I’m trying to keep this habit of writing in my journal and thinking about things to be thankful for. It really helps to keep things in perspective.
I’m thankful for quiet moments like this when I can stop and reflect about my life and the things happening around me.
I used to spend a lot of time in writing and reflection when I was younger. But as I grew older and busier with life’s “more important things,” I lost my affinity with the paper and pen.
The result: a lot of headaches, confusion and stress.
I know writing is always good therapy for me. I really should do it more often.
2007 has been a tough yet wonderful year for me. And I’m thankful I’ve surpassed and learned from all the challenges I went through.
Motherhood has taught me the real meaning of unconditional love. Jamaine has been God’s way of teaching me that humans do have an infinite capacity to love another no matter the circumstances or difficulties. She is not only my bundle of joy but also my bundle of love. Whenever I look at her, I am reminded to always love and always smile.
Marriage has taught me the power of commitment. It’s about setting aside pride to make way for understanding. It’s about being kind more than being right. It’s about recognizing who and what is most important in your life. It’s about having faith that whatever trials come your way can only make your love stronger. It’s about earning trust and doing your utmost best to keep it.
Trust has been a major challenge for me the past year. I learned that it’s something you really have to safeguard to maintain a relationship.
It takes time to rebuild a broken trust. Sometimes, it seems it can’t be regained at all. Although I may have forgiven those who wasted my trust, I have not forgotten because it reminds me to be cautious of the people to whom I choose to give it.
I’ve let go of the people I’ve held on to for so long. I now see them for who they really are sans the pedestal I have put them on.
I’m thankful because now I know who my real friends are.
I remind myself constantly that the people who are most important and the things that matter most are right here with me.
I’m saying my final goodbye to 2007.
And now, a more exciting, more amazing, more blessed and more wonderful chapter of my life begins.
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hey you’re back! hehe oo nga, ako naman muna magb-break. feeling ko kasi sa sobrang ka-busyh-han, i’d be too incoherent to post anything.
but i’ll still be dropping by everyone’s blogs. so good to have you back!
It feels good to be back.
What I actually do is write in my journal first and then transfer it to my blog. Of course, with some parts edited out…hehe…
Dalaw-dalaw ka uli ha.
hi jayme, you know what, i finally gave up writing in my journal last sept 2007. blogging got in the way. imagine, i’ve had a collection of diaries since grade school ha tapos i had to surrender to blogging. not easy but what could i do
sooooo that’s where all the depression and stress comes from??? kasi i don’t maintain my blog?! heheh… just kidding..
i think it really does help to let it out there.. i mean you know, when you’re reading your problem… it’s like looking it from a third person’s point of view thus making it more easier to solve.
Regarding trust, it is indeed hard to earn and hard to gain… but i guess when you are in a commitment such as ours (naks! i’m part of the club na!), we need to see it beyond us… we just have to learn to give second or at times, third and fourth chances…
it’s easier said than done but then you chose him to be your partner so through thick n thin dapat magkasama kayo
– oopppsss.. this is me explaining how i view trust in a marriage
Ate kengks: Sayang naman!
Iba kasi ang high na nakukuha ko pag paper and pen that’s why I can’t stop writing in my journals. Kahit na ilang buwan na ko nag-stop, pag naisipan kong magsulat uli, go na naman. Malay mo, bumalik uli ang journal writing urge mo. 
Rach: Amen to that. Some of my single friends wonder at “how much more understanding” I’ve become after marriage. It’s all because of love….
you know what, you are right! i am used kasi to writing in my journal everyday e. i could always write kahit na not daily di ba? hmmm…food for thought. makikisabat ako sa inyo ni rach – love and my family made me more patient and more understanding, too
love makes the world go round in a better way. lapit na berdey mo 
It’s amazing ‘no how much you can stretch your patience to the max when you thought hanggang dito na lang ang limit mo.
Oo nga, another exciting chapter of my life will begin. Yahoo! Mag-post na ko ng birthday wishlist soon. Hehe….