DON'T GROW OLD

Got this as an email a really long time ago and just thought to share with all who might be interested! I think it’s kinda deep…………………

Many people are afraid of growing old.
I'm afraid of growing old and boring.
Many people are afraid of growing old, alone.
I'm afraid of growing old, insane.
Many people are afraid of losing their looks.
I'm afraid of losing my dreams.
Many people are afraid of losing their youth.
I'm afraid of losing my soul.
When you're 15, 35 seems ancient.
When you're 35, 15 seems juvenile.
A turnaround in a split second - two decades zoom past and
before you know it, it's only a mile to the next millennium.
Don't fear age,
it's a right of person-hood.
Don't fear death- it's God's greatest jest.
Don't grow old - you don't have to.
Don't date because you're desperate.
Don't marry because you're miserable.
Don't have kids because you think your genes are superior.
Don't separate because you think it's fashionable.
Don't drink because you have troubles.
Don't gamble because you think winning is inevitable.
Don't philander because you think you're irresistible.
Most likely, you're not.
Don't associate with people you can't trust.
Don't cheat.
Don't lie.
Don't pretend.
Don't try to buy your way into the kingdom of God.
Don't dictate because you're smarter.
Don't demand because you're stronger.
Don't sleep around because you think you're old enough and know better.
Don't hurt your kids because loving them is harder.
Don't sell yourself, your family or your ideals.
Don't stagnate.
Don't regress.
Learn a new skill.
Find a new friend.
Start a new career.
Don't live in the past.
Time can't bring anything or anyone back.
Don't put your life on hold for possibly Mr. Right.
Don't throw you life away on absolutely Mr. Wrong because your
biological clock is ticking and you can't afford to have your
eggs harvested before the new millennium.
There's always a mad rush to something, somewhere - but victory
does not always belong to those who finish first.
Sometimes, there is no race to be won, only a price to be paid
for some of life's more hasty decisions.
You can't always go with the throng who could be wrong.
Sometimes, you have to be alone to be enlightened.
To terminate your loneliness, reach out to the homeless.
To feed your nurturing instincts, care for the needy.
To fulfill your parenting fantasies, get a puppy.
Don't bring another life into this world for all the wrong
reasons.
To keep yourself warm, buy a jacket.
In the long run, it will be less complicated and less costly.
To make yourself happy, pursue your passions and be the best of
what you can be.
Simplify your life.
Take away the clutter.
Get rid of destructive elements - abusive friends, nasty habits
and dangerous liaisons.
Don't abandon your responsibilities, but don't overdose on duty.
Don't live life recklessly without thought and feeling for your
family.
Be true to yourself. Don't commit when you're not ready.
Don't keep others waiting needlessly.
Fall in love - it's the greatest thing on earth.
But take care and remember, after the fall must come the rise.
Go on that trip. Don't postpone it.
Say those words. Don't let the moment pass.
Do what you must even at society's scorn.
Write poetry. Love deeply. Walk barefoot. Hold hands.
Dance with wild abandon. Cry at the movies.
Take care of yourself.
Don't wait for someone to take care of you.
You light up your life.
You drive yourself to your destination.
No one completes you - except you.
It is true that life doesn't get easier with age.
It only gets more challenging.
Don't be afraid.
Don't lose your capacity to love.
Pursue your passions.
Live your dreams.
Don't lose faith in God.
Don't grow old.
Just grow up.

Urban Legends and Hoax e-mails

Ever get all those really sad e-mails where some little girl is dying of cancer and you can save her life if you only forwarded it to all your friends, or how Yahoo is about to yank people off their mail service and you need to forward the message to all the people on your address book so management knows you are still an active yahoo user, or how Microsoft is giving away thousands of dollars and you really need to send the message fast so you can get some, or even how some lady had maggots growing in her breast and how everyone really needs to be careful and the list is endless really.

I really used to believe all them e-mails and forward them to everyone on my mailing list until a friend made me promise never to send any such emails till i was very sure of the source. So i started checking them out, everytime i got them.

