Immaturity

I posted this write up 2 months ago in our Chapter's wall. Did not include it in the blog for i was not able to find the words that have inspired me to write the article. But this time around the words dance upon my eyes and my emotion calls for it.

Those who have not yet accepted their own imperfection are the first ones to judge and criticize the faults of others.

In this community, perfection is not essential. Fights occur with people whom we love the most. why? because they are the ones that hurts us worst.

But what is the true measure of someone who has grown in this community? is it by the number of households he/she attended? the number of teachings? the number he has invited on clps? 

NO.

The measure is your maturity. a maturity that becomes evident in the way you relate with people and the way you handle yourself with all the shortcomings that you know you have. 

This is a challenge. With all the schedules and meetings we have attended. let me ask, How much have we really grown? Will we be enough as a marketing tool in this coming CLP? Will people just by our example be excited to join this community?

Try to ponder. Because maybe you might have lost the very person God wanted you to evangelize just because of immaturity.

Criminal Minds

Profilers. Murder. Serial Killing. Blood. That is what Criminal Minds is all about. I love watching this movie series not because i take joy in watching morbid bloody films but more the reason that it allows me to know others more. In every episode, the main characters tries their best to get into the minds of the serial killer in the case that they are trying to solve. They gather personal history of the killer, studies the killings done, the killers signature and trophy, and from it analyzes (profile) who the killer could be.

My greatest learning i have had and still having from watching these films is that, my understanding for people have broadened. It allows me to see things beyond what is visible to the eye. Beyond what people are trying to show versus who they truly are and to have a greater understanding of why people do things that are not norms of the society. Another thing that i love the most about these and which i always look forward to in every episode are the quotes that makes you ponder.

So this collection will purely be about the quotes that had been used throughout the series. I will be posting it by batches. I hope by doing so, it would also make you ponder and think deeply about yourself, and especially about other people.

Season 1


"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. 
Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad

"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Try again, fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett


"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
(attributed to) William Shakespeare

"With foxes, we must play the fox."
Thomas Fuller

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else."
Ernest Hemingway

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Carl Jung

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolton

"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?"
Albert Einstein

"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
Sir Peter Ustinov

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
Eugene Ionesco

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table.
W.H. Auden

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"What is food to one is to others bitter poison."
Lucretious

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Confucius

"Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed."
Genesis 9:6

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. 
What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."
Albert Pine

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Norman Maclean

Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?
John Steinbeck

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
Sir Francis Bacon

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, 
so that society must take the place of the victim, and 
on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
W.H. Auden

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
Mahatma Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. 
The evil it does is permanent."
Mahatma Gandhi

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Diane Arbus

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
Anthony Brandt

"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman."
Mexican proverb

"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
Voltaire

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, 
we become disguised to ourselves."
François de la Rochefoucauld

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth 
and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
Albert Einstein

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
Elbert Hubbard


"Try not. Do or do not."
Yoda

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see."
Winston Churchill

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. 
Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein

"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for."
James Reese

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. 
Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
Samuel Johnson


"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role 
is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."
Jacques Rigaut

"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel 
as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"
Rose Kennedy

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripides

"When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness."
Euripides

"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Where are you now?

by: Honor Society



To my favorite teacher, told me never give up
To my fifth grade crush, who I thought I really loved
To the guys I miss, and the girls we kissed
Where are you now?

To my ex-best friends, don't know how we grew apart
To my favorite bands, and sing-alongs in my car
To the face I see in my memories
Where are you now?

Where are you now? 'Cause I'm thinking of you
You showed me how, how to live like I do
If it wasn't for you, I would never be who I am

To my first girlfriend I thought for sure was the one
To my last girlfriend, sorry that I screwed it up
To the ones I loved, but didn't show it enough
Where are you now?

Where are you now? 'Cause I'm thinking of you
You showed me how, how to live like I do
If it wasn't for you, I would never be who I am

I know we'll never see those days again
And things will never be that way again
But that's just how it goes, people change, 
but I know,I won't forget you

To the ones who cared and who were there from the start
To the love that left and took a piece of my heart
To the few who'd swear I'd never go anywhere
Where are you now?

Where are you now? 'Cause I'm thinking of you
You showed me how, how to live like I do
If it wasn't for you, I would never be who I am
If it wasn't for you, I would never be who I am
If it wasn't for you, I'd be nothing
Where are you now?


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One's Greatest Enemy

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

Starting from childhood, it was already ingrained in me to desire success. To excel from the previous accomplishments i have had. I grew up thinking that success and accomplishments are very essential in a person's life.

All the things i have desired for myself i was able to achieve quiet easily. Because of the will power, of becoming better than what i used to be. 26 years of my life, i have done nothing but that. To glide from one success to another. To always desire the best and not settle for mediocrity. Success then, equates my name.

Living with it, also made me demand the best from others. Especially when i know that the person can excel far better than his present accomplishments. To demand order and perfection not only from myself but from those people who surrounds me, whom i love.

Order and Perfection. Words that may be alien to some. To be able to have this, one must be in control. 

For the past 2 years of my life, i have felt losing control of the perfection i have created. I have met with people who would hate you for desiring success for themselves, who would put you down because you desire greatness in every event and situation that you come in contact with, people who silently hates you because of your demands for them, to be successful as well. To be excellent, to be better. Of people putting you in a pedestal of unattainability and forsakes you, judge you, not because you have sinned but because you have succeeded and keep demanding success in yourself and others. I never knew, that success sinful.

These events in my life, ate me up to the point that i stopped aiming for success. Opportunities which we call "breaks" comes into my life and i so willingly choose to let it go. Not because i could not do it but because i don't want to do it. I got tired of the labels that puts my name in a pedestal. So i stopped. I allowed failure to enter into my life. 

And now, i have completely lost the sense of who i am. The achiever. I am now in a point of hating myself for allowing others' opinion to matter in my life. I want to be great. I want to be excellent. I want to be famous. Right now, my greatest enemy is myself, for accepting in my vocabulary the word 'failure'. I am currently in a personal character battle. And in this battle i would try my best to emerge successful. Not only because i want to, but because that is 'WHO I AM'  and what i am destined to be.

"So help me, God."