Love,Life, & Thoughts

I'm a woman of passion, great love and respect for humanity. I believe I am kind, I make good judgement about my self and the way I deal with life, I am independent, tough, well-bred and educated. I believe I am a leader of good influence, I believe in great conversation, I love speaking out my mind,
They said I work too often much but I love what I do, I give my all to what I believe is life, be it in my career or in love. I value people, people's ideas, interests, choices, and simple acts of respect matter a lot to me. I am a compulsive shopper for very few selected addictions, such as books and chocolates and coffee. Someday, I'm gonna have a library in my crammed apartment. I do always want to have a lot of chocolates in my fridge, I don't get much time to eat them though, I want to purchase all coffees of different historical legends someday. Well, that's all, so far, about me. I can go on and on, but this page might not accommodate all of my thoughts.
Here's an outline of some beautiful little bits of me:
* a passionate teacher
* a wisdom seeker
* i love to talk about love, life and laughter
* i believe in destiny
* i believe that everything happens for a reason
* i believe in forgiveness
* i am a devotee for peace
* i am a woman of worth
* i cry when i'm sad
* i laugh when i'm happy
* i'm real
* i'm one hell of a woman
* i believe in love
* i believe that blessings come with a price
* i believe that success needs passion and determination
* and i believe that success happens when opportunity meets preparation.
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We don’t have to be always certain, we only need to know what makes us happy.

We don’t need to worry so much, we only need to know that being wrong doesn’t always mean being bad.

We don’t need to let go when the person can still make us smile more often than not.

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Would You Love Me If Im Not Beautiful?
I wonder. I’ve been honestly thinking about this eversince. What if I didn’t look cute and pretty the first time you saw me, do you think you would even bother to look back and ask for my name? Would you think about me the night after? Would you ever bother to ask for my number? What if I was fat? Or if I looked poor? Would you waste your time asking for a date with me? Hmmmm…..
Im asking about these questions now because I thought someone like you might be honest enough to give me a clue. What if? Would you?
Anyway, Im just thinking how amazing love, attraction, intimacy, romance and datings are. Yeah, they certainly give you such feeling you can’t actually manipulate yourself to feel so. It involves timing, and even perfect light angles, and most of all, the “moment” is so vital. You feel that rush within, that tingling sensation you feel when you see the person across the room or next to you…there’s some kind of magnet. That’s almost ridiculous but always so lovely for me!
Yet, how long is it gonna sustain me, my hopes and my desires? Why won’t it last longer or even forever? Can two people atleast stay in that “pre-inlove” sensation forever? Yes, of course the answer is NO. That’s why I got to thinking also why even the most perfect couple break up after 4 years or even 6 years, because unconsciously one of the other is wishing for that sensation to light up again, to burn the moment again, to ignite that passionate romance again.
Complicated isn’t it? I feel the same way. Yet anyway. Would you even love me if Im not this way?
I need love, but not your kind of love. I want a beautiful love, not your beautiful face nor your beautiful money and not even my beautiful self on your beautiful car.
We all need love, but we often mistake love for superficial desires.

Would You Love Me If Im Not Beautiful?

I wonder. I’ve been honestly thinking about this eversince. What if I didn’t look cute and pretty the first time you saw me, do you think you would even bother to look back and ask for my name? Would you think about me the night after? Would you ever bother to ask for my number? What if I was fat? Or if I looked poor? Would you waste your time asking for a date with me? Hmmmm…..

Im asking about these questions now because I thought someone like you might be honest enough to give me a clue. What if? Would you?

Anyway, Im just thinking how amazing love, attraction, intimacy, romance and datings are. Yeah, they certainly give you such feeling you can’t actually manipulate yourself to feel so. It involves timing, and even perfect light angles, and most of all, the “moment” is so vital. You feel that rush within, that tingling sensation you feel when you see the person across the room or next to you…there’s some kind of magnet. That’s almost ridiculous but always so lovely for me!