It was pretty easy though, all i had to do was google a significant item in the story and the results 99% of the time came back as links to and urban legend with the origin and all that stuff. And from that day on, i got liberated from feeling guilty after not forwarding an e-mail that could probably save someones life! Hoax! Hoax! Hoax! That’s what they all are.

So people, you might want to google all such stories when you get them and you will find they are untrue. Lastly,
• You will not have 10 years of bad luck if you do not forward an email
• You will not find your true love just because you sent an e-mail
• Your wish would not come true just because you forwarded an e-mail
• You are not heartless just because you refused to forward an email
• Yahoo is not cramped for space and therefore needs to yank some people off
• Isn’t it weird that the same little girl has had cancer and will die in 6 months for almost 5 years now

See Dubai and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever heard that? Well been there, seen it, and lived!
Seriously! its a wonder! you have to see it yourself to get the gist. Most people just know about Dubai as a tax free zone and only think about shopping and all. Its much more than shopping and business.

I boarded my Qatar Airways flight enroute to Dubai via Doha. I didnt get to see much of Qatar though as i was just changing planes there. My first impression of Dubai was at the passport control. I saw people in their numbers and then i knew there must really be something about Dubai.

The down side for a Naija girl like me was the heat, it was sooo hot and it felt like the sun was shining and it was like 10pm! So you can imagine, i was going from heat to heat! (Naija peeps in d house) I started the next morning on a shopping trip to the Diera City Center. Yeah Yeah i'm a girl.... i like shopping!...... naturally i would wanna check out the shops. Its not one of Dubai's biggest but it is quite big and standard. Shops ranging from H & M (My fav casual clothing shop) to Calvin Klien.

Ok Ok now to the sight seeing and sturvz. I took a bus tour of Dubai and saw all the really nice buildings and all, the tallest building in the world (still under construction though, but its already the tallest and still going!), the Bruj Al Arab (Now thats a sight to behold), the palace of the Ruler of Dubai, the Dubai Museum, the man made sea, the Diera palm, the diera creek, the spice souk and Gold souk too! i have never seen soo many Gold shops in one place. Pity i am not a gold freak so i didn't get any gold atall :-)

The high point of my visit though was the Desert Safari! Oh! My God!!!!! The experience is second to none. It gets your adrenalin way up! My excitment started with my really really fine safari driver "Ali" mnnn mnnn! he was soooo fine! He was probably wondering why this naija girl kept staring at him, whatever! i stared and stared until i had a mental image of him imprinted in my head hehehehehehehe.

We went over dunes and dunes of desert sand at high speed, it was crazy! it felt like going on a roller coaster ride in the sand! there were times i thought the car was gonna go over and roll down, but fine Ali knew his stuff. Then i had a buffet in the desert, and went to see belly dancing! and also had Henna done on my hand!

The Mall of the Emirates is another really nice mall to visit. It's way bigger than the Diera City Center and has all the major shops and more. The most interesting thing for me at the Mall of the Emirates though was the Ski Pavillion. All artificial snow and the temp in there was -3 deg i think! so for all you ski enthusiasts!

And the food! how could i forget the food! i had all sorts!  for all the malls i went to, i always went to the maps and traced the food courts! i had Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, and Thai!

Anyways i should stop gushing about Dubai. For those of you who hope to visit, what am i saying, y'all should visit. Make sure you visit the Wild Wadi, the malls, go on the Dhow Cruise, Desert Safari, the city tour and visit the local markets too

More Than Words

More Than Words

Saying i love you
is not the words i want to hear from you
it's not that i don't want you
not to say but if you only knew
how, easy
it would be to show me how you feel

more than words
is you have to do
to make it real
then you wouldn't have to say
tha you love me
cuz i'd already know

Chorus
what would you do
if my heart was turning to
more than words
to show you feel
that your love for me is real
What would you say
if i took those words away
then you couldn't make things new
just by saying, i love you

Now that i've tried to
talk to you and make you understand
all you have to do
is close your eyes and just reach out your hands
and touch me
hold me close don't ever let me go

More than words
is all i ever needed you to show
then you wouldn't have to say,
that you love me
cuz id already know

Chorus again

its more than words , its more than
what you say
its the things you do

Really love this song! this is like my best song of all times. The words make perfect meaning to me. Its not all about the words, cuz anyone can say anything they think or they feel at anypoint, but do they really mean it?
i don't think love is what you say. Me thinks its what you do, and how you do it, and most importantly when you do it. It's really no use doing something when its too late and all.
Well its christmas again and the true meaning of christmas for me is LOVE. The love of a father for his children, the birth of the essense of love.

