A good day indeed

I had the chance to experience God's kindness and love through a good Samaritan today.

Her actions reminded me how God send His one and only beloved son to earth, to help the woeful soul, to awaken the doubtful ones, to empathize the longing soul and to die for us, the sinful ones, for our salvation, so that we will have eternal life in Christ.

Today is really a good day, which I will give all my thanks to God.

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, 

“You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Mark 10 : 21

As we converse daily,

more often than not, we always take the context of our daily conversation for granted. 

Research shows that words have emotional, physical and spiritual impact. The words we speak can lift an individual up or send him into a downward spiral. They can cause physical changes in one's body and change the spiritual atmosphere.

Words have the power to build bridges. They have the capacity to close the gap between one and other. They can also demolish bridges and make it impossible to heal a rift.

God spoke words in the spiritual realm to make things happen in the physical world. When God wants something to happen in the natural realm - He speaks. God spoke our physical world into existence.

Words, the basis of communication, are more powerful than we realize. They have the power to wound or to heal; discourage or encourage; tear down or build up an individual, just by words. 

Once again, today I am reminded that words could be hurtful. The logic behind this is because mankind feel words with their hearts, they will be hurt when they received words their heart would forbade them from saying to certain people.


As our days pass by, how many of us actually think about the words we said and the power they carry? 


“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” 

― Benjamin Franklin

clinging on to memories,

just because we are humans and we are emotionally wired that way.

Biologically, the red highlighted area is where our memory is being stored.

The hippocampus is a horse-shoe shaped area of the brain that plays an important role in consolidating information from short-term memory into long-term memory. It is part of the limbic system, a system associated with emotions and long-term memories. The hippocampus is involved in such complex processes as forming, organizing, and storing memories.

From time to time, if not most of our waking minute, we constantly find ourselves swimming through waves of memories. Good or bad, they can be easily triggered by familiar person, objects, scent, surroundings or sounds. 

A huge portion of our memories carry the objective of  increasing mankind's productiveness and efficacy. In other words, we remember(generate memory) for the sake of achieving a goal. It could be as simple as remembering shopping lists to memorizing solid facts. 

The irony of mankind, despite having such highly functional brain is that the brain tend to generate its own "fictitious" memories, in other words, there is a possibility that our brain "remembered" something that did not happen. This is mainly the reason why human memories are considered unreliable.

 

Memories, be it good or bad will always be an undefinable paradox. Sometimes they will come in handy. Yet most of the time we find ourselves in a constant battle with an unforeseen victory ahead, the battle between remembering and forgetting. Hence, we hold on to our memories even tighter, but without us realizing, losing them too.

Earth is populated

with people with all sorts of personalities.

You will undoubtedly encounter many different types of personalities, each with their own unique blend of nuances. But there are four basic types of personalities from which they are based, which is commonly referred to as A, B, C, and D. Although volumes have been written on such personality traits, here is a synopsis:


Type "A" Personality - Is a highly independent and driven personality, typically representing the leaders in business. They are blunt, competitive, no-nonsense types who like to get to the point. They are also strong entrepreneurial spirits (risk takers). As such, they embrace change and are always looking for practical solutions for solving problems.


Type "B" Personality - Represents highly extroverted people who love the spotlight. Because of this, they are very entertaining and possess strong charisma (everyone likes to be around them). Small wonder these people are sales and marketing types. They thrive on entertaining people and are easily hurt if they cannot sway someone (such as "bombing" on stage).

Type "C" Personality - The antithesis of Type "B"; they are introverted detailists as represented by such people as accountants, programmers, and engineers. They may have trouble communicating to other people, but are a whirlwind when it comes to crunching numbers or writing program code. They tend to be very cautious and reserved, and will not venture into something until after all the facts have been checked out.

Type "D" Personality - Is best characterized as those people who resist any form of change and prefer the tedium of routine, such as in clerical assignments. They are not adventurous, resist responsibility and prefer to be told what to do.

It is not uncommon to find people with a blend of personalities, particularly A-B and C-D. But these basic personality types explain why some people work well together and others do not. For example Type-A clashes with Type-D simply because one is more adventurous than the other, and Type-B clashes with Type-C as one exhibits an extroverted personality and the other is introverted. Conversely Type-A works well with Type-B, and Type-C works well with Type-D.

Upon reading this, some people will think that they are a blend of personalities. Well as for me, I am very much of Type A Personality. I like being organized, my schedule planned ahead and being on the right track. I do not like it when something surface out of the blue and interfere with my plans. Logic and practicality will definitely be the basis of many matters for me. Many a times, when it comes to serious work, people want to kill me and dump my dead body deep down the sea because I always suffocate them well, people will always give me the honour of being the one high and above because I am good in killing people when they don't get their work done somehow with a lot of effort and definitely alongside God's guidance, I drive people to positive outcomes.

It is certainly not easy to get along with a Type A, maybe that is why I am surrounded with plenty of Type Bs. These are the people whom will always remind me that everything will turn out fine and there will always be many ways in solving an issue while I am uptight and rigid. They are always the people whom allows me to spell "R E L A X, C A L M D O W N, H A V E F U N" whenever the huge tsunami waves of "S T R E S S" comes flooding me.

Having people walking in and out of your life is definitely part and parcel of well, life. Though we can be assured that since God is awesome in many ways, besides having a plan in life for each and every one of us, He knows who are the right people we should be with or keep for the rest of our lives and who are the people that we should murder keep a safe distance from.

So, what type of person you are after all?