What do I live for?

Nathan Scott once said "It is the oldest story in the world. One day you are seventeen and planning for someday, and then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today and that someday is yesterday and this is your life."

I want to ask you one thing; close your eyes. Think about your future. What do you see? Isn't it brimming with certainty, that there are lots of beautiful things that will come in your way or isn't it darkness that you have no any idea what will happen next?

As you continue reading this blog, you'll understand more about yourself, your future and your purpose.

Some people live for their dreams, others, for fame and fortune while others live for their loved ones. But sadly, there are people who are just simply existing or just live. Have you ever realize the deeper meaning of your living? Then this is the right and perfect time for you to discover what do you live for.

There are people in history who serve as inspirations and made wonderful legacies that also change many lives.

Mother Theresa

Mother Teresa was a humanitarian. This means she did things to help out other people. Her entire life was fully devoted to helping the poor, the sick, the needy, and the helpless. 

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616). English poet and playwright –  Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.

The plays of Shakespeare have been studied more than any other writing in the English language and have been translated into numerous languages. He was rare as a play-write for excelling in tragedies, comedies and histories. He deftly combined popular entertainment with an extraordinary poetic capacity for expression which is almost mantric in quality.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

How happy some o'er other some can be!

Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.

He will not know what all but he do know.

And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,

So I, admiring of his qualities.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,

Love can transpose to form and dignity.

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste—

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

And therefore is Love said to be a child,

Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,

So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.

For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,

He hailed down oaths that he was only mine.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an eminent freedom activist and an influential political leader who played a dominant role in India's struggle for independence. Gandhi is known by different names, such as Mahatma (a great soul), Bapuji (endearment for father in Gujarati) and Father of the Nation. Every year, his birthday is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday in India, and also observed as the International Day of Nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi, as he is most commonly referred to, was instrumental in liberating India from the clutches of the British. With his unusual yet powerful political tools of Satyagraha and non-violence, he inspired several other political leaders all over the world including the likes of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Aung San Suu Kyi. Gandhi, apart from helping India triumph in its fight for independence against the English, also led a simple and righteous life, for which he is often revered. Gandhi's early life was pretty much ordinary, and he became a great man during the course of his life. This is one of the main reasons why Gandhi is followed by millions, for he proved that one can become a great soul during the course of one’s life, should they possess the will to do so. 

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

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We discovered how they became  great influence with many people around the world. 

Through their different achievements and through their own stories, it can enlighten us to take all of these and make it as bases of our own's. Their life were became very productive and in fact they made changes. They've done great things. Meaningful and powerful that became part of the world's history.

  Take other people achievements as your inspiration to do good, better or yet the best out of you but don't be dependent to someone or anybody that you think they can than you and to be dependent with their decision and capabilities. NO! Believe in yourself that you can do it and work out on it. 

And now, whatever your level in the community, situation in your life and whoever you are. It is not yet too late for you to build the tower of your dreams, kingdom of beautiful things and discover what is/are the reason/s of your existence.

Activity: Answer using Google Docs and send to salvadorsarahmae06@gmail.com or latersaubrey@gmail.com

1. How does the blog affect you?

2. What is/are your plan/s after reading the blog?

3. What are your dreams in life?

4. How can you turn it into reality?

5. If you are going to right a letter for your future self, what will you say? 

6. If you are given a chance to write a letter for the past, what will you say? (Opposite way of question no. 5)