I had the chance to talk with my friend, a nursing student who recently had a new 
It might sound like a cliche, but she didn't laugh. She didn't care to answer the question, either. She thought about her unfinished business, her deep-seated hatred for her mother, her arguments with her irresponsible father, her untold love for her brothers...it was a profound eye-opener for her. If she would die right now, she'd never be able to accomplish those 'unfinished businesses' she has on her checklist.
Now this friend of mine is such a futuristic type of person, 
always planning and looking ahead, not wanting to do things right now, putting them off repeatedly until they pile up on her list. I am glad that she is starting to rethink her time frame. Next day she actually told her mother that she loved her, told her father that she loved him for everything that he is...and so on. Thinking about it now, it would be such a waste of a precious life planning 
ahead when you can do now what must be done.
I feel that, in our present time where life is too fast-paced, especially with the progress of technology, people barely have time to give themselves some comfort of a break, spend some quality and quantity time with their families, stop and appreciate for a moment how the simple things can make them smile. If now now, when do we start?
It is important to live liife to the fullest, living life as if it were the last.
People get jealous all the time. It is human nature. Me? I just experienced jealousy recently. When I was younger, since I was born until I was about 10 or 11, my parents really favored my older brother. He gets all the attention, and
whenever he wants something, my parents would buy it. But me, I need to have high grades to get what I want. You know..before they give me something, I need to earn it, I need to give them something. Also, I get all the blame for my brother’s fault. I also have to do his assignment, as if I didn’t have my own! And his responsibility is mine to accomplish! So you see, I really felt bad then, I felt everything was unfair! My brother was so spoiled!!
Whenever my mom would tell me not to do something, I would still do it. But I easily feel guilty, so I still always go back and ask my parents’ forgiveness, or undo what I have done. Hehehe…But this cannot go on forever, right?
So one day, yaya was trimming mom’s toenails. She took this opportunity to talk to my mom. She made my mom realize how she was being unfair with her children. After their talk, to my surprise, both my parents suddenly changed. 
They began asking my opinions, asking me what I want and encouraging me a bit. Still, I have the responsibility to ‘help’ by brothers in their school works. This became the usual treatment until…
It was the summer of 2004. I and my older brother were attending summer classes for preparation for the UPCAT, ACET and DLSUCET in Ahead, the branch in Greenhills. Everything was normal, until one day my brother stopped talking to me. I felt confused and frightened; I didn’t know what I did to deserve this. I thought of every possible cause, but as I clearly recalled, I didn’t do 
anything wrong. I tried asking him if he was angry, but his answer was always ‘why would I be angry at you?’ I tried to talk to him but he would always turn away from me. This treatment went on until June.
Then one day, he 
began to talk to me, he shared some of his jokes to me, and sometimes talk to me about his experiences in school. I was really surprised! At first, I was scared that he might get angry with me again, so I was very cautious with everything I do and say. Then, my yaya confirmed his change of heart when I asked her why he was acting that way. I learned that my brother consulted yaya days before. He told her that he was jealous of me because I get everything I want, and that I am favored by my parents. My yaya’s reaction? She laughed! 
Imagine my brother’s surprise when yaya laughed. He was pouring his heart out and she laughs. Yaya’s answer? ‘Now you now how your sister felt when she was younger’. Now, our relationship is back to normal, I guess he realized that we all have our own ups and downs. And jealousy can only ruin relationships.
Love is an easy thing to do, but if not done right, it may lead to jealousy, possessiveness or coldness. But why is loving in human so hard? (C.W. Lewis) Socrates’ answer, we are not virtuous 
enough. We do not know what love requires. We also do not know why love requires what it requires. We set standards for love. We always require ourselves to sacrifice a lot for our loved ones, to give more than what we receive, to be faithful and unselfish. We require ourselves to love unconditionally. But then, we are born to be selfish. As I have said, 
selfishness is human nature. Then why do we have to contradict nature? Isn’t it much easier to just go with the flow? Usually, there is a conflict between the mind and our nature. Our mind tells us not to be selfish and jealous, but it is in us that we are selfish and jealous. I believe that we cannot help but feel these feelings. Although we tell ourselves that we don’t feel jealous about another person, unconsciously, we still do. This proves that it is easier to do what we want to do rather than doing what we ought to do.
