Empty Spaces

The Voice: Look up. What do you see?
You: Whenever I look up at night these days, the stars are really shining brighter than before. Autumn is nice.
The Voice: What else do you see?
You: Oh, the airplanes. Sometimes I think they are UFO's, you know.
The Voice: That's all?
You: Well, there's the moon too, of course. It's always there. Sometimes it's so big you feel like it's moving towards the Earth.
The Voice: Oh, ok.
You: Seems like you're not satisfied with my answer.
The Voice: No, it's ok.
You: So, what do you see up there tonight?

The Voice: Well, there are lots of empty spaces. Shouldn't they be filled with something?

You: Umm...

Crossing Overload

Sometimes, I wonder
Maybe it's better if
We aren't able to read all the signs

If we didn't know the other options
If we can't see ALL the paths

Then we won't bother
Thinking of the path not taken
Nor
Get confused
On which one to take

If there is just
One sign ahead of you
Perhaps it would be so much easier


But where's the fun in that?

Superman

I watched it in an episode once.

"Mom, I can see everything. It hurts to be able to see everything."
"Then son, you should learn to close your eyes."



And what if we close our eyes?
Isn't that selfishness?
Hiding and pretending not to know...

You can see because you have to see.

You may not understand why, at first.
You may not understand it ever.
But it's just like that.

Yes. It can suck.

And sometimes, it really sucks.

So what to do?



I don't know too.



Perhaps, just look.
And see.
And feel bad or worse about it. (It can be good too, you know.)

Then act on something!

You can see because you want to see.

The rest...
Is up to you.

Wax and Wane

How can one ever know...

If it's peaking...
Or fading away?


Unless we see it shining fully
Before our eyes.

'Cause after that, we know
Slowly, it's going to be dark












Pitch dark.
(But don't worry, even if we can't see it, it's just there.)

Which is when
We've got to believe
That it will shine again...


Patience, my dear
Because it will always be
Worth the wait.

Only When I Sleep

Everything floats beneath me

And it is reachable
That, which is
Past the infinity of the sky

But when I get to the end of the tunnel
It all ends

For beyond it
I open my eyes
And see that
The world is of course,
As it is supposed to be.

Wala Lang

Ngayon ko lang nalaman...


Ganito pala karami
ang apatnapung kutsarita.

Why?

One day, The Heart wondered...

The Heart: Why am I alone? Everybody has a partner. You have a pair of eyes. Pair of ears. Pair of nostrils. Pair of lungs. Pair of kidneys. Even a pair of brain hemispheres! Why do I stay here on the left of your chest and there's a void at the right? Should you not have another heart?
You: It's true. Why?

The Voice: It's to remind you... that you alone are complete, for you can function well. But you need another to be whole. When you are with another, you fulfill your completeness.
The Heart: I can't understand.

The Voice: Take for example the hands. A single hand is complete on its own. It can function on its own. It can do things alone as well.
But with the other hand, every task becomes easier. You maintain balance. And you can even do more than what you could with just one hand. You can multitask. You can be... more you.
The Heart: Oh, so that's it.
You: But I also just have one mouth. One tongue.

The Voice: That's for you to tell just ONE... the one for you... to share this void beside each other's heart, and fill it with another's.

Imagine you are a cup. Alone, you can be full. But when another one comes, you can fill the other too... with the liquid you contain... and you will have new 'space' to fill, while together with the other cup, while apart.

But together, you can be filled with the same liquid coming from one pitcher. Isn't it cool?

I dedicate this to those who feel that the need to care for another is not a good thing and to those who keep on hiding and running away. Seize the moment... or it will pass you by. ;) I also dedicate this to those who already found their 'other'. Continue filling each other's cups. Hahaha!

We are all connected to the same source. How come, sometimes, it's difficult to reach another? =P

D#

Every note is important.

When one is missing, the melody does not make any sense.

There's no harmony.

But a single key is not enough as well.
You need the rest to make music.

The Mountain

It's a leap of faith

To believe that you can reach

The Highest

...
For how will you know
It's THE Highest
When it never touches
Heaven?
...

But you still went on
Tried and tried so hard
To conquer this feat before you
Because you still believed

It's not really reaching the top
It's not just what's up there

...

It's

mostly

the course

of getting there

that matters.


(And you can look down your path for a while when you reach the top.)
(How peaceful.)

...

For there will always be
another mountain
higher
waiting to be conquered.

Of Heights and the Sun

In Between

Black and White

Is a Palette of Colors

Reflected to our Eyes

From Way Up High

Farewell Dear Flowers

The nectar is sweet
When it seems like it's my last
I may not be able
To wait
Until they all come back

My flowers

-The Bee


Fall is NOW.
Leaves start to change their greenish color to red or orange or brown.
Later on, they will fall.

HERE, you find more reason for Carpe Diem.

You see it everyday.

Splash!

As a first post to my first PhotoBlog, I chose this Splash Sequence taken during our Yokohama trip this Summer 2008. I couldn't ride roller coasters for fear of "heart failure" and the likes. However, I realized recently how much of LIFE I have been losing for not even trying to be on these exciting rides. I can compare it, probably, with watching horror films. It's not just for the sake of fun... for me, it's also for the sake of just being there. Of allowing yourself to jump into something out-of-the-norm---into that uncomfortable zone, which you have prevented yourself from getting near to because of circumstances you're not even sure would happen ('cause you never tried).

It's my way of letting go... and of jumping in. I remember that very famous Philo quote "lundagin mo, beybe!"

Yeah! Hello to everything new. Hello to taking risks and chances. Hello to the real world.


Welcome to the world as I see it through lenses. ^_^ Enjoy your stay.