Cecille's Creativity

Being stiff is not always being rough. In life, it needs stiffness to run through everyone's system. How does it works? It goes this way...

There is the kind of category that I would emphasized to label the "stiffness" that I mean. It is in "mild", "moderate" and "high".

Mild. When a leader is not stiff and only possesses "mild" stiffness, it is so hard for him to give commands for everyone to follow. It is just that when he gives instructions, it is either the members will follow or only few will be able to deeply take his command. If he doesn't emphasize to stress out his point because of not well-motivated self-esteem, then fear is his to own. No one will ever follow. He will come like a shadow that no one visibly makes what he commands into an action of realities. He is just flacid.

Moderate. When a leader is "moderately" stiff, chances are, others will follow him but not definitely the whole clan will do. In stiffness, the kind of leader is not in a way of being authoritative or the kind of leader that is whole communist. There is no such thing as like that in leadership. Only if he sticks to his principles and his personal convection on things, then there is the so-called action in real sense. Moderates are those that in between chances of taken stiffness into wider perspective or being able to manifest signs of doubt on one's potential. It should be that Moderates should never decide to think twice, but rather to emphasize on leadership as a way to an edge. He has plans, but is doubtful.

High. They are achievers. They never take chances of missing the path of not being able to do their best all the time. They do command, but not to the extent that they are good at first and then turns speechless afterwards. They have full of words on leadership.The key word here is limitation, not being able to overlap the scope of one's stiffness. There should be balance on the self and the sides of the masses. Being able to actively listen and make people as the center of one's role dominantly produce a smooth kind of leadership. He humbles and perseveres to understand. There is no such thing as "judgmental", rather accepting criticisms in a positive manner. He leads in great command, but knows his limitations.

If you are going to choose among "mild", "moderate" and "high", which character do you belong? Me, I have found the person who is "high" in commands, but with good heart. Actually, I have enjoyed the kind of leadership she has shown to the class this afternoon and you know what, everyone follows.

Last Friday, my teacher in Related Learning Experience 20 discussed to us about Comfort Measure (Non-pharmacologic) or Traditional/Alternative Medicine and there is the part that she discusses about prayer, faith and spirituality prolong life of persons to live here on Earth.

Been struck about the statement, I recalled thinking about my grandmother who is already 93 years old now that indeed, this statement is a "fact".

My grandmother is so religious. Almost everyday, she goes to church to pray. She even goes with her group of friends. They call themselves, "Couples for Christ". They do conduct house-to-house prayer meetings, etc. Even though she can't walk fast, she still takes the steps to pray in the church and even go there everyday.

Every morning, she used to say her "Novena" prayer before she goes to church. She is a Roman Catholic just like me. Her religiosity keeps her the faith to stay alive even longer. I can see that to my grandmother. Her faith is immeasurable that she almost pray everyday. She is positive on things that no matter she is old, still she holds on to life in spite of her condition.

In prayer, there is faith. In faith, there is always that positive feeling of self-worth and hope that no matter what happens, everything is going to be fine. It is because of her prayers to God that my grandmother boost to happily live even though she is old right now.

I used to see her worry-free. She can afford to smile. She can even tell stories of her past which I find interesting. She can give us morals and even try to follow-up us regarding school.

The positive aura and mood of my grandmother lifts us that in spite how uncertainties trigger life, still there is a hope for us to move and stand living.

My grandmother's spirituality leads her to see life and deal with it with no grudges and pains. And I want to be like that especially when I am at my peak. Though, I am not that religious as her, I do pray on my own everyday, but I have learned that keeping the faith to Christ is always what makes a happy life defines to rule within. In prayer, fears, depressions, anxieties and even worries will be all washed out. What shines is the feeling of contentment, hope, happiness and perseverance that in spite how the world trembles to rattle in wrong situations and unexpected approaches, still the kind of deep faith in God maneuver to give us the determination to attack life light and with hope.

Attitudes vary from person to persons. The way I deal with people makes me treat them the way I want them to be treated, but being compulsive, I do not.

Due to the fact that being a leader takes much effort for me to be the best at all sorts of things. I want that best to bring to my group and to the individuals who do I encounter. Oftentimes, I do admit that bringing the best in a person or in any situation that involves the participation of the other people would make me label to them as being "perfectionist".

