Comments on: Let Your Truth Shine

By: vina

vina — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:10:50 +0000

i have found myself at 30.

By: jey

jey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:15:12 +0000

as always, timing ang post mo. i don’t blog hop as often as before but every time i’m reading your entries you hit me right to the core. and you inspire me. thanks, toni!

By: kat

kat — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:04:48 +0000

toni-tones! thank you for the lovely reference to my blog! what a sweet and unexpected surprise! *hugs*

By: Jerome aka Bridget Jones

Jerome aka Bridget Jones — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:30:30 +0000

My experience is backwards. I have always been a non-conformist. Going against the flow was where I really explored and found my uniqueness. But as I found that I was really unique, I sort of had the feeling of “not belonging.” I realized that I was not trying to be unique–I was trying to be different. It was a humbling experience that taught me to acknowledge the wonderful nature of commonalities for this connotes acceptance of co-existence. This made it clearer for me as to my uniqueness. There may be divas out there, but I assure you…I AM MY OWN DIVA… hahahahahaha! ang ganda na di ba? thanks for this post, tonigurl! hugs!

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:54:38 +0000

Yes Toni, very well said!! One way of being open minded is to consider the ideologies and values of what other people are trying to express for the truth is as vast as the universe itself because it’s engineered to be bigger than any individual.
Much like our lives, no matter how different it is from other people we are still tethered by human nature for we are all created to live our own purpose and to obtain self actualization in whatever form it might take.

Like you said basically; the truth is bigger that we think it is, such is the meaning of life.

Take care, Toni!!

By: Junnie

Junnie — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:55:49 +0000

“What will others say?” “Look, someone’s looking at you” “Remember, people see you” “That’s not the norm”

Sooooooo? I’ve always been accustomed to being different – without asking nor creating attention – just different. I follow rules, I wear my uniform and I conform, I dont see myself not being in the norm when it comes to set of procedures. I remember when I was young and being with friends all afternoon til ‘sawa’ was the way everyone was doing it in our neighborhood, I’d be coming home at exactly 6pm for Angelus.

“Killjoy” or “tama na yan at baka lumagpas ka sa langit” was always what some of them chided.

Doing otherwise was not me. One time, after 2 decades, the same barkada had their own kids, and I was visiting, I heard my friend say to his boy, “hey get home, wash, and prepare for dinner, its already 6pm”.

“Daddy, hindi ka ba sasama sa Angelus?” the kid retorted coming in their house. My friend and I smiled.