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The Starfish

Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean. As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?" The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean."   "I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" "The sun is up, and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die." "But, young man, don't you realize that there are mi

Happiness Tip: YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE YOURSELF

Who you are is already amazing, wonderful and brilliant. You just may not realise it yet. But you are already here. Your efforts to 'improve' yourself are unnecessary; like polishing a raindrop, or spraying perfume on a rose. You are already here.  Your idea of the world is just an idea. Your idea of yourself is just an idea. Your ideas of what should be changed about yourself are just ideas. Unhappiness is the result of ideas about ideas. But you are not these ideas. When you recognize this, you can stop identifying with the ideas, and relax. Who you really are has been waiting to emerge. It may be helpful to change some of what you do (E.g. what you focus on, what you say to yourself etc) but you don't need to change yourself. ____________________ FORWARDED by Jamie

Are you a Facebook addict?

MANILA - Facebook users beware. Psychologists are now probing a new kind of addiction called Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage "overtakes" daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the telephone, or checking e-mail. "The amazing thing is that, like cellphones, nobody seems to notice the vast amount of time and energy - at work, at home, and now while on the move - people are devoting to Facebook. It has become a given," Fenichel writes in an online post titled "Facebook Addiction Disorder- A New Challenge?" FAD could be classified under the more broad "internet addiction disorder" or internet overuse. Academic papers have already posed theories on internet addiction and social networking addiction, and even less, cellphone addiction. "Like most activities, moderation and integrat

TO ALL PINOY KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's

First, some of us survived being born to mothers who did not have an OB-Gyne , smoked and/or drank San Miguel Beer or Syoktong , while they carried us. The manghihilot was the cheapest way to deliver babies. Dinala ka ba ng nanay mo sa pediatrician for DPT ?  While pregnant, they took cold or cough medicine, cortal or medicol, ate isaw, and didn't worry about diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after all that trauma, our baby cribs were made of hard wood covered with lead-based paints, pati na yung walker (andador) natin, matigas na kahoy or rattan at wala pang gulong. We had no soft cushy cribs that play music, no disposable diapers ( lampin lang), (noon cloth or rattan duyan lang tied to the posts or ceiling, babies fell asleep sa sobrang hilo ) and when we rode our bikes , we had no helmets, no kneepads , sometimes wala pang preno yung bisikleta . Take-out food was limited to Ongpin's pansit or Aling Toyang's pre-cooked ulam in kalderos. No pizza shops,