A Girl’s Notebook :)

My sister Pauline and I went to Star Mall last week. When we were there, we saw a book shop called “Book Sale”. By its name, you would really have an idea that the books and magazines that they sell are like second hand or used already. Though, there are some brand new stuff being offered as well. Being a book lover myself, I told my sister that we drop by it. I went directly to the Children’s book. I love buying books for Antoinette. She owns a Grolier Encyclopedia and the 24-volume series is called “I Wonder Why?” Then, I got her an ABC and Counting 123 books. I realized that my little princess doesn’t own any fairy tale book yet.

Though, I had been collecting CDs of Disney classic Fairy Tale movies, I believe, she still deserved to have one. So, when we’re at Book Sale, I looked for a Fairy Tale book. I want a book about the classic princesses, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Ariel, Aurora and Snow White. I want its pages to be “hard bound” so that Nonet can go through the pages of it without me worrying about it being torn apart. As you see, Nonet is only 2 years old.

I found fairy tale books but it’s not the one I’m looking for. I mean, I’m not satisfied with it. Then my sister found this pink Fairy Tale book entitled Musical Magical Treasury Disney Princess. I fell in love with the book. It’s the one I’m looking for, not to mention that it only cost PhP 120.00

The book has all the Disney Princesses.

Here’s Ariel of The Little Mermaid.

This one is Aurora of Sleeping Beauty.

This is Belle From Beauty and the Beast.

Princess Snow White.

This is Cinderella.

Last but not the least, Princess Jasmine.

When I was younger, I had dreamt of being a princess. Oh how I love reading Princess stories. I know that every girl is a princess in her own ways. I used to be the princess of our family up until my two younger sisters came. Well, I believe that in my parents hearts we are all princesses.

Now, our family has a new princess. A princess that we love so much!

A princess reading a Disney Princesses Book

Even if I’m really sleepy and has bad colds, I couldn’t help myself from writing this article I have kept. This was printed in JFK of Manila Bulletin couple years ago. It was featured in “Diaries”, a regular sub-section of JFK and the author was Milagros Baldemor Perdiguerra. So many lessons in love can be found. The article is about having your life to move on after a painful goodbye.

In my life, I had once experienced this pain when Ney and I broke up about 9 years ago. The pain I had was unexplainable. The hurt was so deep that even mentioning his name then made me cry. I learned to move on through prayers and with the love of my family. Yet as the saying goes, if you’re meant to be, then you’re meant to be. And after 9 long years we’re back in each other’s arms.

Others may not be as lucky as I am. And so let me share this one, for those who are going through such pain right now. That even though, your heart are aching, life has to go on..

Two hearts met in a dance. That moment was magical. There was a sweet
song playing. There was harmony and soon, love in the air. They fell in love
and they started building castles in their dreams. They promised to be together
forever with all certainty. But, somewhere in the midst of the fun,
they got lost in the dance. Something went wrong that they can
never do anything. They were just drifting away, their fortress falling apart.
There were so many questions, but no one had an answer.

 The music stopped and then there was silence…

When I truly love someone, I give my best and let that person see the pureness of my intention. There are times when I love so much that I lose myself in my own emotions. But that person whom I learned to love made me cry and hurt me for the wrong reason. That someone must have loved me but he has not loved me enough to stand for what he truly felt.

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies, only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hands empty and our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be fulfilled. But love is only a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hands for we never find the strength to let it go when it decides to leave. We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it lasts and then freely open our arms when its time to say goodbye.

When we fall in love with someone, we don’t want that feeling to end for it is everything we are… everything that we wanted to be. We pray that love will stay and grow in our hearts. But if it doesn’t, then we should never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end when heartaches begin.

There is always a reason why we move on. If we have to say goodbye to the feelings, let us not wave our hands with a heavy heart for love will have to set it wings free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes of our hearts, we will hear that feeling resound silently forever. Then, we’ll know that it has never left us that we should be thankful and happy, not because we have lost love, but because, for once in our lives, that feeling lived in our hearts and made us happy.

The only way to forget is to accept and the only way to move on is to look ahead and let the footprints of the past be blown by the winds of time.

Only then can our hearts find a partner in the dance of life… hopefully, not to get lost again.

Hope I was able to help someone, somewhere by sharing this article, as it did to me