Em-ey z Kuotez —

“When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.”

-Michael Patrick King-

         

          Life has been the greatest mystery ever to be solved. We are only humans. We stumble because of our choices and our wants. We look at life full of consequences. Whatever action we do, consequences comes in. We run the raise of life but it is not that easy—in achieving our certain endeavors and goals. How come we can’t get there that easy? Is it because it was our choice? Or is it fate that makes these things happen?

          Failure is the weakness of us human beings. Failure makes be doomed in one corner of life. It lessens us to see the positive side of life and it brings us back to the pit of our grave. It eats us up.  It degrades our humanity. We cannot think logically and we accept the fact that we are defeated by failure. We couldn’t let go of the pain as long as we do not see the bright light of hope. In this situation we are really down about our life, but we forgot to BELIEVE in HOPE!

          We fail a million times, but we need to Believe in hope. Em-ey z Kuotez wanted us to see that believing that we can stand back to our feet. Getting back on our feet is the start of hope. This hope will let us refresh our minds from failures. Failures will be the lessons we could take while we walk on the path of a new person we have in us. It is not how many times we fall down in life, but how we get back up and finish strong. Be em-ey z!

Em-ey z Kuotez’ REFLECTIVE STORY:

          There was a girl name Stacy. Stacy is a journalist and has been very in love with her job. She was a career woman. She tends not to have something to do with her love life and with her life as well. Ian, one of her co-workers, fell in love to her. Ian used flowery words to tame her.

         

          Since Ian is an architect he left his writing job and asked Stacy to come with him in Davao. Since Stacy fell in love, too, she left everything for Ian. Her family, her friends, and her job was left behind and forgotten. She went on with her life with Ian thinking that it will last forever.

          Five happy years of love and companionship gave an assurance to Stacy that he will be the man of her life. However, everything changed when they had an accident. For six months, Stacy cannot stand, and she cannot walk at all. She was very doomed and as she felt the pain of having nothing from financial support, social support and emotional support. She lost her self-respect because she was left by the man she thought would be her partner. Ian left her because of an offer in USA and the accident became his turning point to leave Stacy easily.

          Stacy fell down in her life but she tried to stand and walk again though these circumstances came along. She was all by herself just to move back to the life she left. She was so passionate about her goal and she started walking again. Em-ey z!

Em-ey z Kuotez’--“Make life not just a living!”

          One of the kuotez Em-ey discovered that made an essence not only in my life but proven with other people. It was so em-ey z learning from this kuotez.

Making a living has always been a big problem of the society. Humans do all things just to have an income for themselves, for their family, and also for them to buy all the things they need in their daily living. Jobs are a necessity may it be an executive job, an average job, or even the dirtiest job in this world just to gain money to suffice every want and need. They even make holidays a working day, the make the night a day just to fulfill their goal in monetary aspect.

          Making a living made human beings a slave of time and a slave of wanting a greener pasture. They missed out things about life. They missed the moments they should have with their daughters and sons who needs a motherly and fatherly love. They lack spare time to see the beauty of nature, the sunset, the sunrise, and the dawn. They have been in a shallow cage of career and being left out about simple things. All of these things about living created a bigger problem and separated them from the simple things in life and from their family.

          Em-ey z kuotez’--Making life not just a living is the greatest fulfillment one can ever have. There are people who gain a lot of richest and they possess all the things in the world but they lack life. They lack a lot of things about life and what they do is to commit suicide because they are not happy. They enslave themselves because of worldly wants. They fail to use their living to create life.

Making things out of living is a challenging one but a fruitful way to sustain what we call “happiness”. Happiness is the ultimate goal in life with stability and foundation out of living. This is what we call life, life without prosaic cares and worries about the sorrowful living. Life can only be lived once and so we must live it to the fullest. We need to balance living and life. Life offers a lot of opportunities but one must know how to use it. Isn’t this kuotez em-ey z?

Em-ey z Kuotez’ REFLECTIVE STORY:

          William Shakespeare has been known for decades from his writings. He was a very industrious man. He earned a lot of money and gained rich people as his friends. He regarded work as his life. He had a mansion, a lot of helpers, a big room, long tables and the common things rich people have. He was very lucky to have all the things he wanted.

          During meal times, he was served all the food that he wanted. He was served by the helpers in his house. He was used to eat alone devouring all the food. One day, during his lunch, he cannot anymore move a single muscle; he loosed his appetite on food. The helpers don’t know what they will do for him. This moment in his life happened every day. He cannot sleep, he cannot even write good things. He was always worried about how to sustain his living. His living became a nightmare to him. He was stressed out and became thin.

          There was someone who advised him to share what he has. He tried doing it. He donated to the charity, he helped the poor, he told stories to his helpers, he tried simple things, and he tried making life out of living. By that time, he felt happiness. He felt the joy of living a life. He regained his appetite on food and he had peaceful nights without any worries. He learned that living is only a secondary thought but the priority is life.

