"Distance means so little when someone means so much"

“Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad, because I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”
“True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.”
"In human relationships, distance is not measured in miles but in affection.  Two people can be right next to each other, yet miles apart.  So stay in touch with those who truly matter to you.  Not because it’s convenient, but because they’re worth the extra effort"

"Thế giới này nhỏ lắm, chỉ cần xoay người một cái là bạn không ngờ rằng mình sẽ gặp được ai. Nhưng thế giới này cũng lớn lắm, chỉ cần quay lưng bước đi là sẽ chẳng bao giờ gặp lại"

Trên những cung đường cô đơn

"Nếu bạn không yêu ai nghĩa là bạn giàu có về mặt thời gian. Hãy đi tới những nơi bạn chưa tới, thực hiện những đam mệ còn dang dở hay đơn giản là để bản thân thêm nhiều phần thú vị. Trên những cung đường cô đơn nhưng không đơn độc đó đừng quên gắn trên môi nụ cười. Một cách tự nhiên, nửa trái tim còn lại của bạn vẫn còn đang đứng đợi bạn đâu đó sẽ nhận ra bạn thôi.

Read more: http://tapchi.guu.vn/myguu/hn.djng/dung-yeu-ai-do-chi-boi-vi-nhung-ly-do-sau-Jpd9qepdDebgB.html#ixzz2rNQWbs25"

Vì cuộc đời là những chuyến đi

"Bởi vì, nếu cuộc đời là những chuyến đi thì có khó gì đâu nếu ta vấp ngã, hãy đứng lên và tiếp tục bước tới, nếu muốn làm một điều hoang đường nhưng thú vị hãy cứ làm như thế. Suy cho cùng, hành trình cuộc đời chẳng phải là hành trình tìm kiếm bản thân hay sao? Suy cho cùng, tuổi trẻ để làm gì nếu không phải là dành cho thử thách và trải nghiệm?

Hãy cứ làm những gì mình muốn, hãy cứ loay hoay tìm kiếm và đánh thức con người tuyệt diệu còn đang ngủ say trong bạn bao lâu tùy thích, hãy cứ yêu và tìm kiếm tình yêu, hãy tận hưởng cuộc đời bằng cách thi vị nhất bạn có thể làm được.Không gì tuyệt vời hơn việc tô điểm cho chuyến đi của mình và lấp đầy chúng bằng nguồn năng lượng từ niềm vui và tình yêu mà bạn luôn có thể cho đi và đồng thời nhận lại được.

Và rồi bạn sẽ biết phải viết những gì trong quyển nhật ký hành trình của mình

…khi cuộc đời là những chuyến đi"

Source:  http://gocsuyngam.com/1687/vi-doi-la-nhung-chuyen-di/

Untitled

HIMYM Season 8 - episode 1
"Victoria is wonderful but she is not "Lifelong Treasure of Destiny."

"Victoria is .......... -the thing that is almost, the thing that you want but it's not quite"

"How do you know she's not? I mean, maybe as the years go by, she'll get ..."

"It is not something that develops over time. It is something that happens instantaneously.

It courses through you like the water of  a river after a storm, filling you & emptying you all at once
you feel it throughout your body in your hands, in your heart, in your stomach. If you have to think about it, you have not felt it.

"And you're absolutely sure you'll find that someday?"
"Of course, everyone does eventually. You just never know when or where"

Quote of the day

"Here's an unavoidable truth: You are going to screw up. Everyone — including very successful people —makes boatloads of mistakes. The key to success is, as everyone knows, to learn from those mistakes and keep moving forward. But not everyone knows how. Self-compassion is the how you've been looking for. So please, give yourself a break"

Collection from the net

Lưu luyến  - Unknown

Khi buồn nhất
Không một người bên cạnh
Khi lạc lòng
Không biết phải về đâu !
Khi cô đơn
Thao thức trắng đêm thâu !
Khi thổn thức
Nhìn trái sầu rơi rụng...
Khi tất cả
Thành tro tàn , vỡ vụn...
Mới biết mình
Còn lưu luyến nhớ nhung...
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Với nỗi đau, thời gian là vị thuốc
Sẽ xóa nhòa ký ức với niềm đau...


