The First Paradoxical Commandment

I like to look at the Paradoxical Commandments as the modern day 10-Commandments that people general try to live up to in their everyday lives.

The first Paradoxical Commandment is: People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them Anyway! This is really something reasonably hard to do.

I remember reading in a Peanut cartoon strip created by Charles Schultz : Lucy, one the 'characters' of the Peanut cartoon strip once said "I love mankind. It's people I can't stand"!
Pretty interesting yet so very true with many of us.
People can certainly be difficult. Some are hard to love. Some make it hard for us to love them. Some just don't deserve to be loved.

However Theodore Roethke once said "Love begets Love". Do you believe that love can transform people and make them more lovable?

We need to learn to enjoy the immense personal meaning that comes from giving and receiving the gift of love.

It's a Crazy World...

In life sometmes; who you know is often more important than what you know.

Go ahead, you can say it; the world is crazy beyond words. If it doesn't make sense to you, you're right. It doesn't really make sense.

The point is not to complaint about it. The point is not to give up hope.

The point is this: the world doesn't make sense, but you can make sense!.

It is possible to find personal meaning in life. It's all about finding personal meaning in a crazy world.

For the rest of your life, you can do what you believe is right and good and true becos' "it makes sense to you".

If you do what is right, good and true, you will often be appreciated for your contributions.

But if you can find personal meaning without the world's applause then you are free.

You are free to do what makes sense to you, whether or not others appreciate it.

You are free to be who you really are.

You are free to be who you were meant to be.

You are free to find meaning that others miss

And when you find that meaning, you will find a happiness than any you have ever known.

Swimming against the odds

I was reading this article the other day about swimming against the odds in life. Pretty interesting article I would say. Basically it teaches people to believe in your own abilities as it is the key to achieving your goals in life.

The most vital aspect of success is self-belief. The lack of self-belief was what caused people to think negatively and fail. Once you expect to fail, you will tend to choose the actions that take you towards failure. That is the way our brain works. This concept is very much what the Law of Attractions is all about.

If you do not change your negative thought processes, you will end up getting just what you expected in the first place, which is failure.

If you can raise your self-belief, you will start to expect success and will therefore take the actions that eventually lead you to success.
So don't spend your energy looking for reasons why you can't cope but work on your self-belief as it will always lead you to success.

Anyway

So one of the books I'm currently reading is called 'Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments'. Believe it or not, I actually bought this book at a flea market for RM5. This book cost less than my everyday lunch.
I just started reading this book so I can't actually give a complete review of this book however the introduction really caught my attention; it's pretty interesting. Could the rest of the book be awesome reading? Only time will tell.

Anyway, The Paradoxical Commandments should be looked at as a challenge in life. The challenge is to always do what is right, good and true even if others don't appreciate it. Making the world a better place can't depend on applause.

You have to keep striving no matter what because if you don't, many of the things that needs to be done in our world will never get done.

There are some pretty unreasonable things in this book; for example: Even if people are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered; love them anyway.
And maybe the good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. So what??? You have to do good anyway!

Just Friends by Robyn Sisman

I actually saw this book in the bookstore about 2 years ago. I wanted to get it but didn't until 3 months ago. Why I didn't get this book earlier? Well becos' I always want almost every book I see at the bookstore; it's a crazy fettish I have for books. I always want more books than I can manage to read.

Nevertheless, The title of this book never left my mind; how could it. It's like hearing your partner say let's be 'just friends'. Anyway, I loved the illustration of all Robyn Sisman's book. The jacket cover of this book is one reason of getting this book. However, this book is the first one I have read written by Sisman. Sisman is British but this book is written in 21st century New York where two long lost friends, meet up, live together and along the ways of many weird happenings and stubbordness actually managed to fall in love with each other without actually knowing it. A modern-day Pride and Prejudice perhaps?

I wouldn't consider this novel a 'chick lit' genre piece. It's more grown up than that and more realistic. Even though this book is more than 400-pages, you just can't stop reading it. Took me two days to finish it.

I love the male lead character of this book - Jack. He's so hot and I fell in love with him in the end. As I was reading, I was thinking this would be a great book to turn into a movie and true enough Publishers Weekly stated that Warner Brothers has bought the rights of the book but until now hasn't turn it into a movie yet. Why I wonder? I would love your opinion (after reading this book of course) which Hollywood actor could play the role of Jack? The sexy, 6'2 in height, blond-hair writer who started off as a bad-ass guy in this novel but turned into a real sweetheart in the end.