Yet, how long is it gonna sustain me, my hopes and my desires? Why won’t it last longer or even forever? Can two people atleast stay in that “pre-inlove” sensation forever? Yes, of course the answer is NO. That’s why I got to thinking also why even the most perfect couple break up after 4 years or even 6 years, because unconsciously one of the other is wishing for that sensation to light up again, to burn the moment again, to ignite that passionate romance again.

Complicated isn’t it? I feel the same way. Yet anyway. Would you even love me if Im not this way?

I need love, but not your kind of love. I want a beautiful love, not your beautiful face nor your beautiful money and not even my beautiful self on your beautiful car.

We all need love, but we often mistake love for superficial desires.

I took my brokenheart to a coffee-date.

My days have been so busy lately and it’s like I have been working for so long in a day, it’s exhausting me somehow although I know how much I really love this job. I’m not sure how my life has been going on lately, I mean despite being busy, I am not sure if I’m still living the kind of life atleast a normal 25 year old would have. I have been thinking too much about so many things, planning about tons of events, deciding over so many projects and have been adapting to a lot of changes in the company as well. Somehow my life has been revolving to work and to “to do’s” only. In addition to that, I have been feeling so melancholy as well, and I’m sure it’s not just about the fickle weather recently. Like it’s really raining so hard this morning when I woke up, the usual bright morning at 6am looks darker and gloomy than what I expected. Suddenly I found myself digging my closet for no particular purpose at all. Since I woke up so early for work…and my coffeemaker has just been turned on, I found something unconsciously entertaining to do.

This is what I’ve found….

 

 It definitely smells nostalgia. I was not supposed to open it since I know it’s been buried down there in my untouched closet for like so many years.

The memories came rushing in though. Everything about the person, the moment, the feeling and the words…the words filled with promises, warm and so sweet promises. It’s funny how everything about that past surfaced so vivid in my memory now. Even the smell of the moment seems to exist even now, in here…in this room. That smell, that smell I always loved. It’s not only the perfume though, but it’s so savory like a mixture of everything about the scent and the smell of him and the moment and everything. I must stop this now. This is not doing any good to me. Yet, my hands just keep picking up all those photos, letters, our scrapbook, that very first stalk of red rose I got when I was 16, it still looks so real now…

Everything in here and even these hands bring me back to that moment…that moment I was so young and gullible and sweet and…fragile. Then I remembered the pain, it was so painful, I can feel my heart breaking again right now. Why that has to be so painful? I thought this heart had healed? Yeah…it was all in the past now, and nothing remains but memories, bittersweet memories.

I have this keepsake with me, buried underneath… not so I can always dig them again when I’m lonely, not so I can go back to you and to our memory, not because I have not let go…I keep this because this reminds me of my pains, and my struggles, my lessons. This is a constant reminder that I have survived a broken heart, and that I am stronger now, I am different now, I have been better than that yesterday. It’s a reminder that I’m way much tougher and wiser now especially when I look at that girl sitting beside you…inside that box. It seems not so me anymore, she was so much sweeter, but I am so much lovelier now…because I am stronger.

This is just one of those days I find comfort into sinking myself back to that moment I have loved…and lost…and lived again.

 

Now, let’s drink coffee…and live another day.

