Pointless Conflicts

Visualize this...

You're arguing with a person after a certain issue. You're defending yourself, you're presenting him your side of the story, but he wouldn't listen since he thinks he's always right...

Would you explain further until he believes you? If so, then why? Why waste precious time on someone who obviously doesn't respect your opinion?

Personally, I've been in these situations... I'm young, so you can assume that it's not something so big. By nature, I always want people to understand my part, respect my part, and it doesn't matter if I have to force it or not; they should listen to me, because people are free to speak their minds. Wanting them to listen is fine, yes... But forcing them to believe is probably asking too much from the situation.

Nonetheless, it was what I always wanted... I'm good at looking at anyone's point of view and understanding them, but I was asking too much for wanting people to do the same for me. I've come to realize how pointless and time consuming it was to prolong such issue just to convince people that I'm right on some parts too. Thus, I've learned that the best way to walk away is to, of course, listen first then say anything you have to say and then just forget about what happened. It matters not how they will react, you've spoken... It matters not how many believes, you're done. 

MOVE ON. There's more to life we can enjoy rather than prolonging our agony in these pointless situations. So what if you were wrong? At least you got yourself a new lesson learned. At least, even though most people took the opposing side, you have expressed your side of the story... For all you know, maybe many of them will come to appreciate your side someday, once they give it further thoughts.

Sure, people might judge you, but everyone judges everyone, both consciously and subconsciously... Don't let it bother your pace. Life is too short for such worries; Life is too short for pointless conflicts, time flies fast and any moment you spare for useless things that would gain you nothing but bragging rights is moment wasted which could've been spared for much more important and life-changing encounters.

Likewise, Life goes on, so go on, caring less of what others think... as long as you're not not hurting anyone, then just keep on going. So what if they judge you? Don't mind them... By showing that you're not bothered, who knows... maybe they'll get tired of trying to drag you down. So stay positive and resist pointless conflicts. :)

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Quite a short and quickly done post about a general topic. I haven't written an essay for years and haven't been thinking about matters deeply for a while, so I'm a little rusty at it again, sorry. But likewise, the eyes of a sparrow are small. If focused on one part alone, other details remains unnoticed. You're free to tell me what I missed, I'll humbly accept or consider them, if done constructively.

Thank you for reading. :)

Blindly Pointing Fingers

"Why can't Philippines be progressive?"

If some one asks you that, what would you say? 

Normally, many would say that it's because of the government, the uncaring politicians, the unfairness of officials and the corruption of people with power and authority, right?

I hear and read that everytime such question is asked. This belief is too mainstream that you would seem outdated if you don't feel the same... But I just have to disagree... I won't deny the fact that many officials are like this, but are they the ONLY reason why?

Floods occur, blame the Government for not fixing your area... You're living a tough life, blame the Government for being rich... Philippines is a third world country, blame the Government because they are corrupted... That's how common minds work... But have you ever thought of the OTHER reasons?

Before you point your finger on anyone else, look at yourself first... Why is there flood? Because irresponsible human beings keep on throwing their garbage all around like there's no tomorrow... Why are you living a tough life? Because it's the life you chose and you refuse to move on from it. It frustrates you, but you're not putting enough effort to end it... Other than it being filled with corrupted officials, Why is Philippines a third world country? Because you did nothing to help it progress... You were busy pointing fingers, telling everyone who is to blame that you forgot to point at yourself. What have you done for your country? 

Many didn't even bother to do something, they all think of themselves only... Nationalism is dead in the Philippines but there are few who are struggling to revive it... yet many others don't even bother. If one desires change, it must begin within himself first, am I wrong? Now so many are ranting as to how Philippines is such a bad country but I tell you, you have no rights to say that because you didn't even try. You gave up too easily.

I know I have no right to judge a person... But no one restrains me from judging the situation. Thus, I shall express my belief... 

The Philippines is not progressive because in there in the government lies traitors to the vision of our president for this country. Not all of them, but many are... 

The Philippines is not progressive because most of the people there only know how to complain but don't know how to act. They keep on blindly pointing fingers, blaming others before they realize how undisciplined and irresponsible they've become...

The Philippines will never reach progress unless the blinded people and those traitors in the administration change themselves for the better...

The Philippines will never reach progress if they let the poison of corruption take over their minds.

Oops, I think I was a little harsh there... But if you think I'm wrong about you being undisciplined and irresponsible... if you think I'm wrong for for saying that you are traitors... Then please, I beg you to prove it... Because if you're not like that, Philippines needs you and would be very proud and honored to have someone like you! No one would probably tell this to you, but Philippines would really be better off if all people are like you, unaffected by the poison of corruption... :)

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Do you agree or disagree?

The eyes of a sparrow are small... If focused to one part alone, other details can barely be seen... You're free to tell me what I missed... I'll humbly accept or consider them, when done constructively... :P

Thank you for reading! ^_^

The Night Sparrow, Moon...

Hi there, folks... Welcome to my blog!

The Night Sparrow... When you hear it or read it, what comes in mind? It's not really one of those phrases which explicitly shows its purpose, but it's not something so deep either. But before I explain what or who the "Night Sparrow" is, I would like to talk about the kind of blog I'd be doing here.

From the tagline, "Perspective of Life through a Sparrow's eyes", it can already be implied that I'd be talking about different views of life and certain situations here... But other than talking about experiences, I would also want to share with you the Philosophies and opinions I believe in. Those aside, the primary purpose of this blog is to react on situations, happenings, probably even economy. As much as possible, I would be unbiased, since negative reactions about anything explicitly bad but actually implicitly filled with values is so mainstream. In other words, I will write in bird's eye perspective, try to point out values out of a bad happening, or the pros and cons of both parties, or just simply peacefully post something that doesn't involve stress. ;)

Now back to the title... After that long narration of mine about the blog, you now probably have an idea as to why "Night Sparrow", huh? :) Well, I'll explain it anyway...

It's actually very simple... But I'll tell part of the whole story... Recently, I've been growing tired of people around, complaining endlessly about hating this and that, the government this, economy that, no progress, corruption. These people keep on blaming and pointing fingers at each other, and I've had enough of this childishness... Putting into consideration what my friend said, I started this blog... I wanted this blog to point out what the people couldn't see... I'm not trying to brag that I know everything.. I just want to inform them of what they're missing.. :) I want this blog to see things in bird's eye view, where in simple conflicts which somehow turns big, is actually never a big deal at all.

And so there goes our first cue... "Bird's eye view", simply saying I need a certain bird to represent this phrase... And I chose Sparrow for its certain qualities...

In the country I live in, in Philippines, sparrows or "Eurasian Tree Sparrows", are very common birds. We call them "Maya" here. They are lots of them here. In the morning, I would look out the window and see flocks of them standing on electric wires. They are very social creatures, even to humans. About their kind and their breed, since there are so many of them, they are one of the least concerned birds to protect.

The Sparrow is just like me for such reasons. I'm just another commoner who happens to LOVE writing "kilometer-posts". I socialize with people, I have many friends and I mingle with them. I may or may not be someone who concerns you, in fact you probably don't even know me. Who am I, for you? Just another writer among millions of them. I may be one of the person who concerns you the least, but that won't stop me from writing or voicing on my views, right? Even little sparrows know how to chirp... :)


There you have it! I'm Moon, the Night Sparrow... Why "night"? Because I write the good articles only at night and am only available at night... :)

I'll do my best to persuade you to try and take a look at things from the bird's eye view... Do enjoy yourself in my blog later when I finally decide to start posting regularly. Thanks! :)

Good night to all! :)



--Sparrow <3