You know it gets crazy when you hear things like "love is patient" "love is kind", "Love is long suffering". How many of us are really patient with those we claim to love, or even kind to them or even willing to work things out or take things one step at a time.
I'm guilty of not being some of thise things and the truth is i find it easy to blame it on "thats the kind of person i am" 'You know i'm the kind of person that" and all. I hope this excuse sounds familiar to some peeps.

It then takes me down to the issue of forgiveness. I really always wonder what it entails. its crazy when you decide to forgive a person and somehow, you are always reminded of what they did to you, especially if they keep doing the same thing over and over again. How do you get past it really? i struggle with things like that sometimes.
Most times i basically go like well fine i'm done being mad at this person and all, but i tend to avoid them in the best way i can. i get that they have the tendency to do certain stuff and i just never give them the opportunity to anymore.

now one still wonders, is that good or bad. Cuz its almost like writing a person off in certain aspects and whatever happened to change. I mean people do change and all right?

Hey

Its been a really long while since i actually wrote anything here, and i really wonder why. Well i guess its because i have been going through what i would call "the process" . I'm not done with it though, but i guess i have time to put something down. Funny thing really is, i don't know what i'm about to blab on and on about.

Hmnn! Maybe talking about my process would be a good idea then. Ever feel like the walls are closing in on you? Or maybe when you think "whats the worst that could happen" something happens and you just don't get it. Crazy huh? Well thats life!

"First cut is the deepest" playing on my system. Don't ask why i said that.................................. :-)

Anyway back to what i was talking about. It's a crazy world we are living in, and sometimes in our journey through life, we get to the true reality of life and just how unfair it can be. We often find ourselves stuck in the rut and down to the barest minimum.
I read somewhere that "When you are down to nothing, then for the first time you realize that God is all you need" I agree! But there is always a process he takes you through. Its never the same for everyone and i guess its never the same time frame aswell. So this is where it gets confusing, some peeps get through stuff faster and are onto other things, while some peeps are there for a while.

I guess it can also be refered to as alone time, because you feel alone and deserted aswell. But you also know what they say "At the time when you feel most alone, God is right there with you" i agree! but how do you know, Honestly you don't have a blue print that gives you all the info you need, but you have to believe that he will see you through.

Guess its like the analogy of refining Gold, we all know how in its raw form , it has potential, but not until it goes through the fire (process) and comes out do you see its full potentials begin to show. Or just like a diamond, where you have to be patient while cutting, to get the most value out of it.

The process is never an easy stage to be in, because you sometimes want to give up and just walk away, you wonder if there would ever be an end, you wonder if someday, somehow, sometime would ever make sense to you.

Well i'm still in my process, but i do know that no matter how long it takes, its definately worth it. It might not be what you have worked out in your mind but its always the best for you and when you finally get it, you will know it too.

Plus you will be glad when it happens! Hang in there, There is a God and he will see you through!


PS: Saw "Casino royale" the other day and it wasn't half as bad, going to see "Holiday" on friday and will see "Eragon" when it starts showing! Love Jeremy Irons by the way. Havent gotten over him from 'Kingdom of Heaven" AND I STILL LOVE "ORLANDO BLOOM" :-) :-) not getting that twisted :-)


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Heart broken?

Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armour, for years, so no one can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love

-Neil Gaiman


Had never heard this quote until recently. Truth is it felt sooooo true, and yes i think it is, but i also think its situation dependent. Not sure what to make of it really and thats just because it will eventually become false. It kinda plays between true and false
?