wife went to visit his sister-in-law who just gave birth to a cute little baby girl. I came along with them since I don’t have anything to do at home. She was staying nearby so we went there and brought some food for her. When I saw her, she was happy, healthy and as if nothing can ruin her day. We talked, ate chocolates, and later went home. That night, when my 
parents came home, I told them what we did and what I saw. My mom told me some information about their family. But there was one thing she told me that I did not expect. 
just gave birth, and she has 2 year old twins. I mean, they were just married for a few years and now her husband is gone? Isn’t that just totally unfair? This made me think….what is our purpose in life? People say that if we serve that purpose, that is the time we will die. But what about those babies who died upon birth? What was their purpose? Or how about those kids and teens who died because of sickness or accidents? What were their purposes? They did not do anything extraordinary, they just studied, obeyed the rules, and followed 
orders, and so on. Maybe they gave their parents happiness. But wasn’t that happiness too short? That happiness might or might not justify the fact that sometimes, those kids gave them hardships and pain. Those kids may have lived longer and give more people longer happiness and help. And what about those poor people who experience pain and suffering for their whole lifetime, what is their purpose? What do we expect from 
them? Do we expect them to do something that could equate to ‘serving their purpose’?
I believe that we live just to be. It means that we live here on earth just to experience how to live and know how to be human. This is why I believe that we should live life to the fullest. As each and every one of us knows, our lifetime here on earth is short. We need to savor every experience, memories and everything around us. And I think everything we experience, whether painful or happy, is quite worth it. Some people may say that the experiences we feel in this lifetime wouldn’t be worth anything because we wouldn’t 
remember it in our next lifetime. And I agree that we wouldn’t remember everything in our next lifetime, but I believe that all our experiences are part of who we are. It means that in our next lifetime, a part of our past experience still remains in us. Even though we don’t remember it all, I believe that in the back of our mind, some still remains, especially those experiences that had the most impact in our lives.
sophomore that year in my high school then. My religion teacher was teaching us something about God, and then something in my mind snapped. I asked, 'Why was my teacher insisting that we should do this, we should not do that, 
so that we could enter the kingdom of God?' Since then, I have questioned a lot about God. I am very confused, and now I want to state my side. 
and Allah the same? Why then Christians claim that God is everything and other Gods as nothing? I also want to point out the meaning of atheist. According to the book 'Philosophical Landscape', 'an atheist claims to know that God does not exist.' It says there 'God', not 'a god'. Does that mean that Muslims who believe in Allah are atheist? I also want to point out what St. Anselm said, about atheists having to believe in God before they could contradict. How can someone contradict something they know that doesn't really exist? It's quite crazy to think it, actually. Some say, why waste time contradicting when you can just live and don't believe? Well, for me, in a discussion, do we just 
agree on all of the topics even if we don't agree with it? Of course we would contradict and say our side of the discussion. It's just that simple, when you don't believe in it, then don't. But you don't actually have to believe or accept it first before you could argue. Then there is also this argument about the absence of something is nothing. I agree about this argument. I agree that there is no such thing as nothingness. But an e-mail about this caught my attention. It says that you don't see your brain, so how come you know there is a brain? Same goes with God, even if no one has seen God, you still know that He is there. Well at least some of us have seen one, like brain surgeons. And we can also see one with the help of modern technologies, for example, CT scans. But, has anyone seen God? I mean, really seen Him? Then there was also the 
argument that there is no such thing as cold, it is only the absence of heat. Well, coldness is a word representing absence of heat, so still it exists. In addition to all of these, I want to point out the Christian crusaders during the medieval times. Isn't it written in God's commandment that 'thou shall not kill'? Then why did the crusaders travel around the world, forcing people to believe in Christianity and killing those who don’t want to? This is against the commandment given by God. Crusaders also believed that to kill an infidel in the path to heaven. Isn't it that this also contradicts this commandment? And how sure are the people that it was really God who dictated the 
commandments. Moses may have just carved the commandments in those tablets himself and just claimed that God dictated it to him. No one was with him that time, so how could he claim that it was God's laws? There was no proof for that claim. These are the questions that are bugging me for quite some time now. I don't know, but I may be wrong. But I just want to say that maybe someone can dream up of something that seems to make so much sense, but it doesn't mean that it physically does makes sense, does it?
