driven

live life!

"ikaw, anong ginagawa mo sa ibabaw ng bato sa ilalim ng nagliliyab na araw?"

"wala"

"wala ka bang pinagkakaabalahan?"

"meron."

"ano?"

"ito ang pinagkakaabalahan ko. gumagawa ako ng wala."

"wala kang ginagawa?"

"hindi. iba ang walang ginagawa sa gumagawa ng wala."

lalong napakunot ng noo si tong. " anong pinagkaiba noon?"

itinuro ni ulang ang malawak na kapaligiran. " yan ang wala. yan ang ginagawa ko. gumagawa ako ng wala."

"paano yun?" tanong ng nalalabuang talangka. "paano mo malalaman kung tapos mo nang gawin ang wala?"

"kapag gumawa na'ko ng meron."

"pero hindi mo naman nakikita ang ginagawa mo, di ba?"

"dahil nga ang ginagawa ko sa ngayon ay wala. sa katunayan, lahat yang pinagmamasdan mo ngayon ay pinagpaguran ko."

"tinignan ni tong ang kawalan. " andami mo na palang nagawa!"

"totoo 'yan," sagot ng kausap...

...... "mas mabuting mabigo sa paggawa ng isang bagay kesa magtagumpay sa paggawa ng wala" marahang paliwanag ni tong.

"hindi ka ba napapagod gumawa ng meron?"tanong ni ulang.

"hindi ka ba napapagod gumawa ng wala?" tanong ni tong.

"napapagod ...... wala na nga akong pahinga eh!"

"bakit ginagawa mo pa rin?"

"dahil ito ang tungkulin ko dito."

"kanino?"

"ang mga hayop sa gubat...... binabayaran nila ako ng mga pilak para gumawa ng wala. kung gusto mo kahit dalawang pilak lang ang kapalit ay igagawa kita ng sarili mong wala."

-excerpt from the book : Bob Ong's Alamat ng Gubat

i haven't finished the book as of now but i read it during a break from a very stressing school work. haha actually i just sneak up on it for a moment from my cuz's bed then after i have to draft again. it's a funny story (on so far what i had read) but then i just think that's how life really is. i mean like this lines above. just putting them in our world made me think, yeah, there are this type of people who does nothing and still they survive. pity them. they're the trashes in this planet. hah. i don't know how to say it, but learning from this, i feel it's always right to try things out, to work, spend time productively and just be able to share God's blessings to others after a hardwork and after a lesson learned from a trial of things you just didin't succeed, but at least there's an effort.

live with a purpose.

enjoy life!

God made this world so beautiful for us to enjoy it, make life out of it and put in much more sparkle by living His love for ourselves and others.

posted by juliusmarzan @ 2:43 PM 2 comments

new youth

posted by juliusmarzan @ 7:22 AM 0 comments

Coffee and Life

A forwarded message on my email:


A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

Lesson Learned: don't adore for expensive cups rather enjoy the taste of coffee.

posted by juliusmarzan @ 7:12 AM 2 comments