http://pinoyreboot.blogspot.com/2011/05/keeping-up-with-joneses.html

Stumbled upon this post about keeping up with the Joneses, flaunting on Facebook every material things that you have just bought and being too materialistic.

One thing that I find superficial on any networking sites is people trying to be somebody that they are not in real life. Okay, it’s fine to tell your friends that you’ve been to these places but please, it’s annoying to see you posing in every corner of the place where you have just been. It is like, “Duh, as if we care if you’ve tasted this and that, tried this and that!”

I know of someone who has a huge credit card bill because she just can’t accept that her friend has this and that while she is stuck in the same old furniture, electronic appliances and wardrobe. Heck, her friend is earning twice or even thrice as much as she earns! Why bother to compete with someone if you can’t even pay your utilities on time?

Jealousy is bad for your pocket. It brings out the insecurities in you. The more you compete with someone, the more money is spent on unnecessary things…and it leaves you wanting more to spend more to cover your insecurities.

“If you get tired of someone, then you are never really in love with her.”
~comments my youngest brother

I disagree. You can get tired of someone but you can still be very much in love with her. You can leave someone but it doesn’t mean that you are no longer attracted to her. It’s all about compatibility and benefits. You don’t stay with someone who wears a strong cologne even if she knows it could make you sick. You don’t stay with someone that you think will be a liability rather than an asset. Love is very romanticized; thus it becomes unrealistic.

I fell in love once with someone but that someone was easy-go-lucky and had a different culture than me. I cut the budding romance because I don’t think either of us would give in to each other’s MUSTS.

I stayed with someone for a long time. I was sick and tired with what’s happening to our relationship but I stayed, knowing that he could be a good provider for me and our future family. He cut the relationship and found someone better than me. I was sick and tired of the relationship, sticked with him through the years, loved him and yet he chose to leave me. He was content in me, even telling me that I was the perfect wife material, realized that he could not live with someone with a past, found a better partner and then left me. We both LOVED. But we never stayed forever in the name of love.

Love is a complicated thing…. once, I fell in love with someone. But that someone had someone in his life. But that’s another story!

Dear Mommy,

Today is mother’s day.
Let me thank you for the times that you took care of me.
I was a two-month old fetus when you learned of my existence. You seemed to be so nervous; I could feel it inside your womb. You must be very ecstatic about the good news.

The following day, I heard you talking with your bestfriend. I could not understand if you were crying or just laughing out loud. Your bestfriend seemed excited, too. She was talking loudly, I could almost hear her scream.

On my 3rd month, you caressed your tummy. Oh, I could almost feel your hands! Mommy, you must really love me! You even took five capsules of vitamins. But the vitamins made me sick! Mommy, I could go on inside of you just fine. Please stop taking those vitamins.

You were an active lady, always on the go. You did not stop playing tennis even when I was terrified by your harsh running and leaping. Mommy, I hate the rollercoaster.

On my 4th month, you talked with a lot of people but the one conversation that I would not forget was your talk with Daddy. He suggested that I should be out of your womb. Why? I was not yet fully developed, I could never survive outside of your womb. Can you not wait another five months, Mommy?

Your heart was beating fastly on that day when you delivered me. I was reacting heavily to the medicine that they inserted on your “tunnel.” I was telling the doctor that I was just a four-month-old fetus. I was not yet ready to see the world. But Mommy, I understand your excitement about me coming. I love you, Mommy.

Mommy, for a minute, I saw your face then everything went black. When I woke up, I was in the company of small babies like me. I feel happy and content here, Mommy. But sometimes, I wonder how it is like to live with you.

Mommy, happy mother’s day! You’re the best mommy in the world!

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I don’t know if I should call it prophetic insight but I’ve always thought that Osama Bin Laden could never be in Afghanistan years after the 911 attack. To be exact, I’ve always thought of him hiding in the wilderness of Pakistan. Osama could never stay that long in Afghanistan because he knew that that place would be the prime target of the American military. The fall of the Taliban is another factor why I thought Osama fled Afghanistan and seek domicile to another country. Then why Pakistan? Pakistan is geographically near to Afghanistan and it is also a Muslim country. The question whether the Paki government was aware of his presence in Pakistan is a subject of debate. I, for myself, believe that there are some Paki officials who helped him get through Pakistan. Osama’s wife was said to leave for Yemen and then came back to Pakistan. Amal, being the wife of a high profile international terrorist, could even be escorted by some Paki officials while traveling to and from the airport.

America spent billions of dollars as foreign aid to Pakistan. Now, it seems that Pakistan is a double player on this: being friendly to both the Al Qaeda leader and to the American government. Who’s really running the show from the start?

Princess Diana passed away in 1997 and so is Mother Theresa of Calcutta.

Prince William married Kate Middleton in 2011 while Pope John Paul II was beatified on the same year.

I’ve always been fascinated by royals. I was a young girl when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer that is why I don’t have a recollection of their wedding. But I was very fond of Princess Diana. She was a charming lady and she seemed sweet and generous, too. I was in high school when she exposed her marital problems. I learned that despite being a royal, she was not spared from problems that us, ordinary people encounter. I shed a tear when she died on a car accident in 2007. I think even Patricia Evangelista (GMA reporter) shed a tear, too. Prince Wiliam got his looks from the Spencers. Sometimes, I see him glancing like the way Diana did. During his wedding, he was looking at Princess Katherine in a loving way. Is it just me who saw Prince Harry looking at Princess Katherine and he seemed to be admiring his sister-in-law’s bridal beauty?

Princess Diana was called the “Queen of Hearts” because of her charitable missions. Mother Theresa was the champion of the masses, the poorest of poor and the outcasts of society. She was a living saint and every Catholic’s inspiration and role model. Pope John Paul II was the “people’s pope.” He was charismatic, enthusiastic and people from all walks of life, religion and beliefs respect and adore him. Karol Wojtyla came a long way from being a laborer and a seminarian to one of Catholic churche’s most recognized member.