The Better Part of Me
This an earlier post [originally posted sometime mid-May].
A friend o' mine just requested me to repost it [4 whatever reason].
[It is very easy, actually - I just retype the date to any arbitrary date and
the blogsite defaults it chronologically to the typed date]
This post is in my Top Ten most hit posts.
My #1 most hit blog post [released Dec. of 2012] has had over 2,200 hits
-- and still counting to this very day
[That MOST visited blogpost features a college volleyball team - & mind you - the images in that post are not action photos - they are ALL Candid Behind-t-Scenes photos of the team]
-- and still counting to this very day
[That MOST visited blogpost features a college volleyball team - & mind you - the images in that post are not action photos - they are ALL Candid Behind-t-Scenes photos of the team]
My Top Ten [most hit blogposts] are MOSTLY Human Interest features such as that afore mentioned post ->[the volleyball team]. {To think that I was originally hoping to promote this as an All-Sports blog - Ha!!! } Truth is - recent events in my personal life prompted me to write more "human interest" feats - as of late - I simply could not hold back.
Vanessa and Nace The Remulla Siblings
Bianca and Jake
This post just happens to be one of most spur-of-the-moment ones - ever.
What actually compelled [inspired] me to make this entry ASAP were the pictures of Michelle Gumabao and her sister Katrina [wearing fuschia blouses] [I actually took five snaps] I had just taken less than 24 hrs ago.
I took the photos
[I just happened to bump into the siblings in the Arena dug out - FYI, though -I actually had met them b4, in the latter part of 2012 - and actually posted a photo of Michelle and Katrina, along with their brother Mark and Michelle's boyfriend, in a blog post]
after the Ateneo-UST volleyball match at the Mall of Asia Arena [Thursday, late afternoon]. Later, the next morning, dawn, while editing a bundle of photos [including the Michell/Katrina one] from that Thursday - I realized how much the images "hit home" for me - I couldn't help it - They are such simple photos, such fleeting moments - of two sisters smiling together - yet the heart and soul and the beauty of it all went way, way, way beyond the girls being photogenic or being well dressed.
It spoke volumes. I could feel the love between the two - the harmony and blessedness [is there such a word?] of it all - hours, even, after the images were taken. Nakakainggit talaga. I said to myself - if all the people in this planet - even only half - could LIVE that kind of harmony in a relationship 24/7- Our world will be so, so much better. Maybe that possibility exists only in fantasyland - but hey -->Ain't no crime to dream. I thought, If ALL my relationships [family and friends] could be that "perfect", seamless and so smooth and comfortable and Blessed - - - That would would be so . . . -- actually I have no words for that !!! so I'll just Sigh -
Basta - I just had to pull out [an image or two or even a dozen more !! - even if such chosen images have been posted already in previous feats!] - a random sampling of my favorite, most heart-tugging human interest photos that manifest that oh so sacred bond between two people - wether they be brothers, sisters, fathers, daughters, mothers, barkadas, buddies, team mates, cousins, boyfriends, girlfriends or what - just to complement the Michell/Katrina photo.
The MK photo [and the others posted herewith] easily reminds me, inspires and dares me try to be simply a better person every single day - To be a little kinder, a little more patient, to smile a little more [even if I'm hurting inside] and rekindles this faith and hope in all that is good in me --> and in us all. Despite our human flaws - I like to think that all of us have that better part of us - our innate compassion, humility, courage, and love for each other - and that we can find ways to LIVE those qualities day-to-day [although I always find it easier said then done] . . .
What actually compelled [inspired] me to make this entry ASAP were the pictures of Michelle Gumabao and her sister Katrina [wearing fuschia blouses] [I actually took five snaps] I had just taken less than 24 hrs ago.
I took the photos
[I just happened to bump into the siblings in the Arena dug out - FYI, though -I actually had met them b4, in the latter part of 2012 - and actually posted a photo of Michelle and Katrina, along with their brother Mark and Michelle's boyfriend, in a blog post]
after the Ateneo-UST volleyball match at the Mall of Asia Arena [Thursday, late afternoon]. Later, the next morning, dawn, while editing a bundle of photos [including the Michell/Katrina one] from that Thursday - I realized how much the images "hit home" for me - I couldn't help it - They are such simple photos, such fleeting moments - of two sisters smiling together - yet the heart and soul and the beauty of it all went way, way, way beyond the girls being photogenic or being well dressed.
It spoke volumes. I could feel the love between the two - the harmony and blessedness [is there such a word?] of it all - hours, even, after the images were taken. Nakakainggit talaga. I said to myself - if all the people in this planet - even only half - could LIVE that kind of harmony in a relationship 24/7- Our world will be so, so much better. Maybe that possibility exists only in fantasyland - but hey -->Ain't no crime to dream. I thought, If ALL my relationships [family and friends] could be that "perfect", seamless and so smooth and comfortable and Blessed - - - That would would be so . . . -- actually I have no words for that !!! so I'll just Sigh -
Basta - I just had to pull out [an image or two or even a dozen more !! - even if such chosen images have been posted already in previous feats!] - a random sampling of my favorite, most heart-tugging human interest photos that manifest that oh so sacred bond between two people - wether they be brothers, sisters, fathers, daughters, mothers, barkadas, buddies, team mates, cousins, boyfriends, girlfriends or what - just to complement the Michell/Katrina photo.
The MK photo [and the others posted herewith] easily reminds me, inspires and dares me try to be simply a better person every single day - To be a little kinder, a little more patient, to smile a little more [even if I'm hurting inside] and rekindles this faith and hope in all that is good in me --> and in us all. Despite our human flaws - I like to think that all of us have that better part of us - our innate compassion, humility, courage, and love for each other - and that we can find ways to LIVE those qualities day-to-day [although I always find it easier said then done] . . .
. . . I dare say - sometimes, for me, the hardest thing to do is -
say a humble hello - give sincere smile -
say simple "I'm Sorry" or "I Miss You"
say a humble hello - give sincere smile -
say simple "I'm Sorry" or "I Miss You"
Yes
- In others, [sometimes] I see - the [missing] better part of me.
- In others, [sometimes] I see - the [missing] better part of me.
brosi gonzales
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