Hey guys! It's been a while since I've written something here, but better to do it late than never, right?

The reason why I've kept quiet for all this time is because I've been focusing on and writing on another site of mine. While this was the first website I had, I since created multiple others and have for now a good while been focusing all my efforts on a single website.

You're probably interested to hear about it - so I won't keep you waiting any longer!

The website in question is my personal website. It focuses on fables and stories that teach you life lessons.

If you've at all interested in learning important life lessons and life philosophy through such short stories, I warmly recommend you to check it out.

Occasionally, I post also longer form content other than stories, which might be quite interesting for you also. So you never know what awaits! Until you see it.

I hope to see you around. Thanks so much!

Anniversary Of 1972 Andes Flight Disaster (Anniversary Of Persistence And Love)

Yesterday, 13th October of 2012, was the 40 year anniversary of the day when Urugyan charter flight crashed in to the Andes mountain range. And what followed, was the hardest, the cruelest, most emotional but also most magnificent survival fight world has ever known. Or to be honest, world didn't know much of it, because for 72 days they were thought to be dead, until Nando Parrado (one of my biggest centres of admiration lately) and Roberto Canessa breached the Andes after trekking for 10 days and over 60 miles in the lethal mountain range.

Not actually knowing about the upcoming anniversary, I had ordered the book Miracle In The Andes a few weeks ago and it arrived last week. I read all of it in two days, and I am completely amazed by the sheer willpower of Nando and every one of 16 remaining survivors who endured the cold, the starvation, the isolation and the death happening all around them. It is as a book, remarkable, because it portrays all the important qualities of human spirit and soul, all in the middle of the world's most unforgiving environment.

Despite of their friends dying around them, despite of the impossible circumstances they were in, they persevered. They held together, they clinged to hope, and they managed to get out. In the book Nando says that "it wasn't cleverness or courage or any kind of competence or savvy that saved us, it was nothing more than love, our love for each other, for our families, for the lives we wanted so desperately to live. Our suffering in the Andes had swept away everything trivial and unimportant. Each of us realised, with a clarity that is hard to describe, that the only crucial thing in life is the chance to love and be loved".

This, in my opinion, is the true soul and lesson of the book, and their whole ordeal in the Andes. It might just be the most valuable lesson anyone could ever learn in their life.
 
And as for myself, I'm convinced I intend to follow that lesson in my life.

Why You Shouldn't Let Disappointments Wear You Down

Just the other day I was waiting for a bus. It was really late and I was tired. This bus, let's call it "main bus", would have taken me really close to my home so I wouldn't have to walk much at all. I was waiting for it, tired. It didn't come at all. I was really disappointed and for a while, I was feeling a bit angry at the bus company and everything because of this. In my mind it was really simple, there is schedules and buses should follow those. For a while all my thoughts were overshadowed by my disappointment.
To my surprise, there came a new bus, much quicker one that would take me right next to my door. My mind was suddenly lifted, and the feelings of disappointment disappeared from my mind. And what's more, as I was sitting in the bus on my way home, I saw the original bus make its way to the station, really late. But I didn't care about it anymore. After the initial disappointment, I let it go and moved on.
I figured things like this happen in life. Disappointments come, sometimes bigger than late bus, but the nature of them stays the same: they shall not keep you down. Because, eventually, it's just a passing thing and something good is sure to come your way. 
And sometimes, the new thing, can be so much better.

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

Trust Your Intuition And Believe Yourself To Find Your Way

Find your own path. Let others go theirs. If there's someone walking the same path, be kind to them and share your journey. Believe in yourself and your life. Believe truly, even when others don't. As you go on, be true to yourself. Listen to your needs and live with joy and integrity and clean conscience. Nothing exhausts a person like living with dishonesty. If you do wrong, admit what you've done and be sorry in the truest way you can. Do it the best way you can, so you don't have to carry the baggage of guilt. Do things that make you happy. Try to concentrate on things that you truly love. Sometimes jobs, careers, things and people are shrouded by what we think will make ourselves look good in the face of others. But that's false. Don't lose yourself in the dark corners of dogma, which is living from other people's thinking.  Do what makes you happy. Do what you feel like doing. Do what's honest to you. Do it for you. When you trust and follow your intuition and heart, they'll guide you to things you love doing, even if you don't know what they are yet. The most important part is to believe and trust.

Yourself.



The greatest, most complicated, most important and most rewarding philosophy in the world are the choices you make throughout the daily mundane life -The Philosophyist Blog-

Why Persistence Is Everything

Looking at the latest internet sensation "Gangnam Style" by Korean artist PSY, you cannot help but wonder the peculiar ways success works in. Did he ever in his career think he would become a worldwide phenomenom? Did he believe that? I would guess not, but he has indeed done that. 233 million views and 2 300 000 likes (Guinness World Record) in YouTube as of 22.9.2012. He debuted in 2001 with his first album and since has endured financial struggles and law cases against him, but still kept on going. That led him to where he is now. 11 years of struggle, and in few months, success finally shows itself to PSY in such a drastic way.
I'm sure that if he was asked, he wouldn't regret at all the past 11 years. But during those, who knows, maybe he had a different opinion. It's just another case where the phrase "Keep On Going" is worth everything.

Music video of PSY performing Gangnam Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 

Quotes To Help You Be Yourself

The cornerstone for everyone's individual life is their fearlessness of being completely and honestly who they are. But there are so many forces in the world that sometimes distract people from doing just that, and those are the times you need to re-evaluate your actions. These quotes might help you to lose fear and doubts, and just be yourself.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

 

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel

 

Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

 

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~Kongzi

 

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?  ~Fanny Brice

 

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  ~Shakti Gawain

 

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  ~Steve Jobs

 

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.  ~Tony Robbins

 

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.  ~Marianne Moore

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.  ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774

 

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss

 

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.  ~Desiderius Erasmus

 

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.  ~Julius Charles Hare

And also a note of advice. Never look for quotations to be your ultimate truth. They are great for finding your way, but they're not something to blindly follow. Realize their wisdom, but stay true to your own ways of seeing things, because they are the most valuable thoughts you have.

Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

The greatest, most complicated, most important and most rewarding philosophy in the world are the choices you make throughout the daily mundane life [The Philosophyist Blog]

How To Find Out The Things That Matter The Most To You

Sometimes life can be confusing. Everything just kind of happens, and sometimes there isn't time to process it all. It is common for everyone to be lost with their thoughts and feelings at some point during their life. To be content with our lives, we need to follow our passions and do things that are dear and matter the most to us. But how to find out the things that we should go after and that we truly feel are most important to us? How do we know what things really matter to us? There is a simple way to find out that, in a form of imagination-game.

How to find what you truly care about

We often realize the true value of people, places and things only after they've gone out of our reach. Because of that, we need to think of a situation where those circumstances come true. The best way to do this, is to think at yourself at your own deathbed. Imagine that, and ask yourself certain questions. What kind of things would you be grateful for doing? What things would you regret having done? What kind of places would you have wanted to visit? People to not let go of? Secrets to reveal? Love to confess? All pride, fear of embarrassment and failure fall away in the face of death, what is left is only our honest desires and dreams.

What results from this kind of thinking are the purest and most honest desires of your heart. It is your own choice what to do with them, but remember, that whatever happens, they'll meet you again in the end, because you've just taken a glimpse to the future. 
The manner of that reunion will be up to you.



 

The greatest, most complicated, most important and most rewarding philosophy in the world are the choices you make throughout the daily mundane life