I recently have this thing about Korean Dramas lately. Although I don’t think it’s strange of me since I always have a heart for  Romance and Love and anything that relates to uber drama, love tragedy, sufferings, heartaches…and happy endings. It’s just that I was not at all interested to anything “Korean” before, I mean no offense but it didn’t interest me maybe because I had a wrong encounter with one not so long ago when I started to think true love could possibly exist at 16. And since today, I had my heart set into talking about this new-found passion, I will talk more about the history of such tragic puppy love encounter I had had on my next blog some time.
Going back to what I said, Korean Drama has continuously amazed me for so many weeks in a row now. Like I have seen a couple or more of them these days. I couldn’t stop it, literally, and I don’t know how badly it has messed up my career and my lifestyle since I even skip eating lunch and stay up until dawn just to know how the story goes after each episode ends. And seriously, as I feel sympathy to my favorite character, I feel almost exactly the same way, the same pain, and the pain won’t go away until I see her smile again. So I have to wait for the part where the guy would overflow her with love and affection again, so I could finally sleep with a fine heart…BUT, that’s not what usually happens, when I am on that anticipated part already, I just feel so hooked up and engrossed in those beautiful moments, I don’t want it to end. And I’m sure, I can hear my prim and workaholic character sending in alarm bells. But what can I do? The story makes me really feel good. Made me feel that LOVE is always and would always be everyone’s destination, because that’s where happiness resides. LOVE attracts happiness and keeps happiness at bay. LOVE is so beautiful. LOVE is very deep and very playful too, at times it breaks us and takes away our life, our reasons to live, it overlaps our sense of reason. LOVE is so powerful, it can weaken the mightiest King, it gives HOPE to the oppressed, it lightens up the mood of someone who has a heart of stone, it makes the invincible cry, it pushes two individuals even of different worlds to be together no matter what, it defies all reasons there is to hinder it. Love is everything a man needs to sustain his mere existence. A romantic drama, like a Korean Drama most especially, made me realize that although, LOVE is not good all the time, but actually the downsides of it are what actually made it look even more beautiful. We cannot appreciate LOVE if it’s always kind. We cannot see it’s value if it’s always there. LOVE has to fade for us to look for it, and it teaches us a lesson that it is important to take care of it while we have it, because most of the time, LOVE is evasive, so evasive that when we let loose, it’s gonna be gone forever. LOVE causes us pain because that’s how it is measured. We get hurt by the same amount of love we have felt. So the sicker it makes you feel, the more reasons you have to know that you have to be thankful. You are capable of great LOVE. You LOVE truly, so you’re hurt deeply. So as what they say, In LOVE, inorder to be happy, we have to take the bad along with the good. Because that’s how it always is, be it in love and in life.
Well, I hope this blog is enough justification to how I truly feel. Words sometimes can’t really fathom all those jars of thoughts I wanna fill. And since for me, this new passion for such interest has brought me a lot of reasons to LOVE, I hope it will somehow give you the same inspiration about LOVING too.
I had just finished watching BOYS OVER FLOWER by the way, and I’m certain I have rooted most of my thoughts in here from that. The story is just overwhelmingly poignant!

I recently have this thing about Korean Dramas lately. Although I don’t think it’s strange of me since I always have a heart for  Romance and Love and anything that relates to uber drama, love tragedy, sufferings, heartaches…and happy endings. It’s just that I was not at all interested to anything “Korean” before, I mean no offense but it didn’t interest me maybe because I had a wrong encounter with one not so long ago when I started to think true love could possibly exist at 16. And since today, I had my heart set into talking about this new-found passion, I will talk more about the history of such tragic puppy love encounter I had had on my next blog some time.

Going back to what I said, Korean Drama has continuously amazed me for so many weeks in a row now. Like I have seen a couple or more of them these days. I couldn’t stop it, literally, and I don’t know how badly it has messed up my career and my lifestyle since I even skip eating lunch and stay up until dawn just to know how the story goes after each episode ends. And seriously, as I feel sympathy to my favorite character, I feel almost exactly the same way, the same pain, and the pain won’t go away until I see her smile again. So I have to wait for the part where the guy would overflow her with love and affection again, so I could finally sleep with a fine heart…BUT, that’s not what usually happens, when I am on that anticipated part already, I just feel so hooked up and engrossed in those beautiful moments, I don’t want it to end. And I’m sure, I can hear my prim and workaholic character sending in alarm bells. But what can I do? The story makes me really feel good. Made me feel that LOVE is always and would always be everyone’s destination, because that’s where happiness resides. LOVE attracts happiness and keeps happiness at bay. LOVE is so beautiful. LOVE is very deep and very playful too, at times it breaks us and takes away our life, our reasons to live, it overlaps our sense of reason. LOVE is so powerful, it can weaken the mightiest King, it gives HOPE to the oppressed, it lightens up the mood of someone who has a heart of stone, it makes the invincible cry, it pushes two individuals even of different worlds to be together no matter what, it defies all reasons there is to hinder it. Love is everything a man needs to sustain his mere existence. A romantic drama, like a Korean Drama most especially, made me realize that although, LOVE is not good all the time, but actually the downsides of it are what actually made it look even more beautiful. We cannot appreciate LOVE if it’s always kind. We cannot see it’s value if it’s always there. LOVE has to fade for us to look for it, and it teaches us a lesson that it is important to take care of it while we have it, because most of the time, LOVE is evasive, so evasive that when we let loose, it’s gonna be gone forever. LOVE causes us pain because that’s how it is measured. We get hurt by the same amount of love we have felt. So the sicker it makes you feel, the more reasons you have to know that you have to be thankful. You are capable of great LOVE. You LOVE truly, so you’re hurt deeply. So as what they say, In LOVE, inorder to be happy, we have to take the bad along with the good. Because that’s how it always is, be it in love and in life.

