Intellectualizing our life (LOVE)

Thanks Johnny, your opinions merit that of our generation expectations.

Love born and nourished out of honesty and trust.

The true pillars of a strong and solid relationship is transparency and openness, a most underrated value overlooked by our fears and insecurities.

Thanks Johnny.

Sunday rose

KN my beautiful friend. Choices we're accorded as women living in the first world is of paramount privilege as others born in the third world would never dream of.

I'm with you all the way through.

Yes I might add, about building life together where our aspirations and dreams do get materialized in our journey together.

A most excellent example are Melissa and Bill Gates. Where they stand today as when they started. A most compelling journey of what anyone can possibly do.

KC my most erudite friend. Very well noted.
Only I have to comment on your last lines. Wishes are just that. Nothing more than a wishful thinking. It will not happen yet if we work towards unity with whom we fell with, then reality is not an impossible admonition.

Thanks

Hi girl hope you are doing well!

Obs, my most politically opinionated friend of mine. My admiration and respect to your comments on my blog singled out as most common on your account is of great and high value for me. I want to underline that. Your contributions and or additions however opposing they are sometimes are source of my great learning experience.

I am indebted always on your time and effort and I am honored on the merits of your accounts.

I don't disagree with you. But this is dependent on two dimensions. Who is talking and where you are coming from.

Take the global effect of our dysfunction in terms of our socio-economic system. UN just upgraded their statistics as to the spiraling economic level of the world for about 80 percent as opposed to the rise of the 20 percent.

You of course hails from the seat of the privileged and the elites, would you care to stand and represent those that are in the 80 percent? Or would you be like a saint patronizing your self centeredness and or egotistical bearings as you ride with the benefit of the social order made for you. Sleeping in a warm blanket, eating with your expensive silver wares. putting on a a suit that can cost a lifetime wage of those from the third world would entitle you to ignore the plight of those that can't even know the sweet smell of candy and chocolate?

Of course I am privileged to not use love as a means of survival and I do appreciate that, but for those who indulge into caprciousness because they have to have what is out there, that just makes me sick.

The playground of the rich and famous just got limited to those who manipulate love as a means of sustaining concept to fulfill this highly commercialized world.

But it is a matter of perception and opinion I guess. I remember Imelda Marcos, where once she was asked of the starving many in her country and snapped out almost like a blade that bled my heart and said: "oh but they're happy"

What a concept that is, poverty masked with smile on the faces of those poor people is license to ignite more greed to breed.

Thanks..

its only after that initial flutter that we start looking deeper , and that is when many complicate that that is not complicated ,and that is how the love you looking for passes u by

JW thanks for your visit. First time I see you on my blog.

Yes indeed, don't you love those grand feeling of discomfort and uneasiness when love strikes you the first time? The nagging feeling of just wanting to be near whom our heart beats?

But let me move on to the last part of your comment. Meaning the introspection stage where you are justifying the reasons why you should stay in love or move on? When all the confusions and disappointments now erode that love you felt deep down? Now you take all the equations and the reasons why you must keep on loving or simply let the flame die? That is not easy JW but we all do things so stupid enough and at the end of the day we can say: "What the HELL was that about? WHAT WAS I THINKING??"

AHH YOU LET THE MIRROR OF YOUR CONSCIENCE TAKE A BITE OF YOUR GUILT.

But maybe you are right, your very intellect ruined what was a perfect love that sustained your feelings and happiness.

Love...

Ken I love that. The stage of progression best determined throught the passage of time, only to know the more we think we have learned, the more ignorant we have become.

ZEN AND TAOISM at its best Ken.

Z my friend, how was your trip?

Thanks for your visit.

