"Revealing the truth is like lighting a match. It can either bring light or set your world on fire."

I Can't Make You Love Me

You'll know it when you feel for someone. You can't help who you fall in love with, you can't help what your heart will persuade you do and you can never prepare yourself well enough for the reciprocation that you receive.

Love will make you do things that you never thought was possible and love will also make you feel things that you never knew existed. You'll try to tell yourself that maybe in time, if you tried harder that things will work out. So you mask the uncertainty that you feel with a half smile on your already chipped heart. You open the flood gates, expecting nothing in return. You try to chase away the bad dreams with that vague but heartfelt stare that they give. You try to calm your heart's edged intuition as you close your eyes because their warmth overpowers walking away on a cold night.

Hope. That is all you can do. Hoping that they will join you on a path less traveled. Hoping that they will hold your hand and accompany you on that roller coaster of a life. Hoping that they will realize what is in front of them. Sure you may not have a fancy occupation, you may not have your whole life figured out, and may not be sure where this whole experience is going but there is one thing that you are sure of, the feeling that you have for them. You can only hope that in time that they will realize that you've given them all that is left in you.

You can only support them to where they want to go in life, with or without you. As they walk away, you just have to let them take your love as a souvenir of what could have been. As much as you apologize for being a mess because you've unleashed your most deepest inner thoughts, you look best when you speak from the heart. Pain is inevitable BUT suffering is optional. It's not a bad thing to be wanted but why yearn for someone that doesn't reciprocate that same feeling? It is a sign for you to fall back and to give up the fight.

People should not be reckless with other people's hearts and you should not put up with people who are reckless with yours. So as much as you'd risk the fall just to know how it feels to fly, just know that someday...someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.



.."I will give up this fight. i can't make you love me if you don't..you can't make your heart feel something it won't"...

Her: never knew that. lol. its funny how you say things after the fact.
Him: I just didnt really know what I was doing. I still dont really know now.

Her: same here but that is the beauty of life.we dont really know what we are doing, just following our hearts and intuition..with both guiding us exactly where we need to be.

I love the conversations that I have with the wonderful people in my life.

World Offering

Sometimes when times get hard, we look at ourselves and ask the question "why?" Why are we put into this life, in this position and at this given time. We ponder and think to ourselves, "what am I doing wrong?" when we don't get what we want, when we want it. In reality there is nothing wrong with us. Many of us have dreams, aspirations and goals whether it is short or long-term. However, life does not come easy and without the tribulations, there can be no triumphs.

Many times we don't recognize our potential because we are too busy being self critics. Looking at our faults and nit picking at our weaknesses, we slowly start becoming pessimists instead of optimists. We tend to forget that no one is entirely perfect and that we are blessed in our own individual ways. Everyone has a chance to be something great and share that greatness with the people around them. They say that laughter is contagious, well I've said that sharing love is infectious. People often don't know that it is the little things that can make a person feel special, ease a situation, leaving someone with an impression that will embedd into their memories. We all may have different missions in this lifetime but I know one thing is for sure, we were all meant to share what we embody...our ideas, our talents and our hearts.

I know that each and every one of us try to strive for the best in life because we all deserve the best that life has to offer. It is all entirely up to us on how we want to achieve our dreams because after all, we are in control of our own lives. We are constantly trying to search for the best because often times, we want to out do ourselves and we tend to think that there is better and bigger after each accomplishment. However, what if we thought of things in a different perspective. Instead of striving to get the best out of life, why don't we strive to give life the best out of us. There is the saying that we reap what we sow, but what about us thinking of it in retrospect to where we we teach other people how to reap as well, so that we can reap dreams of building a better tomorrow.

As corny as that may sound, all of us has something to give. Because in the end, there’s a lot more you can offer the world than the world can offer you.

Two things define your success in life.

1)The way you manage when you have nothing.

2)The way you behave when you have everything.

To The Main Ladies Of My Life

On this day, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for all that you've done for me and our families. I know that you have endured a lot and I just want you to know that I love you. I love you for the sacrifices, all those late nights, tireless mornings and nonstop hustling..I know that all of that has worn your hands and feet...but I'm appreciative that it has never worn your mind, heart or soul.

On this day, I honor you. I can only hope that I make you ladies proud by being all that I can be and by instilling the values and morals that you have taught me to my children.

My mommy, Imelda.

My paternal mom, Mama Maxi.

My maternal mom, Mama Monica.

..."I said mommy Imma love you till you don't hurt no more and when I'm older, you aint gotta work no more. And Imma get you that mansion that we couldn't afford. See you're, unbreakable, unmistakable....I appreciate what you allowed for me. I just want you to be proud of me."...

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

I know that many people have different opinions regarding the Osama Bin Laden death but the wise words of Martin Luther King ring true. We after all are ALL human. We all make mistakes and we are not in the position to judge anyone or the path that they have decided to walk in this life. We can only hope for peace for the world that we are presently living in. We only hope that people learn to forgive and for people like Osama Bin Laden...for their soul to find peace in the next life.

Love The Way You Lie

I love the way you lie.
like when you say that this will be the last time that you...
call me names that seep into my soul.
Push me up against the wall to keep me posted because this vicinty is suffocating.
Because baby, I love the way you lie.
So re-tell those memories of when we first met.
How you knew that I was something special, how I was different from the rest.
The memories of the first time you held my hand, the first time we kissed, the first time we danced...the first time you realized that you loved me.
Tell me those lies again baby because those memories seem so long ago.
I just love the way you lie.
Like when you told me how we were going to make our dreams come true, raise a family together, grow old together.
How you said that you will always be there to listen, how you said you will always take care of me, that you will always have my back.
Little did I know, you were the very one that would turn my words against me..only to hurt me, and only to stab me in the back.
So baby, hold me down with those empty promises because I love the way you lie.
Tell me about the places we'll go and the people we'll meet.
About the dreams that are now in the past, the plans that we got for the present and the plans that we want to accomplish in the future.
Threaten me about how if I left, no one will want me. How you are the best thing I ever had and how no one can put up with my antics.
Tell me the lies of blame baby because I'll take it all.
We'll turn this love into a cold hearted war.
Push and pull. Fire set a blaze.
Lie to me baby because you are good at it.
Tell me that this is all a phase that we will be stronger, that things will get better just as long as we are together.

So as you continue to make this all hurt, kiss heartbreak on these lips and feed me all these lies...
I will continue to search for happiness within this madness and eventually walk away to learn the well deserved truth.


..."Just gonna stand there and watch me burn but that's all right because I like the way it hurts. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry but that's all right because I love the way you lie."...