I couldn’t help but think that if being educated means that you know about the general things that they taught you at school then how come I can’t recall most of them?

I realize the reason why everything I was taught in school was barely retained in my mind is because I wasn’t really learning them because I wanted to. I was learning them because I needed to pass the required grade and to move on. There was no true value or appreciation placed in knowing what I was being taught.

Because of this, the things that I’ve  ”learned” because I had to pass were all forgotten. They were only stored temporarily. And now I find that I regret that I have.

The mindset of today’s youth shouldn’t be superimposed with the same notion; that is to learn just to pass. It would bode for a better future if it were otherwise.

There are Dummy books for programming and how to use a software from MS Office to Photoshop to any kind really. Books about business, science, and law. Name it and they might just have it.

The Dummy books are very comprehensive and easy to understand. They’re not your typical school books that talk about technical things and need an actual instructor to guide you through the book. The author of Dummy books are the instructor themselves which makes them great reference for self study.

It’s one of the best things that I like to do in life because reading about things give you an idea of what the world is out there. You get to experience someone else’s world for a moment and you get a glimpse on how they handle life and you get to reflect if what they did was proper or not.

Reading is a great hobby for learning and when you read you do learn something whether you like it or not.

For me it’s waking up early in the morning to go to work. My morning rituals are fairly typical as they involve shower, breakfast, and change. Then after I leave my home, I battle the everyday challenge of commuting. I swear, on most days, the number of people that crowd the public transportations seem to grow in number.

During work, I wait for the lunch hour. After lunch, I wait for the office day to end. Office work is always productive but it’s really just another day of droll work. Going home after and repeating the cycle all over again makes me want to go nuts sometimes.

There’s really no rationality behind fears and often they are caused by something that happened in the past which you cannot get over. For me, it was something I read from an urban ghost story book that has kept me from sleeping in darkness for the last couple of years.

Having this fear is not healthy however and I am slowly starting to overcome it. I’ve decided that I should decrease the amount of light bit by bit until eventually I grow comfortable with total darkness.

One of my most favorite pictures are the ones that were taken candidly. For me, they say more about the subjects in the photos rather than those where they are posed.

Candid shots are genuine and honest. If captured nicely, they show you the essence of the moment and what’s truly going on in the scene.

People tend to be more self conscious when asked to stay still and pose for the camera. They project a facade that they want the world to see. Sometimes it may be the true them, but oftentimes it’s not.

Pictures are worth a thousand words but they’re worth even more when the shot is candid.

Despite majority of the population watching and liking these films,  I personally think watching them is a waste of time. That in itself is a sad fact. I would have gladly join those who love our own but how could I when the one’s responsible for creating the movies don’t even make them worth it.

I hope that one day it would improve.

Growing physically is the only growth we can at the very least control. Of course you can’t control how tall you get but you can control that extra weight that stacks on our bodies as we grow older.

People who don’t gain weight as they grow older are rare because they have that innate gene that keeps their metabolism fast. It is a universal fact however that with age, metabolism also slows down thus causing the unwanted weight gain.

There are ways to curb those of course; thank god for exercise and proper diet.

Wise men often say that we shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover. Yet the minute we something we deem not nice or “evil”, we immediately condemn the person without even seeking reason and truth first.

The truth is you never know. And you’ll never know because every decision is a risk. The proverbial fork in the road will  always lead to some regrets at some point and of course beg to ask the question “what if”. “What if I chose the other road instead…would the outcome be better?”

Whichever toad you choose and whichever decision you make, know that you’re always taking a risk. And that’s good because at the end of the day, if it turns out that you made a mistake then you can learn from it and learn to avoid it next time.