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.
I am most grateful on this link Luke and we should all read it and come back with all the rationale as to why we do what we do based on an organized society that dictates and control all that we believe in. Perhaps when we do lose our strength and find the anti dote to these manipulative groups. A most scary pit we allow ourselves into.
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>
Wow Luke, what a dissertation. What a body of knowledge you have uncovered here. It will take me a long time to even grasp the substance of what was presented here and perhaps by the time I am done with all the facts and well conceived presentation, I will be just as confused and as twisted as the post itself.
The MANIPULATION OF MY OWN HEAD, and in the end never known what the hell it was all about.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And yes, my direction right now is plain and d simple, fishing on a fishless lake, enjoying more my muscle building casting than catching while listening to Led Zeppelin and Lynayrd Skinnyrd
Mind boggling Luke. Limitless and endless possibilities. My mind is way too weak to navigate it's complex maneuvering, I settle with the use of just blogging and writing. It serves me well and I won't even want to go any deeper about all the power it can do.
KN my beautiful friend, thanks for your advice, a most reaffirming and needed guidance. Sometimes hazy decisions are born out of frustrations are not very good and can in fact compound the situation instead of lightening it.
I just might really take time and be in the wait and see mode.
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