Day 359 ~ "Qi" & "Respect"

What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

What have I learned about myself this past year {blogging}..?  hmmmm... First off... I would like to make sure you know up front... I never had blogged before until I started this blog 349 days ago.  Secondly... I never intended on learning anything.  HAHA! LOL!  No but seriously... It wasn't my intention...   Check out what my intention(s) were/are here.

So here goes... What I Learned About Me... from A to Z

Ying Yang Bagua

"Q" is for...  Qi.  pronounced chee...  I {like I'm sure many of you ..wink, wink} have used Qi many times in Words with Friends ... 

If you do not know what WWF is... it's an addictive app on I-Phone or Facebook... it similar to scrabble and you play against friends.  There may be other methods of playing this game that I don't know of. 

I didn't know what Qi meant until I looked it up.. nor did I know that Qi and {chee} were one in the same.  hahaha...

Qi noun (che) or (chee);  the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health.

I have come to learn this past year that my Qi is a- okay!

"R" is for...  Respect.  ... It's like I've said it before.... I thought about it long and hard... and I want to talk about respect. or the lack thereof. 

I've seen children, adults, teens, tweens (what the heck is a tween anyways?)  ...  really?  when and who came up with this? {I looked it up... kids between 8 - 14}   [another day another subject...]

As I was saying... I have seen a lot of lack of respect out there in the world... lack of self-respect included.

Whatever happened to good ol' fashion respect?  One where a youngster gives his or her seat up for an elder?  Be it who it is.

or respect for your neighborhood, let alone your neighbor... or how about respect towards your spouse and your marriage, not to mention your children...  

Of course I know that respect is sometimes expected to be earned... however more times than not I believe that you should at least start out with a blanket respect or rather beginners respect that not only can grow with time, but can also deminish at a drop of a hat with merit or lack thereof.

So why don't we give everything and everyone the benefit of the doubt and treat others as we would like to be treated... and then possibly mutual respect will develop.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.~Bruce Lee

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
~Maya Angelou

Tomorrow...  What I Learned About Me... from A to Z ... the letter(s) "S" 

[here's to you finding your... ]

Peace...

6 days to go... {speechless...}

read about this count down in my "About my Blog" page

... for a, l & c.  you are my sunshine(s).

Images are courtesy of either google or Bing images.  Some images maybe labeled property of Carla Barilá Karam and of this blog- Taking Back My Life ~ Making it My Own.  US Copyright law apply  ©

Day 317 ~ "R" ... Why Not "Remember to Rejoice"?

"Luuuuccy... you got some splainin' to do...!"  

Funny...someone recently asked me if I laid in bed awake at night thinking about what word I was to come up with the next day.  At the moment, I chuckled and thought... well... actually...  I didn't think.. I just chuckled.  Anyways... moving right along...

Guess what? ...  Today... all I thought of, was the letter "R" ... all day long!  I kept bouncing back between trying to remember one word, and then two other new words...  first I came up with Rejoice and I thought, okay, this is good...  then I do not know what happened, but then I came up with Remember... hmmm... 

Okay... TIME OUT!  You know what the problem was ... when I was writing for "P", for a brief moment I came up with a great word.  I kind of had one of my ADD moments where my thoughts forked out, I realized it, and I got back on task.  Problem is, that I never jotted down my idea.

Well, ever since I had "that moment", I have not had that lovin' feeling.  I just have not recovered.  I just can't remember.  Great!  First the gray hair start coming in, and now my memory?  Just, great!  Then I thought, "let's see I have Rejoice and Remember... hmmmm... what can I do with this?  What can I come up with?

I must have had that last thought playing in my head over and over again ... until ... BAM!  Why not Remember to Rejoice?

Rejoice: transitive verb: to give joy to : gladden  intransitive verb: to feel joy or great delight.

Remember: transitive verb: to bring to mind or think of again  : to keep in mind for attention or consideration : to retain in the memory : to convey greetings from  intransitive verb: to exercise or have the power of memory : to have a recollection or remembrance

That was a mouthful.  Why...?  Bare with me a moment.  It's not that I didn't think you knew what these words meant, not at all.  I wanted to put their meanings out there.  Think about it.  Sounds simple, huh?  ... "to retain in the memory" ...  "to bring to mind" ... "to give joy to" ... "to feel joy" ... HA!  ...

Actually, if I just put it together, from what it states here... all I need to do is ... 

to bring to mind, to feel joy!

OR 

Remember to Rejoice!

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!  

~Philipians 4:4 

Blogging A to Z Challenge April 2012... What will "S" have for us on Monday?

48 days to go...  (OMG! Really?!)

... for a, l & c.  You are my sunshine(s).  

Images are courtesy of google or Bing images.  Some images maybe labeled property of Carla Barila Karam and of this blog, Taking Back My Life ~ Making It My Own.  U.S Copyright laws apply.  © 2012