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My Life Plans As of Right Now

I read a book called Wealth within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo by Francisco J. Colayco. The book mentions a study on people who wrote down their financial plans and those who didn’t. The researchers checked in on these people after 20 years and discovered that the ones who had written plans generated more income.

If this can work with financial plans, then maybe it will work for an entire life plan.

Some of these things have already happened to me, but I still wanted to include them in this post to remind myself that this is the kind of life that I want to maintain:

1. Get a job that I love

I want to be excited to go to work. More and more people are telling me that everybody hates their jobs, so I better suck it up and pick the least dreadful one. I know there is no perfect job, but there is a job that’s perfect for me. Here’s how I would define a perfect job:

Creative and Intellectual

I want a job that satisfies both my creative side and intellectual side. Not that I’m saying that creative is not intellectual and vise versa because of course they crossover. Still, there are some distinctions.

One side of me is an artist. She’s the one who writes essays, stories, poems, songs. She sings, draws, creates crafts, and cooks. She has fallen in love with movies, tv shows, novels, memoirs, other non-fiction books, TED videos, and awesome articles on the net.

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What was the craziest childhood game that you invented? Mine was Taguan Mo Si Errol. Actually, I don’t remember if I was the one who came up with it, but someone did. This game was a new take on hide and seek, but instead of having kids hide while one person tried to discover their hiding places, this was a targeted attempt to hide from my cousin Errol.

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My cousins and I were in a car being driven by Tito Ariel from Batangas to Manila. I don’t know what inspired us crazy kids to do it, but we started opening our window and yelling at passersby, May butas ang puwet mo!

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Reading about an unknown person’s childhood may make some individuals think “I don’t care about your life, why should I read you?” This was the predicament that Mahdur Jaffrey had to face. When I finished her book Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India, I realized that Jaffrey wasn’t able to write a memoir—she was able to paint a world. I didn’t feel like I was reading a narration of events. I felt like a world was unfolding right before my eyes. The gastronomic and vivid narration elevated her ordinary life and transformed that life into a masterpiece filled with incredible sensations. As I read her description of Indian food, my mouth tingled in anticipation for the next ingedient, my appetite stimulated by each descriptive word.

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Sometimes we take some things for granted just because they are always there.

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