Life Lessons...

Here are a couple of life lessons that you might want to read. I have been feeling down lately for reasons that I don't even know why. It seems that there are some things that I need to do, yet I still can't figure out what these things are. As I was surfing the web, I came across this site. I'm reposting it here just in case it might help anybody to make sense of his/her life.

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.  All you can do is be someone who can be loved.  The rest is up to them.

I've learned that no matter how much I care some people just don't care back.

I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I've learned that it's not what you have in your life, but whom you have in your life that counts.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I've learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I've learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.  Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I've learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.   And, just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I’ve learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt, and you will hurt in the process.

I've learned that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish.  Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.

I've learned that heroes are people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I’ve learned that you can keep going long after you can’t.

source: http://www.westhartfordcounselingcenter.com/lessons.htm

When Nature Strikes!

Life is a precious gift from God that’s why we must make the most of it all the time and live each day as if it were our last. However, natural calamities and other catastrophic events, can easily take away god’s gift of life to mankind. 

Just recently, the rest of the world witnessed a frightening earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9  followed by a deadly 23 foot tsunami hit Tokyo Japan on the 11^th of March. It was a tragic incident which caused many people’s world to come crumbling down and left many dreams shattered, families broken, and taken innocent lives of many.  Video footage showed  giant waves sweeping  away cars, homes, people, and buildings, leaving a path of death and desolation. Sadly, we will never really know what the future holds for all of us and a single life may perish in just a blink of an eye. 

It’s horrible, isn’t it? May we take time to ponder on these things. May we always let the people we care about how much we love them for we may never have the chance or opportunity to tell them anymore. Let’s show them how important they are in our own simple ways. Let us learn to let go of our pride, reconcile with ourselves, and with the people whom we have come in conflict with in the past. Let us keep in mind that life is too short to spend it hating others and making them miserable.

saying I LOVE YOU...

Saying I love you is the best way to express your love to your friends, families, and to your romantic partners. It is amazing how these simple three words could change one's life. So, be careful in using this line to woe somebody. Never ever say it when you don't really mean it.

Here's how to say I Love You in 100 languages:

• English - I love you
• Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
• Albanian - Te dua
• Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
• Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
• Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
• Bambara - M'bi fe
• Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
• Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
• Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
• Bulgarian - Obicham te
• Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
• Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
• Catalan - T'estimo
• Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
• Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
• Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
• Creol - Mi aime jou
• Croatian - Volim te
• Czech - Miluji te
• Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
• Dutch - Ik hou van jou
• Esperanto - Mi amas vin
• Estonian - Ma armastan sind
• Ethiopian - Afgreki'
• Faroese - Eg elski teg
• Farsi - Doset daram
• Filipino - Mahal kita
• Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
• French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
• Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
• Georgian - Mikvarhar
• German - Ich liebe dich
• Greek - S'agapo
• Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
• Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
• Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
• Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
• Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
• Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
• Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
• Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
• Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
• Hungarian - Szeretlek
• Icelandic - Eg elska tig
• Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
• Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
• Inuit - Negligevapse
• Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
• Italian - Ti amo
• Japanese - Aishiteru
• Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
• Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
• Kiswahili - Nakupenda
• Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
• Korean - Sarang Heyo
• Latin - Te amo
• Latvian - Es tevi miilu
• Lebanese - Bahibak
• Lithuanian - Tave myliu
• Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
• Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
• Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
• Marathi - Me tula prem karto
• Mohawk - Kanbhik
• Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
• Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
• Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
• Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
• Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
• Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
• Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
• Persian - Doo-set daaram
• Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
• Polish - Kocham Ciebie
• Portuguese - Eu te amo
• Romanian - Te iubesc
• Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
• Scot Gaelic - Tha gra'dh agam ort
• Serbian - Volim te
• Setswana - Ke a go rata
• Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing'I Love You')
• Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
• Sioux - Techihhila
• Slovak - Lu`bim ta
• Slovenian - Ljubim te
• Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
• Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
• Swedish - Jag alskar dig
• Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
• Tagalog - Mahal kita
• Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
• Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
• Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
• Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
• Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
• Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
• Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
• Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
• Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
• Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
• Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
• Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
• Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
• Yoruba - Mo ni fe 

Sleep Disorders

Sleeping is essential to humanity. Every body needs to have enough sleep to allow our bodies to rejuvenate and regain the energy that we have lost from our day to day activities. It is said that we need to have at least 7-8 hours of sleep a day to achieve the optimum benefits of sleeping as well as for health reasons. However, there are a lot of restricting factors that may hinder this. Stimulants, stressors, sleeping habits, lifestyle, and even our nature of work can disrupt our sleeping patterns thus, causing some people to develop certain sleep disorders. I have listed some of these interesting disorders below:

1. Primary Insomnia – this is a common or familiar disorder. Oftentimes, it is described as the difficulty of initiating or maintaining sleep. People with insomnia usually report difficulty falling asleep for hours and intermittent wakefulness during the night. The longer they lie in bed unable to go to sleep, the more distressed and aroused they become which makes it even more difficult for them to fall asleep. To be diagnosed with primary insomnia, you must have the symptoms for at least one month, and the sleep disturbance should not be related to a mental disorder, medical condition, or to substance use. 
   
   
2. Primary Hypersomnia – this is another disorder which is basically the opposite of insomnia. People with this condition are chronically sleeps and may sleep 12 hours or more at a stretch and still wake up sleepy. They can easily fall asleep wherever they are especially if the environment is not that stimulating.
   
   
3. Narcolepsy – is another interesting disorder that involves irresistible sleep attacks. To be diagnosed with this disturbance, one must experience the sleep attacks for at least 3 months. A person who has this condition may suddenly fall asleep while doing something like eating, walking, driving, or even in the middle of a conversation. These sleep episodes generally lasts 10-20 minutes up to an hour. 
   
   
4. Sleep Apnea – this is another common breathing-related sleep disorder. Those who have sleep apnea typically snores loudly. They would then go silent and do not breathe for several seconds at a time, and then gasps for air. Apnea is generally common to overweight people, middle-aged men, and pre-pubertal children with large tonsils.
   
   
5. Sleep Walking – this is a parasomnia described as the repeated episodes of rising from the bed during sleep and walking about. On awakening, the person has amnesia for the episode and would probably experience a short period of confusion and disorientation.

Note:

Sleep disorders, particularly insomnia can actually be treated with a variety of drugs or through behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral therapies that change sleep related behavior and thinking patterns.