The true meaning of christmas

Halo Halo!!!!!! Ho Ho Ho

it's almost christmas you know. Dunno about the pace of this year but "me thinks" it went really fast, cuz when i think about all the stuff that happened in this one year, its been quite a whole lot.

Anyway, thats that. Wonder what christmas means to us all. For some, i guess its all about being on holidays, others gving and getting gifts, yet for some ,time to see family they haven't seen through the year. But for a fraction, it's a time to remember the unconditional love of God through his son Jesus, born to us on Christmas day. A promise that there is forgiveness of sin, A hope for salvation, A show of true love, A destiny to save our lives, A name we would learn to call upon when sick, in distress, sad, lonley, in trouble, for help, for love, for comfort, in times of trouble. A story that would touch so many and make them find their way back to God. A story of how a father sent his own son to redeem his childrem which he loves so much, so many of them yet unborn hence" before you were formed i knew you"

Anyway before i start repeating myself, all i am trying to say is we really should all take out time to find the true meaning of christmas this christmas and we just mite have a life changing experience!

For me christmas teaches me love, True, unconditional, pure love! We can only have and give that kind of love, if we get and have experienced it direct from source God! If you do not know God , you cannot know Love for God is love.

When you realise that God loves you dearly and he does! and you in turn love God, you want to be close to him and you want to walk with him and be in his presence all the time. When ye have experienced love with God, you can love others freely and purely.

Merry Christmas. And this is dedicated to you all who have found the true meaning of christmas and to you who would find it this christmas and many more christmases to come!

My friend has got a blog dedicated to one's walk with God or should i say his experiences, you mite want to check it out. Click here

Sometimes!

Been a really long while since i put anything on this page. Hmnn! wrote this and thot id put it on! hope its something someone can relate with.

Sometimes i dream
Sometimes its real
Sometimes i wish

I wish it's true
I wish i dream not
I wish i could change

The tears i've cried
The pain i've known
The days gone by

Sometimes i dream
Sometimes its real
Sometimes i wish

For joy
For comfort
For love!

Dylan Hartung's Web Page

Hey,
was reading from the MSN Celeb's gossip page, yeah yeah i read gossip once a while, and i came across a story on Nicole Kidman visiting a young Austrailian boy. His name is Dylan Hartung, he's suffering from Neuroblastoma. Dylan is a 6 year old Australian boy who was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma on 26th July 2004 when he was 5 years old.Dylan has received 11 rounds of intense Chemotherapy, but the Neuroblastoma cells still remain in his bones. This brave young boy is fighting a good fight for his life and God helping him, he's doing a very good job of it. His greatest desire is to meet Angelina Jolie, because he thinks she's an ultimade chic. If you want to read more on Dylan or support him in anyway you can click HERE. Reading about him and visiting the site really inspired me. We can overcome anything, if only we believe in God and ourselves................................

This thing called love!

How many people fully understand what love is all about. Isn't it sometimes funny how people you love do not love you back and those you don't love are crazy about you, or how you know some guy or girl isn't good enough for you but you just cannot get over your feelings, and you just want to be with them (and you do and sometimes get hurt or not). Or how you know your relationship is immeniently coming to an end but you still hang on because you cannot imagine life without them. Or you cannot imagine being with someone else because you have been with your partner for a couple of years. Or the thought that you would die if they left you. Or that you would never get over an ex. Or how come your ex moved on faster than you and you are still so lonley and without anyone! Or why a happy relationship just crumbles. Why you argue all the time. Why you are not such a happy couple anymore. Why your spouse suddenly asks for a divorce. Or why your spouse or partner cheats on you. Why all you want is to be happy and settled in a relationship and you just havent gotten it. Why everyone around you seems to be in happy and loving relationships and you are not. Why you have had a string of bad relationships. Why that really cute guy / girl woludn't just notice you even though you dream about him / her all the time. Why you feel the pain LITERARILY when you get heart broken.
Well i am as clueless as everyone else. We all just pray we find people who are made for us, People who will reciprocate our love and who wouldn't hurt us intentionally. Relationships and indeed life is a risk! All i can say is always give love purely and freely, you may not get it back from the one you gave it to, but you will surely get love back in return!