Life is Like Weather

Good day to everyone. I just want to share with you something, and I hope you will like it.

Life is like weather, because life is always changing its status, sometimes, If we have a problem we think that it is a storm to our life. Like weather it’s always changing because we have two kinds of weather sunny and rainy, in the same manner in our life sometimes we experience sunny times or our succeeding days, and we experience cloudy days when we loose a game, or maybe loose someone we really love. It’s been a cloudy day for us because that is what we called dark moments in our life, it serve as a storm that comes to our life. Whatever moments that happens to our life that sometimes is happy and sometimes is sad, we compare it to our weather because weather is like a life that always changeable, but there’s always a time that we will see the sunny days or the succeeding days each time we faced our rainy days or sad moments that comes to our life.

The Three of Life

You have eaten coconuts but have you seen coconut trees?

Coconut trees grow in the lowlands and on mountainsides. There are planted in towns by the roadside as decoration. They grow up to thirty meters high or more. They start bearing fruits when they are about seven years old. They grow and live until they are about a hundred years or more.

The coconut is often called “the tree of life” because it is very useful. The stem may be used for building materials such as house posts. The roots may be used as medicine, the leaves as house roofs or walls, the midrib of the leaves as brooms or baskets. The husks can be made into doormats and the shell into buttons.

The inside shell is the coconut meat. It contains pure water which is good to drink. From its meat you can get milk for ginatan.

Dried coconut meat is called copra. Copra can be sold to other countries. Manufacturers can get oil from copra which is needed for making soap, pomade and medicine.

These are some of the most common uses of coconuts. Do you see now why the tree is called “the tree of life?”

Healthy Body

Eating healthy foods, you need to eat food rich in calcium, proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins. Eating healthy foods especially when you are still growing is important because it makes you stronger. Starving your body of important nutrients causes your bones to stop growing. It can also make you feel bad!

Drink your milk. Eating and drinking food rich in calcium, a substance found in dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt, is an excellent way to keep your bones and teeth strong and healthy. Bone matter is partly made up of calcium. So calcium-rich foods help the body improve your bones and encourage bone growth. That means that chocolate milk is actually good for your bones. (Just brush your teeth after drinking to get rid of any sugar build-up!) Research has shown that having healthy bones as kids play a big role in preventing bones diseases, life osteoporosis.

Have a sound sleep. Sleep helps the body and brain develop and grow. You can do better when you get enough good sleep. Kids like you need 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night.

A Romance With Books -1

Whenever I pass by a bookstore, I recall the days when I was struggling to collect a decent library. That was long ago, when five pesos could buy you a brand new, hardbound copy of your favorite book. So when I was in college, I often dreamed of a house with bookshelves reaching from floor to ceiling, with all the books printed with my ex libries. Being poor and subsisting academically only on scholarship, the dream had a long way reaching reality. By the time I got my degree, I had a few pocketbooks, though. I was penniless and now unemployed. I sought the help of our dean. I quite humbly (for I had in the past caused him trouble), that I needed a teaching job soon or I would perish in the unsafe world. I was hoping a position in the faculty of my own college. He nodded his white haired head and told me to come back in a week’s time. When I went back to him on the appointed day, he gave me a letter of recommendation to a far university. I thanked him but refused the letter and left at once, hardly containing my irritation. I suspected he wanted to exile me to that violent no-man’s island as self-punishment for all the grief I had caused him.

A few days later I bumped into a former classmate who was then a teacher at the near university where I should supposed to teach. He told me stories of his nice life in that mountain city that made me mouth water. She said I could join of it if I liked; all I had to do was send an application to the dean and he would check for me. I did and he did. Out of complete ignorance, I miscalculated my journey’s time and arrived at the bus station in the evening. My teeth chattered in the cold. I could not afford a hotel room. The only way is to stay in a station. I noticed two clerks in the dispatcher’s office engaged in a game of chess. To pass away my hunger, I went in and silently watched them. It was a nearing midnight when they finished. I went to lie down on a bench. I hardly slept that night. I noticed only one other fellow there who could not afford a hotel room. I felt safe in that huge corner whose embrace was the first hospitable welcome I had in that city.

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