KN, I have to add this. In our Filipino culture, at least true until the last 60 years, we were subject to follow cultural traditions without questions. Women or girls when their are born call for a great celebration. It means, bounty of astronomical proportions. For the parents. Boys, ahh, they are doomed. Step one: Girls are auctioned as early as 13 to 15 years old. All the possible suitors with whom the girl is never allowed to see. Only the parents and the elders of the village will decide whom is the best that she will be married into. Now this money comes into play. The most money, the more land, the more payment to everyone. Step two: After comparisons and scrutiny (accounting is a must), then the competition comes into play. All the aspirant (granting she is beautiful, of good manners and healthy and beautiful) boy the higher the prize at stake.

Step 3: Dowry and betrothal comes. The poor girl had no choice, had no clue as to whom she is marrying into. Blah blah blah. Anyways, my point is that I am lucky, I wasn't born with these practice as was my mother and my grand parents. Thanks to the Americans who came in 1898.

Thanks KN.

Question, are there parts of the world where these practice still prevail?

I don't know..I hope not.

KN my dear friend, I can't emphasize enough the wonders of what a civilized world has achieved over the years. It is most liberating and most emancipating to not be subject to such a culture.

I can add what made me able to rise from rags to riches on my own account with the help of my loving and great parents. And this is where I am a true believer of GOD.

I was born without my saying, right? I didn't have any choices as to where a check list would have been processed for my creation. I didn't say: OKAY, I WILL BE VERY SMART, VERY BEAUTIFUL AND BE OVER DOZED WITH ALL THE POSITIVE EMOTIONS.

In short, I was born as I am.

Well, KN, early on, I was always on top of my schools. Young as \kinder to grade one, I was always ahead and know more than the third grade. So promotions for my class was inevitable. Fast forward 5 years. I graduated with the top honors. I didn't do anything different than focus and drive and commitment tio finish school. My dad saw that brilliance in me. He decided that I can carve my own crown without him having to sell me to the highest bidder. And there were countless of them, KN. As far as other towns came to present their desire to my parents to be their wife.

So I did it on my own. The youngest college professor and privileged to even attend some of my classes from England. Part of my credit for my Master's degree.

And so my life is where I was and where I am at the moment. Full of gratitude and mindful of other's that if it were all my way, I would provide anything I can to help those that are, in all honesty, know what they want and go for it. Without using love as means and ways to achieve what it is they want for the sake of improving one's conditions in life.

Injustice relative to economic and ignorance is a cause I would much like to be involved with KN>

Thanks.

lind
It would be nice if our loved one has all the ticks checked in the boxes...wealth, good looks and a good disposition...to mention a few traits but I don't think our feelings work that way...at least not mine!!...but I am sure there are people who look for financial stability and learn to love that person?...hope you are well and having a good day!!

Yes my dear Lou, what a journey set to perfection if this is the case.

I am fine my dear and thanks..

Dates again on the Vegas is on the 18 and 19 right?

Thanks my dear Lou.

By the way Lou my friend, heading to Florida on the 4th and back on the 6th. My best friend from Geneva, who is responsible in introducing me to this God infested area of our CS is inviting me to join her while catching up her cruise in the Caribbean.

I might not be able to be in Vegas on the 18th or 19th but I will do my best to come and meet with you.

Thanks my friend.

lind
I will be there in Vegas late night in September 18th to the 21st...just a few days but it would be good to meet up if you can...but the trip to Florida sounds lovely!!...have you heard from simmo lately or non?...

My friend, Simmo, yes but Non is in complete absence. Like out to nowhere and am so concerned. Wouldn't just abandon us and I hope he's fine.

Thanks KN, yes if I can I'd love to share our fellow women in the world and be aware of the freedom we do enjoy here in the west.

Thanks again.

Ken I can create a whole blog just to express how grateful we are for the Spanish American war that changed our world


Thanks and sorry for your friend. Did he go and marry another one?

Fun how are you? I remember you went to Asia and have had a relationship with someone, how did it go?

I agree with you and that is the best way to handle it, honesty and being upfront with the motives.

Thanks

Which part of the island is she from Fun? I'm from the north