Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
To some extent, there's sense is such line as "You are what you read..you are what you imbibe!.."
During my youthful years, reading comics as well as paperbacks about romance, detective stories, adventures, and suspense thrillers occupied some of my leisure time at home.
Being a home-bodied type, I also loved listening to melodramatic series via transistor radio. Television was not yet available in our domain in the farm in southern Mindanao at that time. This was in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
In my junior years in college, my interest shifted to reading more on success stories of people in the world of business and commerce where they made it from rags to riches, so to speak. But on top of my reading interests, the classical discipline I got out my 5-year enclosure in a religious seminary in Lipa City (1970-'73) & Tagaytay City (1973-'75), added sophisticated menu to what I already digested since youth.
After college and seminary life, when I was out on my own in the open secular world of "anything goes" working to make a living, I turned to and loved reading books dealing with success motivation, positive mental attitudes, getting rich quick, and the like. Really, I absorbed so much of the latter dosages that I learned to think "Big", day-dream, and wish for the stars.
By the time I got caught up, felt responsible and held accountable in a commitment which left me no choice but admit as destiny to carry on - Married Life, I was already an ambitious materialist.
Carried away with my vainglorious ambition, the more I got excited when I was already riding a "corporate high horse", at age 33, at the peak of a career ladder in the corporate business enterprise. Meantime, the legitimate and serious demands of marriage and family life were less and less attended. One time, my "Once-charming lady-turned-brooding" partner in life (forgive my negligence) asked, "AM I A MERE DECOR IN YOUR LIFE?"
Well, the twist and turn of events made great difference. It may sound paradoxical, but I eventually found a liberating reason to be grateful for the rocking socio-economic-political quake in the early 1980s - The declining years of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos'
regime.
Sifting though the socio-economic-political crisis was, my mind was quickened to see and realize WHO I AM, WHAT I LACK, WHAT I NEED first and foremost. Then, flashed glimpse of fresh opportunities and new perspective leading to an inward journey, search, discovery and providential recovery of the long lost SELF.
The first major breakthrough in life would then ensue - A New Life Path opened leading to what this blogger persistently uphold in his blogging business as "Cherished Liberty in a Sublime Paradigm".
Friend in the blogosphere, rising above the hardness of one's circumstance makes great difference! There's always a Breakthrough-For-Good ahead of a persistent living soul. Move on in Faith, Hope, and Love!
Call UP HIGH & Claim LIFE - LIFE IN ABUNDANCE!
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