We realize how we ought to be grateful for all the blessings we received.
We become grateful and appreciative. Of all the good. Little or big alike.
Then, of course, there's the bad part of the day, too.
Hey, that's reality. Life can't be all that good, right?
But rather than rave about the good, and on the other hand, rant and whine about the bad, I'd like to think of them as the highs and lows of my day. So here's a quick rundown of the highs and lows...
*HIGHS*
- my prayer time - spending quiet moments in prayer, reading the day's readings, writing on my journal, just keeping still and silent while appreciating the beautiful morning, nature in all its "morning glory", realizing all the more how blessed I am; all in all, this precious time spent in prayer is such an every day high, prepares me for the day ahead
- Playing translation with Chooboy.
This cracked me up after having a rather tiring morning. Basically, I woke up really early even after coming home late last night from Tacloban (more on this whining under the LOWS - hahaha). So when Choobs called me right before lunch I was all pissed and as Chooobs put it "so out of it". That's how we put it when we're not our usual self, so basically he knew I wasn't up to it. I just sounded tired. He tried cheering me up, I smiled a bit. He has that effect on me. But I was still tired and getting hungry. Eventually, I hang up and told him I'd just go on my lunch break, then call him back after.
After lunch, I went back to the office, and saw that he sent me an email. It cracked me up! He sent me pictures of his family during his dad's birthday party the past weekend. Then he added a foreign phrase at the end of the email. I asked him about it, he told me to google it.
ego diligo vos which is actually "i love you" in latin.
It was the sweetest, that simply cheered me up! (shallow noh? But it was sweet!)
So that started our translation game. We came up with cheesier lines, then translated them in Latin, then we'd send them to each other via Skype messaging. It was hilarious. Took all my tiredness away. After all, he has that effect on me (so I say again). Love this guy to death.
- My amazing, uber-talented cousin and friend Angela opened her boutique TSHILYS finally - this has been her longtime project and we're all just sooo proud of her! We sent her flowers and dropped by her shop after work, enjoyed refreshments (Juni gifted Tsils with our fave choco fountain - with all the mallows, yum!), and just chit-chatted with my other cousins, Juni, her hubby Martin, Monic, and my sister Yani.
- I got to have a nice chat with Lani, one of the sisters in my action group (read: action group is the basic unit of my community, Ang Lingkod ng Panginoon). It was such a high in the sense that I got to know her more through that good hour or so we spent having coffee/tea. She's such a sweet little girl and very nice one at that. Very very nice. It was sucha pleasure spending that time with her.
- MAC PARTY! After dropping by Tsils (aka Angela), spent the evening with Juni, Martin, and Monic for what we call a "Mac Party" (term coined by IdaMae, another dear cousin and my Mac mentor!). Monic just got her new Macbook and we welcomed her to our "club" (oh something we just came up on our own!) after months of inviting her and she'd just watch us explore and play with our own Macs. Finally, "she's one of us!" Hahaha. Such shallow high really. But it gave me a high nonetheless!
- coming home from a long day out of the house! such a big high, especially with my little sister, Bieni, giving me a big hug and a big kiss! Awww. Such a high!
*LOWS*
- I woke up at 6:15am (as in always!) despite the fact that I had such a looongngg trip to Tacloban last night, got home at 12:30am and slept at 1am+! I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't! So my day went on as usual despite the lack of sleep. Urrrggghhh.
- Talking to Choobs always gives me a high but missing him just makes talking to him such a low instead. I miss that guy like crazy. I thank God for him every single day, he's such an amazing person who brings so much joy and laughter to my life. This long distance relationship works well for us right now when we're both busy with work, but it's also taking its toll on us. So yeah, this is an every day low. :(
- I was tired and sleepy all day!!!
All in all, can't really say my lows were anything of the bad variety. After all, if I recall all the day's highs, they obviously outweigh all the lows! Simply put, focusing on the good part of the day is a high in itself - and we get to appreciate even the littlest highs, and the lows just fade away...
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