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Níu giữ?
"....Ta muốn hát trong những ngày khắc khoải
Một cọng rơm buộc lấy mảnh mây trời
Đừng cố giữ những gì còn sót lại
Không thuộc về mình...có níu cũng vuột thôi ! ..."


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Quote

These quotes remind me the "old days". Well, I have changed since then for the better or worse?




“It is a deep regret.” And: “I always believed you could have it all, and I think I have been able to have much of it, but maybe I put too much pressure on myself.”
"Using the lessons they’ve learned — the regrets that many, male and female alike, say they harbor as they look back on time lost —"

http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/15/judith-rodin-and-the-myth-of-women-having-it-all/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29

Quote of the day

"If it's something you truly want, you'll find ways to make it work no matter how rough"- LV

"If life gives you lemon, ask for tequila and salt"

Being able to bring a smile to a patient and a nice patient brightened up your day: priceless :)

Personal touch

An interesting article that sums up my struggle for life balance. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/a-love-note-to-the-workaholic/2012/02/13/gIQAHVNvAR_story.html

 "angst behind the questions I hear from men and women who have accomplished so much professionally but struggle to stay connected personally"

 "Many of us have spent the majority of our adult lives in jobs that train us to outrun and outsmart the experience that underpins love and connection – vulnerability. We wake up in the morning, put on our armor, and march into the office thinking, “I will protect myself. I will not let you see my self-doubt or my fear. I will put on my ‘boss’ face.”

 "This emotional armor we bring to work is heavy, and the weaponry takes a long time to assemble, so when we get home in the evenings, we don’t put it away. It’s too much trouble and, frankly, it’s too risky. "

Madeleine L’Engle writes, “When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability . . . To be alive is to be vulnerable.”

From incidental findings:

"(1) I can't love someone if I don't love myself. I don't mean that in a narcissistic way. I just mean that when it comes down to it, loving someone else requires you to believe yourself worthy of such an emotion.
(2) Happiness is something from within, and I have to learn to be happy by myself if I want to be happy with others. Inner joy isn't supplied by others. It's something gained from within. Happiness based on other people isn't happiness. It's no different than drugs or alcohol. It's a temporary euphoria that is lost as quickly as it's gained.
(3) Part of learning to love myself is accepting who I am. This I am working on. I've been working on it for quite some time. A couple years back, I realized that I was trying to change who I was to accommodate the love interests in my life, and that was a flawed strategy. I need to be myself, and accept that I am the best at being who I am. And that means accepting that I'm a private person, that I have a hard time sharing. that's who I am, and there's no reason to change that or modify it.
Once I learn to accept myself, and to love myself, then (
4) quite simply, I deserve to love and to be loved. I am who I am, and that is the person who deserves to be loved, not someone else. But just because I deserve to love and to be loved,
(5) that doesn't mean that I have any control over who loves me. I've been chasing after eidolons, fantasies. I did not learn until recently that finding the right person is more than attraction. It is finding a person that complements me, that is the other half of my puzzle piece in life.
(6) Love is not trying to fill the emptiness in my life with someone else, but it's trying to find someone who'll want to help me fill those holes. Love is not a solution to anything; it's a partnership. I've always viewed my life as empty and lacking, and maybe it is, but I'm not looking for someone to shore up the gaps. I'm looking for someone to help me along.
But the thing that I really came to terms with is that looking for love, real love, is playing with fire. Because the truth to life is that
(7) if you want to be loved, you must love. Love isn't a one way street. And I can't be loved without loving. I can't take without giving. I can't expect a person to love me and not to love her back.
So, the short of the story is that I think I'm ready to try to start dating again, and that I'm kind of glad that I've had all this time off from it, in spite of all the shit I had to wade through, because I had some lessons to learn, and learning those lessons was valuable, because learning to accept myself for who I am is probably much more valuable to my existence than some scattered dates that led nowhere and would've caused a lot of heartache."

random thought

"Abandoning a career you are good at is a very difficult decision to make -- especially in light of the uncertainty of applying to professional school. I understand why many people let their dreams go at similar junctures in their lives -- it's a hard choice to make.
But I made a bold move at that very dark point in my life. I decided to go back to school full-time and apply. This was a calculated risk. Perhaps it was the right one"

