Silence

"Silence is a source of great strength." -Lao Tzu

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I usually love silence, and can spend days with it, but when you're trying to get an answer from someone but all he's giving you is an empty space with charged atmosphere, silence can kill you softly. But on the other hand, I respect this silence. When you don't know what to say, you better say nothing. People are often uncomfortable with it, and then try to say something, with disastrous result. I've done that myself, and I regretted it. So I'll let it be. 

I've been trying to interpret this silence, with no use. So I'm waiting for this silence to break. But it is true. Silence has given me great strength. To keep praying, when the chance of success seems minuscule, to be patient, and to persevere. 

On Writers

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10 signs that you're a writer (reblogged from Writers Write):

1. You constantly edit. Whether it’s while you’re driving down the street and pass a misspelled sign, or grammatical errors in Facebook posts, you fix errors constantly in your mind—and sometimes not so silently. 

2. You’re highly observant. And not only do you notice things all the time, but you file them away in your I could write about this later folder. 

3. You often ask, “How could I describe this?” You don’t ignore your life experiences—everything from walking outside during a torrential downpour, to burning yourself while cooking, to taking the first bite of a piping-hot homemade chocolate chip cookie can be used in your writing, and you often pause to think about how you would describe it in words. 

4. You have a hyperactive imagination. There’s never a dull moment in that head of yours—your imagination is always working on overtime to keep you entertained and give you fresh ideas. 

5. You feel inspired to write after reading a good book. Enough said. 

6. You often daydream about your WIPs. Your characters never completely leave you— they walk alongside you throughout the day and give you new ideas when you least expect it. 

7. You feel guilty if you haven’t written anything in a while. What a “while” is depends, but after a writing hiatus, a part of you begins to demand that you get back to the keyboard and reprimands you if you don’t. 

8. Grammar jokes are funny. Well, they are. 

9. You can’t get enough books. After all, every new book is a couple hours worth of inspiration. 

10. You keep doing this writing thing. It doesn’t matter if you’re not published, if no one else cares if you continue to write, if you don’t make a penny off of the words that you put on the page—none of that matters, because you’ll continue to write anyway.

Telltales

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You know you're seriously in love with a person when:

1. The thoughts of him/her occupy your mind even in critically important moments like practice hours, rehearsals and concerts,

2. He/she becomes a permanent subject of all your prayers,

3. Distance and silence makes you sad but they don't kill you because you simply love this person no matter what,

4. You hand the matter over to the Beholder of All Hearts and Creator of the Universe a.k.a. God the Almighty, and leaves Him to decide what is best for you,

5. You're ready to take "not yet" for the answer and keep on praying, or "no" and moving on.

I'm still waiting for my answer. 

The Privilege

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Faith is a privilege. Whatever way we practise it, whether as Muslims or Christians or Buddhists, people who believe that God exists and pray to God are privileged. (Non-believers will strongly argue this, but I wouldn't discuss this with them because we're simply not in the same realm).

There are people who were born in a religious family and raised in a certain religion but they grow up not believing that religious practices are useful and the concept of divinity doesn't make any sense whatsoever to them. And there are people who were born in secular environment but somewhere along the way, they find God and develop their spirituality. Why? I think because God lets them. 

Seems unfair, huh? It's like God is letting some people go astray while others are given the opportunity to find the right path. But the thing is, you have to want to be spiritual if you want God to lead you to the right way. From what I see in people I've met is that once you start wanting it, you slowly but surely go to this direction. 

I'm not saying that non-believers are lacking in something. I know a lot of atheists who have rich lives and are happy and fulfilled. What you don't have you don't miss. 

So again, I'm just saying here that to have faith is to have privilege because God is giving you a chance to be closer to Him. It's a privilege because not everyone is allowed this proximity, and because there are a different world we can discover once we are in the path.

Which also means that we should never take it for granted. Once we start doing that, we don't deserve it anymore.