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        <title>DAMN Part II</title>
    
    
    
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Why do I keep thinking of you when I know it’s never gonna be us?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt"><strong>Why do I keep thinking of being with you when that is just so can never be?</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">Why can’t I keep my heart from breaking because of you…?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">I thought I was already through torturing myself with thoughts of you.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">But I just can’t deny that I’m terribly missing you.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">What was that that we had shared?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">But… did we really even share anything at all?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">I can’t help but wonder if somehow I happen to cross your mind, too…</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">But who am I to be missed by you…?!</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">It’s hard to hope that you think of me in ways I think about you.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Juice ITC&#39;; LETTER-SPACING: 0.5pt">And even though I know that that’s possible, I cannot ignore, too, the truth that you’re more apt to forget me than to remember me at all.</span></strong></p>
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        <title>Hard To Be Back</title>
    
    
    
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">I told
myself that I am awake. I am, really. But it’s hard to stay awake when those
dreams are just passing you by in the corridor.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">Only
me knows of this struggle that I have.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">Maybe
some friends who are good in putting puzzles together has some clues on what’s
going on with me.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">But it
is only me who knows how heavy whatever it is I am carrying right now.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">And with
that, the fact that only me therefore can do something about it.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">To let
it go. Or to let it grip me forever.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">But still,
reality bites.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">That it’s
hard to greet him after what you think happened.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">It’s
hard to act as if there’s nothing.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">Haaay…</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">But for
all it’s worth. I want to get over it. And ironically. Act as if nothing
happened.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">Even if
it seems too far away and impossible. I want to do it.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">I owe
it to myself.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">To be
whole and be healed. And be the best me that I can ever be.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">I am
afraid of my true self.</span></span></strong></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 1.95312em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Freestyle Script&quot;;">But I am
willing to let it lead me to where I should really be… back to me.</span></span></strong></span></p>

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<br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">I just feel happy today and I want to write about it. Well, actually, that&#39;s not all about it. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">I just feel free... more free than ever before. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Because finally I finally woke up from a long dream. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">And even though those dreams are really precious to me, I just need to wake up. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">And woke up, I did. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Still, I am thankful. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">For reality. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Reality is so much clearer... brighter... now that I am... HERE.</span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Whatever love song, brokenhearted quote can pass through me right now. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">But I know, I&#39;ll make it. Because I need to do it. For myself. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">I&#39;m good. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">But I promised myself,... I&#39;ll be better. With or without those dreams.</span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">I&#39;ll be better. </span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Because now,...</span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">I am...</span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Finally...</span></strong></span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #de8c9f"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">AWAKE, :)</span></strong></span></em>
    
    
    

    
    
    
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        <title>Five Quotes to Open Your Heart</title>
    
    
    
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            <p>it&#39;s difficult to feel sorry for something that is not your fault.<br />it&#39;s difficult to feel something that just shouldn&#39;t be there.<br />it&#39;s difficult to admit that you felt it even when you shouldn&#39;t have.<br />it&#39;s difficult to say sorry because you know it&#39;s just not your fault.<br />it&#39;s difficult to trust fate with your life.<br />it&#39;s difficult to feel so damned and realize that there really is nothing you can do about it.<br />but to die. and to die again.<br />to sink into that ever deep pit of Pluto.<br />even more difficult, is when you find yourself wanting to rise up once more.<br />fight one more time.<br />but damn. is it even worth a damn.<br />i want to go to hell.<br />send me to hell and back!<br />i need to be burned. <br />i want to die. <br />i want to live.<br />i don&#39;t want to be damned.</p><p><br /> </p>
        
