“YOU complete me.” That’s Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) revealing his innermost thoughts to Dorothy (Renee Zellweger).
There are people who feel incomplete when they’re not married, and once they’re married, will continue to feel incomplete when they don’t have children. They’ll commit mistakes while looking for that completeness. It will then be difficult to convince them that they’re fine as they are since that sense of wholeness should come from within and not from the outside.
Peer pressure is an acceptable excuse for the young ones: to copy what everyone else is doing. But for the young once, if peer pressure still exists for them, they should go back to high school to relearn what that means.
Keeping up with the Joneses is the worst way to live. Because the Joneses will always have more. More food on the table, more cars in the garage, more mansions all over the world. And if you see that as competition, it will never end. But some people still buy fake luxury bags and fake luxury watches, hoping the razzle and dazzle would make their Facebook friends drool with envy.
These razzlers and dazzlers are unaware that billionaires never flaunt their possessions. It’s Fortune magazine that reveals the names of the world’s billionaires every year, could be the reason why there’s no need for them to flaunt.
I don’t get the idea behind owning anything fake. You better buy the original bag you can afford. It could be P500 or P5,000, the important thing is it’s original and not fake. If you’re trying to impress Jinkee Pacquiao with that fake Hermes, good luck na lang.
The truly rich and not necessarily famous—they’d rather stay unknown—can already guess where you’re from by the way you move, behave, and talk, and the fake Hermes will only add more décor to that image.
Total acceptance is the key to contentment but it takes time to achieve that level of acceptance. Try prayers, meditation, and living with nature. I’m tempted to suggest travel but that requires money. Still, Bohol, Palawan, and Batanes could be the places where the Pinoy may find some peace. Or dolphins, like what happened to us in Bohol. That was kind of ho-hum for me, though, after seeing all those dolphins on our way to and from Camiguin way back in the ‘90s when that island was our frequent weekend destination.
Lowering expectations is another way to total acceptance, even if it’s for the food at a resto or café, which is now in every corner of Cagayan de Oro, thus, inspiring the Cagayanon to eat out. And there are times when their food is not yummy. Feel free to give unsolicited advice in the most polite way although another solution to that is to keep quiet, pay the bill, and never return. No one is forcing you to eat there, anyway. A friend of mine was that kind of customer. She did complain about the main course but only to me, by whispering. And she still savored the dessert and coffee which were yummy. Lunch at a café is complete only when there’s dessert and coffee.