Well, I hope this blog is enough justification to how I truly feel. Words sometimes can’t really fathom all those jars of thoughts I wanna fill. And since for me, this new passion for such interest has brought me a lot of reasons to LOVE, I hope it will somehow give you the same inspiration about LOVING too.

I had just finished watching BOYS OVER FLOWER by the way, and I’m certain I have rooted most of my thoughts in here from that. The story is just overwhelmingly poignant!

Today, atleast say I Love You only because you MEAN it.
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!♥

Today, atleast say I Love You only because you MEAN it.

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!♥


Celebrating Love on V-day
This morning, a friend asked me like how am I gonna spend my Valentine’s day. I answered matter-of-factly that I’m not really at all excited or anything near to that. And worse, I didn’t even know that tomorrow is already the day lovers have been always anticipating every year. I am not just excited. Probably because I have not much reasons to celebrate, and I think the excitement of Valentine’s Day does not tingle me anymore. I mean, I just don’t care much about it anyway, compared to when I was 5-10 years younger.
Well, I think anyone of us can really celebrate love anytime. There’s no season for that. As long as you feel lucky to have found the right love for you, and you have reasons enough to be thankful, then why not celebrate? Do I sound rational? Anyway, Valentine’s Day must still, and always be celebrated though. It’s a constant reminder to us that there is true love, people inlove do really exist and somehow it makes us think that we too are capable to be loved. Who isn’t? As soon as I will meet my one true love, (right now my bitter thoughts are telling me like, “really?”) Well yeah, I still believe that I can have my own love story too. The one much better than what I used to have, and lost. A lot more beautiful and honest, a love I wouldn’t die for because it’s a love that would always give me life and reasons to beleive in forever. It’s a love that would make me dream to be a mother, a wonderful one, and makes me imagine sitting in a porch one day, drinking coffee with my one and only beside me, staring at me and telling me like, “I can’t believe it’s been 50 years darling”. Wow, that’s just wonderful. And sure, I will meet that man. Not soon maybe but surely someday, I hope before I get 30. And when that would happen…everyday is my Valentine’s Day. And February the 14th, will be very envious of my daily dose of loving. Hmmmm.. Isn’t it great?
Yeah, I dream often, and fortunately, I do always make them come true. I believe dreams do come true. And I get them.
Happy Heart’s Day everyone!

Celebrating Love on V-day

This morning, a friend asked me like how am I gonna spend my Valentine’s day. I answered matter-of-factly that I’m not really at all excited or anything near to that. And worse, I didn’t even know that tomorrow is already the day lovers have been always anticipating every year. I am not just excited. Probably because I have not much reasons to celebrate, and I think the excitement of Valentine’s Day does not tingle me anymore. I mean, I just don’t care much about it anyway, compared to when I was 5-10 years younger.

