Journey 234: Journeys of the Heart

One of the painful journeys couple has to make is to be separated by the wide open spaces in between to be where our separate journeys bring us though faithfully a couple in all ways. Those and many other decisions we keep in our lifetime is one that we can always come back wherever we are and may be in the future and the good memories we share will be one that defines us and the kind of relationship we keep even with the miles and miles apart from each other.

The space may be wide but the love we both shared is wider. It may be somewhat inconsiderate of us to go but as we both shared, someone has to make the first step towards a more fruitful future. Someone has to sacrifice and we both does, we felt it, pained, sorely missing each other’s company, laughter, cries, hugs and kisses but what remains is what we feel deep inside. We have had what others have not and we are in that others are not. They will never understand it but we do. They may never see it, but we do. They may even question it, but we believe so. The journey of our hearts is one that distinctly gives us the chance to search for the future together but the paths may be parallel however far.

The journeys of the heart are not only one that we both agreed to take albeit together still but we faithfully keep. We have faith, trust, commitment, fealty and candidness and that should be how our relationship is anchored. While we are oceans apart, we trust, we built faith and continually dreams together. We dream, we build. We hope, we believe. We trust, we gain.

Though the journeys are longer and wider but with which we built it, one must also be faithful. With which we hope, one must remain a dreamer. With which we trust, one must also be a believer. With which we sail, one must be the compass reader. With which we see, one must look beyond what the eyes can even see. With which we dare, one must always be optimistic. With which we love, one must always be affectionate and though painfully, worry-free.

Journey 224: My Simple and Humble Wish

Today, as I celebrated my 35th Birthday, I am overwhelmed by the enormous show of love, faith, friendship, loyalty, genuine happiness from friends I have from since I was a child, to where I am now, including the blogging community. I am touched by your show of greatness today and I felt your sincerity. I, for one felt your messages are not hallow but filled with purity of intentions, greatness of heart and the warmth of friendship.

Certainly, I have also had strangers whom I met but parted as friends and I had been counting on them for my lifetime of experiences. I am grateful for them and their expression of care, love, concern, peace and good wishes for great health and the happiness we sought each day.

But my simple wish is not for me but for you out there, all of you. I wish you will have the peace you so desire, the contentment you so search and the love you so longed. I wish you the life that is peaceful and carefree. I wish you the wisdom to discern which way to a fulfilled heart and the way of which one redeems not only his life but that of others. I wish you happiness that is full of laughter, even at the smallest gesture. I wish you an untiring foot for a travel you all deserve. I wish you the unremitting passion for writing that your ink will be one that inspires others. I wish you the light of the world that you may be the beckon of hope for the hopeless and be the inspiration for those around you. I wish you happiness in the life you choose and the love you live each day. I wish you all the best there is for you to cherish in a lifetime you can share to those whom you love so affectionately and approvingly.

I will wish less for myself because I have you all with me. It is you that defined me as to who I am and what I will become in the future. I am grateful for the great company we all keep and the laughter we shared, the moments I listen to you outpour your heartaches, your cries, your hopelessness. I am grateful for the constancy of your friendship and the abiding spirit of your faith and loyalty.

In my journey today, you had been there and will always be there. I know you are. Sometimes, distance and the berth might be too constraining but it will reward us with such great opportunities to share, in the past, now and in the future to come.

The simplicity of my life as it is what I lived today is one that reassures me peace and stability because you are there for me and my life. My journey will forever be meaningful because you are there to standby me, to pamper me and to cuddle me when I needed it. Just like a reliable friend, you are such an assurance of greatness that not even gold can ever replace. I truly believed that you shine far brighter and your luminous influence is far reaching than diamonds.

Thank you very much for your kindness, love, peace, generosity and understanding. Indeed, if I’ll write a note to God, it will not be for me but for you!

Journey 204: Just as when honesty and trust is built

There are moments in our lives, whether in relationships, marriage, work and career that the tests for trust and sacrifices surfaces to test the strength of the ones involved. It can either make them stronger or break them to asunder. There are finer details that are best understood than hidden. The most utmost respect one can give to anyone is to be utterly open and honest, no matter what. Lies and half-truths does not justify anything but heightens the doubts that clouds everyday of your moments together. When you start hiding something, it therefore generates mistrust and foster inequitable, lopsided rendering of respect and much more, fosters false truth. Just as when honesty and trust is built on the solid mould of relationships, unions and agreements, one must, at all cost, strive to fight temptations, here and there. There are temptations of self-aggrandizement, of self-promotion, of self-selling and of self-centered ill-motives that drives the other party off to oblivion.

When you have entered into such a union, whether for good and for life or for momentary blissfulness, one must assure the other of their unquestionable trust and honesty. When one attempts to be unreasonable because of tell-tale signs, one cannot even complain because there are reasons for it. When hiding things, events and stuffs starts, lies and lying is never too far away. It follows that when you start to hide things and events in any union or relationships you are into, then it only shows that you are weak in both trust and understanding, insincere and incapable of telling and living with the truth. When you are into such a situation that you foster love and understanding, build it on trust and truth. Never allow that the TRUST you shared so much to each other will be replaced by RUST because you also omitted the “T” in it which is based on TRUTH.

Just as we grow together in our unions, marriages, relationships and loves, let us be reminded that ours is something God-sent. One can never tell why it has to happen but rather, one must only understand why it does happened. There are reasons and purposes for such and those to happen. Perhaps, it’s a reminder that the moment we are into such blessed unions, we are there bound to love and never hurt. When you started to lie and put-off at it because you wanted your lies to be the truth, it never justifies any love at all. In fact, it destroys love at the very core and at the onset. One must all-together work how to sustain a relationship, union or marriage based on honesty and truth, trust and faithfulness.

Honesty and truth is like standing on a cliff with so much tranquility and grace but lies is similar to those nasty and rowdy waves hitting the stones off the cliff. One can never too near the bluff, it kills.