To be the best is not in a manner of excessive perfectionism. I have recognized me that my friends would label me as such because I am always making that "best" be in the top priority and to be able for us to attain the kind of best that I want in a group, probably, it intimidates them.

I do admit that I am compulsively demanding for the best. Other than the meaning of compulsive afar from the best, then, that is not what I am.

Being a leader always makes me able to think quick and instill the decision-making at the level of high. Others may find me too compulsive that in a way that I am in the point of telling them that the manner of doing it is like this, which, I do believe they are not in par of what I am suggesting them to do.

It is so hard to live in a world that being the best of me doing things and telling them is the reason for others to create their minds of me being compulsive. It just boils down to one reality that in this world, everything is not what it seems to be.

Discovering myself that I can do more than what I usually know is a kind of self-worth that formulates to define the real me. My mirror would always say that indeed I am useful. 

Before, I used to be shy, timid, passive and fearful in daily approaches of living. It seems like that my friend and my only best friend is myself and no one else. But that friend that I consider in myself is a shyful one. 

Time changed as I am also changed, from being shy to super active, right now. That is what I have discovered in myself. 

Before, I used to be so fearful that when situation calls for immediate action regarding showing one's talents and potential, I was like the most frightful person in the world. I don't do things the way others really do, with their guts on. 

It was then that I have realized that I don't really want to be impotent and stagnant of myself being passive all the time. I said to myself that I need to overcome my fears and start building and defining myself everyday. The zest of self-worth in me gradually forms. I have wonderful friends who would always encourage me not just to sit in the corner,but rather to do something about life, to get involved and be involved. 

I always be with them. I take the chance to discover myself in them who always encourage me that I need to bring out the best in me at all times. We present dance presentation in huge crowds. We sing live songs and put that music on while people are jamming with us. We take seriousness in all matters of school works and community activities. We involve ourselves and our lives revolve around the wider scope of our wants. 

Now, reflecting to go back, I am so thankful that my friends saved me from being timid to active. My friends encourage me that there is always ways and quitting is not a fad. My friends taps me all the time that there is no room for sadness. Life is wonderfully crafted and mixed. 

What I do always remember is that, "I don't care what the people might say or will say, life must go on. It is my thing that matter most." With that, I was able to find and define myself.

From the discussion that my Instructor in Maternal and Child Care taught us with the topic of the Male and Female Reproductive System yesterday, there is one realization that I have learned - How cells, sperm and ova, when they met and fertilized turn out to be a one single human cell that ignites the beginning of the story of life. This makes me realized that life is indeed so wonderfully planned by God.

If I am to go through basing the root existence of the presence of sperm and ova, and if I am to go deeper on my findings on where they are really coming from, it all boils me up to the point that God is so amazing in His creation because such sperm and ova as they unite and fertilized turns life.

How majestic is God's power is that in many and any ways, He finds all things at its proper planning and place.

Every man exists on his time. The moment sperm and ova are fertilized in the mother's womb and life forms for this fetus to fully develop inside the mother, then, that fetus exists in his time. It would not be yesterday nor tomorrow, but today, at this very moment.

The elements present in the sperm and ova exist when we base it scientifically in the sustainable forces of the hormones and the blood vessels together with the fluid present and there is the factor of preservation in order not to trigger the developing human cell into a fetus. All these elements that compose a fetus comes in the power of God. There is that Being who makes everything in the process of the existence and developing of the fetus that would cater to explain the power that God has bestowed for each and everyone of us.

Life is so mysterious, but out from life's "mysteriousity", I know everything is in God and only God knows everything. We can not fathom it.

Frankly, I am so excited to visit the community and have activities for them. I would like to take part in helping them soon.

Community works are indeed exiting. It has been a long time now that I wasn't able to reach out in the community because of school. I am sure that once I go there, I would be able to understand more about life and their living. Then, it would always let be reminded that being with people are the best and important things in life.

It is a nourishing experience that my numbers of friends will be stretched this time. I will then be able to get closer with the different kinds of lifestyle people do have in the community. That is what I love to discover.

I love to have a duty in the community and I am excited of it!