Seeking Answers to Life

I learned one vital lesson in life--never be seeking answers to life seriously and you'd see that serious answers just come to you without effort. No kidding (I'm trying to be serious here). The more I enjoy what comes to me, the deeper life insights I get. So I decided, seeking answers to life involves often staying on the lighter side of life.

In short, always finding something funny to laugh about. I remember being in really tight situations in life with my family and I and my wife would huddle together waiting for something funny to think about--which would often come from me. And our two young boys would laugh along. Then something would hit me--I'd find a new meaning in all of it. I'd become wiser. And I'd knew the funny idea came from God.

I've tried to be serious about life. If you'd see me in person you'd find me looking serious and formal most times. But don't let that facade fool you. I'm really a guy who loves to see something funny to laugh about. You see, I discovered that besides being fruitless and boring, taking life too seriously only added to the stress and anxiety that triggered chemical reactions in the body and which led to diseases. My face became used to  assuming a serious impression as a result, but somehow I can now manage to change all that in just a matter time. I can easily think up something funny to laugh about.

And it's become part of my seeking answers to life without meaning to. I seek but I'm not in a hurry for answers. I read lots of books in my quest, and try a lot of new things and talk to different folks, but I just listen--listening takes patience and forever. Only the wise listen, so says the Book of God. Only the wise can afford forever, and invest in forever. Fools are always in a hurry and they're always serious about everything, wanting nothing to talk about but "God" and posting nothing on their FB but bible quotes.

They're not really seekers--they're just exhibitionists proving that they're better and more spiritual, though they always insist that they're not. Seekers are like travelers that just enjoy the scenery they see around as they gradually progress in distance. They know that excessive seriousness does not shorten or lengthen the journey, but fun and a lighter side of life do seem to reduce travel time. More accurately, they amuse you so much that you forget about time.

I love seeking answers to life while enjoying sips of ice-cold fresh fruit drinks sweetened with wild honey. Or try the soya milk shake mixed with melon extracts and black pearls I discovered one afternoon quest in SM North. Or, alone in our dining room or at my desk or in our front porch, God and I talk a lot (and laugh or cry about) life. Sometimes we literally talk, sometimes we just connect mentally, or better we stare at nothing for hours and then suddenly break into laughter. Then something dawns on me and I see everything clearly. I suddenly become wiser like a serpent, and then he cautions me to take a balanced insight so I become innocent as a dove, too.

God gives you both extremes of an issue. Well, at least that's how he deals with me. I'm always given extreme insights into things and then he helps me synthesize that. Or, he allows me to take one of either extreme sides and explore on it and later miraculously end up with a balanced extremity without any effort. He's wonderful. And that's the whole point of seeking answers to life without meaning to.

Life always has questions to present you--profound or trivial. Just let them be asked. Wait. Then answers come as you enjoy the wait. That's how life is. And that's seeking answers to life with wisdom.

Is There Laugh After Dolphy?

Is there laugh after Dolphy? Definitely. And he wanted it that way. In an interview with Arnold Clavio of GMA 7, the ace comedian said he wanted to be remembered and talked about by people with smiles on their faces. Better if they'd LOL, I guess.

The actor-comedian, Rodolfo Vera Quizon, succumbed to multiple organ failure, among other things, at the Makati Med yesterday at around 8.30 pm, several days before his birthday, July 25. He was 83. He left behind 18 children from different partners. As I watched the news on  his demise, images of the teenage Dolphy in his earlier movies ran through my mind. He certainly made me laugh so much and I loved watching him when he was slender and young and very, very funny.

He'd been funny in his later movies, too, but they're nothing compared to his earlier ones. I remember him with Luis Gonzales when they tried to beat each other in a contest of who was worthy for the love of a pretty rustic girl. Dolphy was supposed to come from Spain assisted by his personal servant, Manaloto, who would whistle to the tune of a famous bull-fight music each time Dolphy would make an appearance.

I remember watching him as sidekick to famous leading men in the 50s and 60s, and I clamored more for him than for the leading men. There was this movie, "Kalabog en Bosyo," where Dolphy and Panchito were really hilarious that they made my stomach ache laughing, even becoming almost breathless. Dolphy was especially funny here. 

Is there laugh after Dolphy? Yup. They just have to play and replay his movies, especially the earlier ones. Oh, did you now that his first screen name was Dolay? It was taken from the name of a hardware store I think somewhere in Ascaraga.

Among my favorites then was when Dolphy was partnered with Chiquito, both comedians, where they played top secret agents out to bust a big syndicate. The fight action was superb, with some hints of Karate, and the comedy was tops. I don't remember the two being partnered again in a movie. They were somewhat pitted against each other in comedy in those days.

Accordingly, when asked who among the young comedians today he admired, Dolphy pointed to Michael V first before mentioning several others. Michael V has his flair for comedy in his own unique ways and appears to be the more intellectual among them, always coming up with something different. Is there laugh after Dolphy? With guys like Bitoy, Bossing Vic Sotto, Jose and Wally, and Willy Nepumuceno around, yeah  sure. 

Especially if they're inspired by Dolphy.

No doubt, there would not be another Dolphy. They would have to create themselves differently. Nobody likes a second rate, trying hard, copycat. And I do hope they run a Dolphy movie now and then, so there's no more question like is there laugh after Dolphy?

Yes, of course. Laugh goes on...

It's Been a Loooong...While!

It's been a long while since I lasted visited here. What--two years? Almost. I've been busy with my other blogs (there are about 2 dozens of them), especially my new blogs which you'll find on the sidebar. If you want to help me do my ministry and publish my books, just visit my blogs, read the contents, and explore everything there. Be like a detective like me, always asking questions and finding out the answers.

So much of my time is being taken by my office works but thank God I still can write blog articles. I've been working now as marketing and training consultant of a company selling purple corn products. I also do product presentations now and then to an audience of network marketers. So you see, I'm a networking speaker. And I also sometimes do art works and compose power point presentation. And they say I'm good. Well, suit themselves.

If I have any talent, it's all God's talent. I got nothing.

Anyway, It's good to be back here. And I hope to write at least 2 new articles a week and make this blog rank high with the search engines. Is that good? Course it is.

Blogging to me is first a pleasure and second an extra income generator. I love to blog because you get to publish right after you write. And it's published worldwide. It's lots better than writing and publishing hard-copy books (I have those, too). But don't get me wrong; I love writing and publishing hard-copy books, too.

However, with blogs you can just write as you please and publish--and your article is available at once for readers at large. I just write as I talk, so that often I write what comes to mind. Somehow they all end up with one theme and direction. Well, sometimes, admittedly, it turns out the other way, and the more I have fun. I like readers a bit confused. Fun if you do, fun if you don't.

Blogs and websites to me are like real estate. Get as many prime sites as you can, focus on some and tend the others now and then. The thing is, you got the address and title first before others did. Then build on them gradually. Don't be in too much hurry. They will get developed in time.