Oh My, It’s A Tuesday Already?!

Paking shee-yeth! Monday passed by in a blur, and today I’ve hit the ground running at 9am and it’s only now that I’ve had time to pause and go on The Show.

Sigh.

Busy, busy bee is me! Suddenly my team is loaded with work. We’re given a project that has yesterday for a deadline (so what else is new?) So now the whole project is like a runaway train barreling out of control and we’re just hanging on to it, trying our best to steer it to the path we want.

Times like these, I need a Juicy. Times like these, I get an email entitled “The Greatest Advice.” It’s a Desiderata-like piece, full of life lessons. Actually, a lot of it makes perfect sense, which is why I’m sharing the more relevant ones here in the hopes that certain people (you just know who you are!) will realize the truth to these words.

Thus, I present to you, selections from THE GREATEST ADVICE:

Don’t date because you are desperate.
Don’t marry because you are miserable.
Don’t philander because you think you are irresistible.
Don’t associate with people you can’t trust.

Don’t sleep around because you think you are old enough and know better.
Don’t stagnate.
Don’t regress.
Don’t put life on hold for possibly Mr. / Mrs. Right.
Don’t throw your life away on absolutely Mr. Wrong because your biological clock’s ticking.

Learn a new skill.
Find a new friend.
Start a new career.
Sometimes, there is no race to be won.
Only a price to be paid for some of life’s more hasty decisions.

Don’t bring another life into this world for all the wrong reasons.

Get rid of destructive elements: abusive friends, nasty habits, and dangerous liaisons.
Don’t abandon your responsibilities but don’t overdose on duty.

Be true to yourself.
Don’t commit when you are not ready.
Don’t keep others waiting needlessly.

Take care of yourself. Don’t wait for someone to take care of you.
You light up your life.
You drive yourself to your destination.
No one completes you—except YOU.

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After that profundity, let’s go kababawan!

Before and after:

Thanks to the wonderful scissors of Ipe! Mwah!
(Actually nag-shave na rin ako, so clean-cut na ang beauty ng lola n’yo.)