          He learned the em-ey z kuotez make life not just a living!

Em-ey z Kuotez’--“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”

(Proverbs 27:5)

          Love is the greatest feeling we could ever feel. The love coming from our family, friends, peers, our special someone, and the love from God makes us humane and makes us accept the things we could change and could never change. It is love where we begin to live our life and hold on. This would be and em-ey zing feeling!

          If there is love, there is pain. It is true but eventually pain enveloped with love is a way of rebuking a person without hiding anything. Open rebuke is confronting a person to let them know that what they do is already a sin. You are preventing the person to stop sinning again and again. You control the evil in the actions and words of that person to ensure that you have done a good one for them.

          A lot of people say that if we love a person we tolerate what they do but this verse doesn’t say so.  Confronting in love, can be the most loving thing we can do for someone. If we will hide things from a person, that person will have hatred, will have separation, and eventually remove the nurtured friendship. It is a sin of we will not say things at a certain moment because you are deepening the pain of the person.

          It is better to tell the truth than a bunch of lies in front of the person. If they are hurt it is not anymore your problem at least you told the truth about them. Pretending, faking, and hiding are kinds of secret love because you wanted the person to become more evil. These kinds of secret love create a not so good relationship among people.

          The verse states that overlooking an offense may keep and unite friendship or relationship with different types of people, but one who takes advantage of such gracious act will cause broken homes and broken hearts. Let us learn from this em-ey z kuoted kuotez!

Em-ey z Kuotez’ REFLECTIVE STORY:

          Helen and Beth are best of friends since college. They were always together no matter what. Helen is a type of girl that is very sophisticated and gets what she wants. She is rich and a social type of person. She is an out-going person and doesn’t know her priorities. Eventually during her 4^th year college days, she changed into someone you would never think about her. She turned away from the sophisticated girl to a simple one because of someone she loved.

          Beth on the other hand, is a simple girl. She does her things according to her priorities. She’s not a type of a sophisticated girl but knows how manage her time during her college years. She always assists Helen just to pursue both their goals—to finish their studies.

          Beth graduated first and Helen was left out because of her behind subjects. The following year, Helen graduated and settled down in the Northern Province. Beth and Helen loosed contact but sometimes they communicate only with Hellos.

          At the end of the year, Helen’s mother died of lung cancer and her husband had a third party. She had the most painful year that time and so Beth is always there comforting and helping her to remove all her stresses. She overcomes everything after 8 months without communicating with Beth.

          Beth has always been waiting for her but she never did. Until one time, she texted Beth that her husband still continues to have a third party and needs to get out of her place and live with her. Beth eventually blurted out that she has her own life and she cannot accommodate her the way she wanted to. She wanted Helen to be independent and stand at her own feet.

          This will be the em-ey zees challenge to tell the truth with love!

Em-ey z Kuotez’--“If there is a Will, There is a Way.”

          We all go through challenges and struggles in life. Some people have diseases, sickness, physical disabilities, broken homes, broken hearts, and other types of topsy-turvy problems. Even the rich has their problem on how will they hide their wealth, even the poor has their problem on how will they get rich. Challenges and problems are part of this sorrowful life. We cannot do anything about it but what we can do is to find ways to challenge the challenge and look for solutions for our problem in any ways that we can. These challenges, struggles, and problems make us a tough one, a strong one. It matters how we are going to finish strong and how we are going to create a new in our lives by beating these challenges. It is em-eytter of choice to be tough in this sorrowful life!

          In this state of crisis, we need to act and work on the things that will change our lives. We need to ponder and reflect on things that will help us be a positive being. The will was freely given to us by God and it is up to us to use it in a negative way or in a positive way. We need to get out of our comfort zones to see what lies beyond our capabilities and our strengths. We need to make our weaknesses as an opportunity to create a positive thing in our life. We should not doom ourselves in problems and cry over the things that we can still do something about it.

          We need to change our energy, changing our course of action will make a better life. Moving on and move forward on painful things because it will not help us. We have to make a stand on our mountain and reach our goal in our own. Reflect on this em-ey zing statement!

Em-ey z Kuotez REFLECTIVE STORY:

          One of the teachers I know had this principle in life. Her name is Daisy. She is currently working now at a university where she graduated from. Her life with her family was a struggle because the parents cannot afford to give all the things she and her siblings wanted. Her father was murdered and her mother died because of a disease. Her siblings were the only family left with her.

         

          Since no one would assist her in her studies, she applied to be a student assistant in the university and to fill her allowance, every summer she goes to a farm to help in harvesting rice and other agricultural products. When she received her payment she saves them just for her to buy her books and other requirements of the school.

          She disciplined herself not to have any boyfriend while she was studying. Eventually, she finished studies on time. She was the only person who graduated college within her family. She pursued really hard and took the challenge positively!

          Now, she is known to be one of the best English teachers in the university.