Well, I think anyone of us can really celebrate love anytime. There’s no season for that. As long as you feel lucky to have found the right love for you, and you have reasons enough to be thankful, then why not celebrate? Do I sound rational? Anyway, Valentine’s Day must still, and always be celebrated though. It’s a constant reminder to us that there is true love, people inlove do really exist and somehow it makes us think that we too are capable to be loved. Who isn’t? As soon as I will meet my one true love, (right now my bitter thoughts are telling me like, “really?”) Well yeah, I still believe that I can have my own love story too. The one much better than what I used to have, and lost. A lot more beautiful and honest, a love I wouldn’t die for because it’s a love that would always give me life and reasons to beleive in forever. It’s a love that would make me dream to be a mother, a wonderful one, and makes me imagine sitting in a porch one day, drinking coffee with my one and only beside me, staring at me and telling me like, “I can’t believe it’s been 50 years darling”. Wow, that’s just wonderful. And sure, I will meet that man. Not soon maybe but surely someday, I hope before I get 30. And when that would happen…everyday is my Valentine’s Day. And February the 14th, will be very envious of my daily dose of loving. Hmmmm.. Isn’t it great?

Yeah, I dream often, and fortunately, I do always make them come true. I believe dreams do come true. And I get them.

Happy Heart’s Day everyone!


Sometimes, Leaving Is The Only Option Left
Have you ever been swept  off your feet?
Have you ever been pursued and loved by someone you thought could be a very desirable character in one of the best novels you’re reading?
What makes up a great relationship by the way?
Answer:
1. Yes, I have.
2. Yes, and I thought that was like a fairytale. I am not an extraordinary girl, I don’t have the most desirable character like Cinderella. I have my flaws. I have my insecurities. I don’t belong to your idea of an elite world. I am not famous. I don’t have Miranda Kerr‘s curves…But I have won the heart of the most arrogant, selfish, and dominating male I have ever met. I was proud of that. Infact, it made me feel so happy. I felt great. I felt secure and I thought I was living in my fantasy. It was so beautiful. I suddenly stopped writing any more of my unpublished novels. I thought my reality is far better that the lyrical presentation of romatic things I imagined, and put through writing. I stopped dreaming. I literally stopped my once humble world from turning and entered another I thought, is far-fetched.  But a romantic movie, a fantasy book, a fairy tale, hide so much from its reader/viewer. They definitely didn’t tell-all. They edited the bad parts, the downside of everything. They didn’t include the fighting scenes, the argument stage, the selfish moments, the ignoring part, the hatred, the tears of sadness, loneliness, worries, fear. They only portray a villain in most cases and of which the couple surpassed, and eventually have a happy life despite all. But in real life, the true villain is yourself. After few years of being dreamy, you wake up and see yourself unhappy. There is that hollow within, that the other person can’t void. You realize, a fantasy is indeed a fantasy. It doesn’t happen in our world. It is beyond mortal. And a fairytale happens in a world with fairies and magic wand. Not ours to experience. So it’s a dream. A dream that can’t be true.
3. So, how to make up a good relationship?
Well, I don’t know. But I know that love is an important factor. Love is not provided with the elaborations of fantastic presents and overflowing promises. A relationship is made up of two individuals who believe in the realization of true love. Two individuals who proclaim true devotions and prove it to be true on and on… True love believes in forever and literally lives in it, talks about it and reminds each other why they have to be together without selfish reasons. They have to be constantly respectful to each other despite ugly circumstances. Respect must be highly valued, for without it, love dies. Respect nourishes love, communication enriches love, acceptance assures love. When there is respect in relationship, you don’t fall easily because at the end of everything, you have that confidence that the person won’t humiliate you. When there is communication, love grows…love understands, love listens, love becomes romantic, love can be expressive…When there is communication, there are more laughters and eventhough tears come out, you’ll know some other will wipe it dry. You won’t be crying alone, love won’t be lonely. Acceptance is important because love needs to be embraced for whatever form it has. Acceptance is important because that’s what everyone of us long for…but acceptance is tough, it needs an open-mind and a kind heart. One cannot accept anything without believing that somehow it could make them well. We accept things because we lack of it, we need it for growth, or because we have to take care of it.
Apparently, I miss all those three. And I’m not really loved the way my sense of happiness dictates me to be…

Sometimes, Leaving Is The Only Option Left

Have you ever been swept  off your feet?

