERATA, BABY!

Because of you …

It is yet to feel totally cynical about love,
in the face of aridity and disenchantments,
for whenever you are there,
love turns to be as perennial as the grass.

You are my surrender to things of youth,
you are the reasons to keep on achieving and keeping to plans,
you are the real possession in this humble life,
you are my changing fortunes of time.

You are the ignite,
to go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
a reason to find peace in silent,
a reason to speak truth quietly and clearly.

And in this noisy confusion of life,
the ability to keep peace within the soul,
looking at this beautiful world,
amid the shams, drudgery and broken dreams,
there is still cheerfulness,
a strive to be happy ….

Because of you!


Yours truly,

Tyro's Musing

FATE SUCCUMBS MANY A SPECIES, ONE ALONE JEOPARDISES ITSELF

Amongst the paragon of luxuries and true, blue signs of wealth it was a God-given blessed to find a living gem, an articulate being and an intellectual admiral. Would one have guessed that a walk amongst Italian fineries crafted and delivered with pride and arrogant display of prestige, a kinder spirit was the best display of the day?

It was a fateful meet. A meet decided by the One who created the faith and fate.

The prized possession was an aged sapphire. Aged; with grace, maturity and foresightedness in his stride. It was a smile during the first sight. Conversation drifted from the finer work of arts to a pearly of wisdom. The price was time but the shopping thirst was filled.

The talk was on inheritance. How much is much? Who gets what? When will it be right?

The man who had passed the prime of his youth, bedazzled with word, “Offer your children your inheritance while you are still alive. When they are young and their lust of money materials are at their best desires.”

Eyes blinked. Confused.

“One day, I called to my children, who were then in the finest of their youth. I was younger and stronger. I surely had more years to live. But I was ready to give them all the inheritance they deserve, as equally good as if I should be dead.”

“No, it wasn’t a bit the craziest idea. It came with a condition. The condition was a challenge for them to aim higher in their academic excellence, the higher everyone climbs, the higher the inheritance they got. In the end, money is not the reward, but the knowledge as well as skills they got help to see through life comfortably and as honorable individuals.”

Admiration one shall say about his philosophy.

Looking on the social matter that constantly need to be dealt with all these years, one will definitely deem to agree with the word from Will Smith, “Too many people spent the money they haven’t earn, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”

Words coming from a man who have Hollywood’s blockbusters around his belt, whose assets worth at least three luxury generations living and whose name click his hefty luck to the banks, would care to say these.

Put aside negative notion should there be any, importantly society today have much to learn the true philosophy behind the real meaning of inheritance.

Social philosophy is not a bad culture to adapt in building characters. Taking directly from Morrie Schwartz’s point of view, “We’ve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over again. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it – have it repeated to us – over and over again until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average people is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore. Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it, “Guess what I got? Guess what I got?”

A walk amongst the human displays in life, there is no deny on Morrie’s opinion. The societies we live in today, in majority, are slaves to money materials. The culture is such that the average men are trying to show off to the people at the top without realizing that they will be looked down on anyhow while showing off to people at the bottom who will only envy them.

The ignited theory to this is, the societies are people so hungry for love that they are accepting substitutes with the material things they embrace and expecting to be hug back, without realizing that these will never work! There is no substitute for love, for gentleness, for tenderness or for comradeship.

This is a WAKE UP CALL.

Before spending the money that are now getting doubly hard to be earned or buying things that are not purposeful or showing off by owning things just to impress others, one should think, how much could the money be well-invested in the name of the successors who will be here to continue battling this harsh world after we take our leave?


Yours truly,

Tyro's Musing

GOD'S MILL GRINDS SLOW, BUT SURE.

One eventful day some time ago, it read this ;

" ... she's only making use of you coz eventually she wants you out from her life ... sorry to say but this kind of wife is not for keep ..."

I then left it on these words ;

"As vessel is known by the sound, whether it is cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches, whether they are wise or foolish."

~Demosthenes~

"The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; and her constant companion is humility."

~C.C.Colton~

"He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error."

~Tyron Edwards~

"Some believe all that their parents, tutors and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

~Watts~

"There are five prayers, five times for prayers and five names of them - The first should be truth, the second what is right, the third charity in God's name, the fourth good intentions, the fifth praise and glory of God."

~Guru Nanak~

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark."

~Rabindranath Tagore~

"How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill. It is only the thought of the future that makes them great."

~Jean Paul Richter~

Then one day, I came upon that read this ;

"You told my daughter I Normal Academic? Please tell my daughter, no, you forget. It is not me. I don't want her to think lowly of me, even my husband doesn't know. Please."

And they come upon me ;

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

~Shakespear~

"He that loseth his honesty, hath noting else to lose."

~John Lyly~

I was raised to see how narrow a mind may get and let to suffrage when fails to see the truth ;

"Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and remains there, undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-building, assimilating fine ideas and making them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library."

~Swami Vivekanand~

For those who have spoken, with prejudices, without truth, ignoring facts, twisted tales, I believe ;

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."

~Anonymous~

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"

~Muarice Freehill~

Assimilating the past with the present, bring in a new thought ;

"It is a miserable state of mind to have too many things to desire and even too many things to fear."

~Tyro Musing~

She, who faces this should know these ;

"Academic qualification can't buy love, but education can improve on your bargaining positions in life-building, man-making and character-building. With that, a husband will never leave an illiterate wife and a child will think even highly of her."

~Tyro Musing~

Grateful and praise upon Him who gives me the courage to brave the tides and highs, the firm foundations to stand on muddy grounds, the grace to dance and flow amongst the jeering crowds, because at the end of the day, I know, I am dependent but to myself, taking ownerships, though some aren't meant for me.

Today I will start my life with a gentle pat on my back for I deserve the land I walk on and the place I sit on and the admirations (if there any), for they come from the honest and gratifying path.

Today I stop dreaming of the day with the scroll in my hands and mortar board on my head, the vengeful images I kept. When the day I am thriving for comes, my knees will be before Him and head will be much firmer and stronger on His ground. For He has given me lessons in life on His own time.

God, I have faith in You and shelter me through this journey. God Is Great!

Yours truly,

Tyro Musing

I WILL NOT BE DESPONDENT

I’m letting others cheer the winning women,
For there’s one I hold worthwhile;
‘tis she who does the best she can,
then loses with a smile.

Beaten she is but not to stay;
Down with the rank and file;
That lady will win some other day,
Who loses with a smile :)


Yours truly,

Tyro’s Musing