    
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it&#39;s good to live contentedly in the present, there is also greatness
in setting your eyes on a destination and moving towards it. Take these
words from Oprah, the Queen of Ambition, to heart: &quot;Do the one thing
you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The
only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
This is your moment. Own it.&quot; Just like it&#39;s easier to get somewhere
with a map, dreams are easier to reach if you write them down. It&#39;s
hard to deny something exists when it&#39;s right in front of you in black
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            <p>Bakasyon means vacation. Hayy... unfortunately, being a Nursing student does not really give me a grande vacation, or at least semestral break. While other courses are already on the different hotspots (maybe in the couch, in the mall,fastfood chains, or maybe some other cool destinations), I still have my Research Defense on Monday, and still got to document the Community Development Project that we had in one of the adopted barangays of the school. <br />Yesterday, I just came home from an Immersion in Pacol. I spent the next hours just sleeping.</p><p>Phew.</p><p>I never really imagined when I entered this course, or USI for that matter, that vacationing would be so hard. Haha. I wish. </p><p>It&#39;s hard. But as Sir Joseph said, it&#39;s all up to you whether you see it as something called opportunity or something else called bad luck or obstacle. Sometimes, it&#39;s so hard to keep myself focused on the positive side of things, but it&#39;s all part of life, I guess. One moment you&#39;re up, the next you&#39;re down. But as the Chinese proverb says, &quot;Fall seven times, stand up eight.&quot; what matters is you rise up each time you fall. </p><p>Tsk. And another one from Corrie Ten BooM, &quot; There is no pit so deep that God&#39;s love is not deeper still.&quot; </p><p>So vacation or no vacation???</p><p>Doesn&#39;t matter. As long as I get my daily dose of sunshine. And perhaps, be a sunshine too in other people&#39;s lives. </p><p>Wow. I started talking about vacation, and I ended up going somewhere else. </p><p>Anyway. its what you call flight of ideas. Haha</p><p>Marianini<br /> </p>
        
    
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            <blockquote><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">What experience or moment in your life have you learned the most from?&#160; <br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">Submitted by <a href="http://mommiestone.vox.com/" class="enclosure-inline-user" at:enclosure="inline-user" at:user-xid="6p00cd9783fa83f9cc" at:screen-name="AngieK" at:delegate="people-connect" at:user-pic="http://up3.vox.com/6a00cd9783fa83f9cc00e398a3af2a0005-75si" >AngieK</a>.&#160;</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;"><br /></span><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">I spent my high school in a&#160; all-girls Catholic school. At first, I didn&#39;t want to thinking I would miss a lot of fun that there could be from a co-ed school where all my friends were going. But I never thought about what joys there would be from my own school. I never saw that for many years. But after about 2 years of thinking I am the most unfortunate girl to be in THAT school , it finally hit me how I have ignored the wonderful things around me. <br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">the girls around me taught me a lot. They taught me to live not relying on boys, and never to think that we would need boys to be &#39;complete&#39;. They taught me about friendship- it is letting yourself be the wind beneath their wings... it is being happy just to see them spread their colorful wings, and still go back to you, not just when they get a broken wing, but just to give you a hug for comfort, or just to sit and listen. they taught me to risk- and that never risking is the greatest hazard ever in life. <br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">it&#39;s not just my classmates, but the teachers, too. They are never content just to lecture endlessly about theories, grammar and trigonometry. they would never sit to watch a student falling by. they&#39;d be there for you. You never really have to ask them, because they always see through you. They are my ragpickers. But they know when to be the strictest... not for you to behave and fit through their molds, but for you to mold yourself into the best person you can ever be. <br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">HIGH SCHOOL WAS THAT GOOD FOR ME. IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GEMS IN MY TREASURE CHEST OF MEMORIES.</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;">And God, I miss it too much at the moment. <br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.25em;"><br /></span></p></p></blockquote>
 
        
    
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            <div style="text-align: right"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 1.25em;"><strong><div>Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn&#39;t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won&#39;t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It&#39;s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. </div></strong></span><br /><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 1.25em;"><strong><div>Marianne Williamson</div></strong></span><br /><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 1.25em;"><strong></strong></span><br /></div> 
        
    
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