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I suppose it’s normal for anyone who loves books as much as I do to feel animosity for anything that exhibits bad grammar or, for that matter, just general unattractive misuse of the English language. I know I did. I remember getting into fights with my friends just because I pointed out their grammatical mistakes a bit too harshly. I used to do it with an intention to condescend, as if saying bad English is a symptom of a greater intellectual malaise. It felt good too. I was like a genius pointing out their excess of commas and sentence splicing, something of a redeeming factor when one considered my general mediocrity. My friends hated me for it, and, to an extent, I hated that they hated me for it—but it made me feel good, it made me feel superior; that is something we all want, and I was entertaining the delusion that I had it.
I ceased to be a child, however, and eventually—messily—I grew up. Meeting different people and going through different experiences taught me that human beings have more than just linguistic and intellectual dimensions, and these two do not even necessarily correspond to one another. I’ve met people who cannot speak proper English admittedly, but know a vast number of things to make up for it. I’ve had brilliant professors in college who stumble in their grammar so much that I can count the errors—and a couple who stumbled so much more that I would frequently lose track. I’ve met people who can write poetry in Filipino like you wouldn’t believe, but have trouble making their subjects and verbs agree.
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AprA daughter’s 10 commandments for separated parents
These are the things your kids wish they could tell you
MY PARENTS SPLIT UP when I was 12. Like many kids who come from broken homes, I went through the stress of shared custody, being forced to listen to how horrible my father was and shopping trips that they thought would make up for everything. In a lot of ways, I was still lucky. I have friends who actually had to sit in court to watch their parents battle it out. I have friends who were asked to choose between their parents. We didn’t like what was happening but back then, we never spoke up. We didn’t think we had the right—we were just kids. Now that we’ve grown up, we realize that our lives as kids with separated parents could have been easier had our parents followed the rules listed below. It’s too late for us but it’s not too late for this new generation of kids with separated parents.
Newly separated? Read on. These are the things your kids want to tell you.
1. Talk to us. Sure, separation is a decision made by mom and dad but you’re not the only ones whose lives are going to be affected. We deserve to know what’s going on. And don’t try to convince yourself we don’t know something’s wrong. We may be young but we’re not stupid. We need your reassurance.
2. Never speak ill about our other parent in front of us. If you feel the need to vent, talk to your friends, talk to grandma—and away from our earshot. We deserve to be given the chance to have a positive relationship with both our parents. Please do not brainwash us. Please do not confuse us. Do not trap us in your marital problems.
3. We are not tools for revenge. Do not keep us from one parent to get back at them for their shortcomings. You aren’t just hurting them, you’re hurting us. Never make us choose between the two of you. Unless it is deemed legally or morally harmful for us, we believe we deserve to grow up knowing both our mom and dad.
4. In the same manner—custody fights? Not fun. As much as possible, keep your children together. We can’t be divided like the rest of your assets. We need our siblings for strength. There is comfort in numbers.
5. Keep us disciplined. Feeling guilty about the separation is no reason to be more lax with us. Don’t let us go crazy. Don’t let us run wild. Remind us that coming from a broken home isn’t an excuse to mess up the rest of our lives. We will be thankful for this in the future.
6. Material things won’t take our pain away. You can’t win us over with money. Stop shopping your guilt away. Toys and clothes are cool but what we really need is time with you and the security of knowing that things will be all right.
7. Do everything in your power to make our lives as stable as possible. Yes, we now have two homes. No, moving from one place to another is not really fun. But you can make things as comfortable for us as possible. Don’t drown in your own misery and forget that you’re supposed to be taking care of us. You’re not the only one who’s miserable. Remember who the parent is in this relationship.
8. Don’t make us feel guilty for having fun with mom or dad. You’re not our only parent.
9. We are your children, not your spies. Stop asking us about dad’s new place, mom’s date, what dad was doing, what mom was wearing, every little thing we did. Don’t use us to send messages to our other parent, too. We were there to spend time with them, not be your detective. If you care that much, maybe you shouldn’t be separated.
10. Please stop fighting in front of us. Didn’t you separate to end all the drama?
By Martha Samson
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AprThe Story of the Pencil - Paulo Coelho
A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter , at one point he asked:
‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done or is it a story about me?’
His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
‘I am writing about you actually, but more important than the words is the pencil am using. I hope you’ll be like this pencil when you grow up’.
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil . It did not seem very special.
‘But its just like any other pencil that I’ve ever seen!’
That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which , if you manage to hang on to them , will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.
‘First quality: You are capable of great things,but you must never forget that there’s a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand ‘GOD’ and he always guides us according to his will.
Second Quality: Now and then, i’ve to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little but afterwards , he’s much sharper. So you too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they’ll make you a better person.
Third Quality: The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did, is not necessarily a bad thing; It helps to keep us on the road to justice.
Fourth quality: What really matters for the pencil is not its wooden exterior but its graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.
Finally, the pencils fifth quality: It always leave a mark. In just the same way, you should know that every thing you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action. -
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Inday: How dare you ignorant road occupant, moving with such acceleration that caused elastic collision between my porcelain beauty and your grubby appearance of skin!
Bading: Bombalesh kang muchacha ka! Kenshulares mo makemer ang skin kong beauticion. Never metch matorbokels ang feslak ketch kung ayaw metch makonrak kita. Hala! Chupi!
Inday: (Nosebleed)
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