Recipe for Professionalism

"Gather all ingredients together so that they are close at hand.
Get a clean cloth and wipe the bowl clean of any bad habits.
Take maturity, respect, experience and stir gently.
Add unlimited amounts of compassion and kindness. Mix well with responsibility.
To this add caring by the handful, and fold in trust.
Continue to stir gently, adding listening, honesty and generous amounts of communication.
Slip in ethics and treatment goals and pieces of keeping promises.
Bake in an office filled with compassion, respect and self-esteem.
Before serving, sprinkle over with patience and a lot of understanding.
Serve with imagination, good humour, and, on the side, a big smile.”

Dr. Harold Perry

Quote of the day

"Don’t be afraid to invest in your career or future, even if in the short term it doesn’t pay off"

‎"There are times in our life when we choose our challenges, and other times when the challenges simply choose us, it is what we do in the face of those challenges that defines who we are, and more importantly, who we can and will become."

1. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

2. If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

3. People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

4. No matter how hard you try to bury it, it just won’t go away. That's when you know you have to pursue it

Another victim of FB:
My patient asked me to help him signing up for FB. He has heard a lot about it but could never manage to get it due to his physical condition. It's quite an exciting thing for him and he asked me to go around the unit , just to write down names of his friends so that he could add them on FB. Talking about him, I just realized how much I have taken life for granted and would never appreciate it much. Someone without functional arms and legs still cheer up for life and try to live happily while I keep nagging about my failures and about the lack of motivation to get back up.

A small gesture makes my day and change my biased prejudices about some certain people:
While I was going for groceries yesterday, I tried to get a shopping cart. However, I didn't have any change. A kind lady gave me her cart. It was a simple act but it really touches my heart. Having been living in a rough area for a year and going through some tough periods, I have became a bit colder and have some prejudices about certain group of people. Yet, a big lesson is "some people behave badly doesn't mean all of them are bad"

"Nick. You know that there are friends, people, life, love, gfs... You gotta enjoy life" told my manager and "Study, study and study, dear. You don't want to end up like me" told an old lady at the flower factory where I worked part time.
Those words struck my mind...

on a side note: How do you put a price on happiness? How do you put a price on regret? Only you can answer those questions! Everyone has a different risk threshold and amount they are willing to sacrifice......... You only live once no redos ya know

A question

A housemate who works in the library saw me there today and asked me " What do you feel when you're the only one in the library?"
I smiled and replied "a lot of freedom , i guess"
Really? I have always complained about being by myself and the first thought came out of my mind was those words.

Some push to not give up, to work hard toward my dream

I have been so blue lately. The thought of putting that against my head, pulling the trigger and letting it go kept coming back. I just know it's just some random thought. I'm a fighter so I'm not going to give up easily. But where is the strength? Where is the old me? 
Then I read a post relating to my situation today. I was glad that there was someone out there, some one who was in the same situation as well. I just realize that I'm not alone. At one moment I thought I was but I'm not. There are many fighters out there, fighting for the same goal like mine. If they don't give up, neither do I.


Some posts from them (or would I say: my unknown companions on the long journey to a dream?)


"Let's not forget that feelings change like the weather all the time. I hope that before you jump to conclussions and make a quick decision, you take some time trying to relax and live through your situation a couple of weeks. I have noticed that when we are fighting the situation or are under a lot of pressure, all sorts of thoughts come up. I have found it helpful to let those thoughts settle down and pass me by before making a move.  If possible, please get some rest and just do your best. Take care."


"Life starts now, and while we have to make sacrifices to get where we want to be in the future, we should still try and make today enjoyable as well. Hang in there, it can definitely be a struggle to do this when the distance between your goals can be so huge. Try to find some stuff that will make your life today fulfilling as well"

Quote of the day

While on the bus, I sat beside a girl. Her scent reminded me someone in the past. I was texting with my friend so I told him about that.
Here is his advice: "Is the stranger cute? Don't look back. Look forward (Y) so go talk to her."

Best advice, D :)