Have you ever been pursued and loved by someone you thought could be a very desirable character in one of the best novels you’re reading?

What makes up a great relationship by the way?

Answer:

1. Yes, I have.

2. Yes, and I thought that was like a fairytale. I am not an extraordinary girl, I don’t have the most desirable character like Cinderella. I have my flaws. I have my insecurities. I don’t belong to your idea of an elite world. I am not famous. I don’t have Miranda Kerr‘s curves…But I have won the heart of the most arrogant, selfish, and dominating male I have ever met. I was proud of that. Infact, it made me feel so happy. I felt great. I felt secure and I thought I was living in my fantasy. It was so beautiful. I suddenly stopped writing any more of my unpublished novels. I thought my reality is far better that the lyrical presentation of romatic things I imagined, and put through writing. I stopped dreaming. I literally stopped my once humble world from turning and entered another I thought, is far-fetched.  But a romantic movie, a fantasy book, a fairy tale, hide so much from its reader/viewer. They definitely didn’t tell-all. They edited the bad parts, the downside of everything. They didn’t include the fighting scenes, the argument stage, the selfish moments, the ignoring part, the hatred, the tears of sadness, loneliness, worries, fear. They only portray a villain in most cases and of which the couple surpassed, and eventually have a happy life despite all. But in real life, the true villain is yourself. After few years of being dreamy, you wake up and see yourself unhappy. There is that hollow within, that the other person can’t void. You realize, a fantasy is indeed a fantasy. It doesn’t happen in our world. It is beyond mortal. And a fairytale happens in a world with fairies and magic wand. Not ours to experience. So it’s a dream. A dream that can’t be true.

3. So, how to make up a good relationship?

Well, I don’t know. But I know that love is an important factor. Love is not provided with the elaborations of fantastic presents and overflowing promises. A relationship is made up of two individuals who believe in the realization of true love. Two individuals who proclaim true devotions and prove it to be true on and on… True love believes in forever and literally lives in it, talks about it and reminds each other why they have to be together without selfish reasons. They have to be constantly respectful to each other despite ugly circumstances. Respect must be highly valued, for without it, love dies. Respect nourishes love, communication enriches love, acceptance assures love. When there is respect in relationship, you don’t fall easily because at the end of everything, you have that confidence that the person won’t humiliate you. When there is communication, love grows…love understands, love listens, love becomes romantic, love can be expressive…When there is communication, there are more laughters and eventhough tears come out, you’ll know some other will wipe it dry. You won’t be crying alone, love won’t be lonely. Acceptance is important because love needs to be embraced for whatever form it has. Acceptance is important because that’s what everyone of us long for…but acceptance is tough, it needs an open-mind and a kind heart. One cannot accept anything without believing that somehow it could make them well. We accept things because we lack of it, we need it for growth, or because we have to take care of it.

Apparently, I miss all those three. And I’m not really loved the way my sense of happiness dictates me to be…

“It takes maturity to accept that life will bring pain and courage to still insist on calling it beautiful. It’s like being caught in a downpour and, instead of cursing the rain, raising your hands to Heaven; humbled that God would allow you to swim in His grace. Everyday, we are invited to swim in grace.”

“It takes maturity to accept that life will bring pain and courage to still insist on calling it beautiful. It’s like being caught in a downpour and, instead of cursing the rain, raising your hands to Heaven; humbled that God would allow you to swim in His grace. Everyday, we are invited to swim in grace.”

That’s what we do, we fight! You tell me when I’m being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you’re being a pain in the ass, which you are 99% of the time. I’m not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate and your back doing the next pain in the ass thing. So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard and we’re gonna have to work at this everyday. But I wanna do that because I want you, I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday.” - Noah
The Notebook