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Hi Readers!
Sorry for the long hiatus!
I hope you guys missed me as much as I missed writing for you!
I hope 2011 is treating you well!
More posts coming SOON!

End of the Road...

I read this quote and it made my day

So I am going to make your day readers by sharing!

"Tough times NEVER last, but tough people do." ~ Robert H. Schuller

This is my little moral boost to you guys all the way from FL :)

♥ Gigi

Will Power

They say some things in life are impossible to acheive.

I say "If there is a will, there's a way"

I have lived by this motto for the past four years,

And truth be told, it is true!

So readers, my food for thought for today is

If you want something, you will find a way to get it.

Find the determination to acheive that something,

And find the best way to make it happen!

 

So Go for it.

With no fear.

With all your will.

JUST GO FOR IT.

Stay determined,

Gigi

True Beauty

The other day, I was walking around the mall and

I noticed that our society is very superficial.

When you walk into a store, they have a definite picture 

Of what they want us to believe is beauty.

And that annoyed me.

I am sorry but who are they to define beauty?

When did it become obligatory for us to look all the same to be beautiful?

Who gave them the right to set guidelines on what is beautiful?

Since when being skinny was the IT of being beautiful?

Or better yet,

Since when having a certain nose classified a person as beautiful? 

Or my least favorite, 

Since when did the color of your skin become a criteria of beauty?

It has gotten to the point where 

We start to judge people based on these given criteria.

I will be honest and say that I did it the other day

And classified a random person based on mere appearances.

Quite frankly, I was ashamed.

I should know better. 

We should know better to judge people based on appearances.

What makes a person beautiful is more then their physical.

True beauty comes from within.

And throughout the years I have learned that

The only person that isn't beautiful, 

Cannot see the beauty within others.

Better yet, the person who isn't beautiful 

Cannot see the beauty within themselves.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross once said:

"People are like stained-glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 

But when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed 

Only if there is a light from within"

So readers, learn how to define YOUR beauty.

And make sure your beauty is not just superficial

Make sure your beauty comes from WITHIN

♥ Gigi

Overrated Uniqueness

So as I was walking around campus today 

I realized that many of the girls and guys 

With supposedly edgy "hairstyles" and outfits

Looked pretty much the SAME.

Everybody wants to be artistic,

Everybody wants to be DIFFERENTLY cool.

Everybody wants to go natural.

(Disclaimer: I am not against natural hair, 
I am just tired of women doing it because everybody else is doing it)

So this got me thinking

Since everyone is trying so hard lately to be unique

Eventually, everybody will look the same, act the same.

It will be like watching living photocopies...

So next time, you are trying so hard to be unique

To make others realize that you are "important"

Let's face it, you were important from the get go

No need to try so hard.

Besides, a philosopher once said:

“Of course you’re unique, just like everyone else".

Stay True to Yourselves Readers,
♥ Gigi

Expectations.

 A long time ago

I've learned that even the best intentions

Can lead to disasters.

I've learned you can never expect anything from anyone.

No matter who it is. 

The second you expect something from someone, 

You're setting yourself up for heartbreak.

So I am sorry if it is hard for me to see the best in everything or everyone.

But it's I know that its better, NOT to expect anything

Unfulfilled expectations lead to pain and disappointment.

While when you didn't expect anything

And something good happens, it give you pleasure.

So I am going to keep on expecting nothing from nobody but ME

This way, I'll know what to expect at ALL times.

Stay true to yourself readers.

Gigi

Wish Upon a Star

We live and learn.

Well, so far I've lived and learned that

Sometimes in life,  we get caught up wishing
For something that will never happen

BUT

Sometimes, if we reach for the stars and 

Never, ever ever give up.

Never tell ourselves no.

We can achieve anything.

It may take days, months, years and even decades

But once you catch that star

The reward is breathtaking.

So that's what I am doing

I am wishing upon two stars

And when I get them,

It will be worth it.

♥ Gigi

Someone.

Often we sit around, mopping because we dont know what we want.

Well as I am sitting in my bedroom

I figured ONE of the things that everybody wants.

It hit me:

"At the end of the day, we dont want to be everything to everyone.

No. That would be ridiculous.

We just want to be something to SOMEONE"

Just that simple.
'Gigi

Wrong Labels

It's amazing how we think we know people

Or believe that we know exactly what they're about.

And most of the times, we are wrong.

Most of the times, we misjudge others

We put labels on people, and place them in little boxes 

That we think they belong in.

We do to others what we dont want to be done to us.

We automatically assume that they are what we want them to be.

Funny thing is people are not little stick figures.

Putting a label on a person 

Doesn't necessarily mean that the given label is correct.

A labeled sweetheart might be a backstabbing person on the down low.

While a labeled sarcastic person might just be a sweetheart.

So we need to be careful.
Often we judge others, we don't define them.
We define ourselves
So we need to be careful

Besides Mother Theresa said it best:

If you judge people, you have no time to love them

:) Gigi

Dare to Live

Sometimes we do things for others
And we fail. Miserably.
And the day we realize that it's better to live for ourselves
Than others, we start succeeding.
Because for once, it's not about pleasing others
It's about doing what we want for us.
Its about taking chances and living life to the fullest.
And lately, that's what I have been experiencing.
I've realized that it's better to live your life
So at least when you fail,
The only person you have to answer to is yourself.
But most importantly, when you try your best at what you want to do
There is no such thing as a failure.
Instead there's just a first trial followed by an inevitable success.
So readers, if you are out there
Trying to please everyone and forgetting about the most important person
YOU
You need to sit down and restart.
Life is about living fully.
So stop walking on eggshells and get to steppin!
You can't live your life for other people.
You've got to do what right for you.
Even if it hurts some people you love.



Remember
You cannot live for someone else
If you don't live first for yourself.
If you are nothing, the one you love will not love you.
To be what your love loves, you must be yourself first ♥