{"id":4807,"date":"2011-12-20T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2011-12-20T23:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T15:44:15","slug":"finding-good-in-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/finding-good-in-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding good in every day."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Every day may not be good, but there&#8217;s something good in every day.&#8217;<br \/>\n~Author Unknown<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4808\" title=\"_JSP9371\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JSP9371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"632\" \/><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\">It rained so heavily yesterday here in Singapore. All day. And I think it&#8217;ll be another gloomy day again today. I could complain about how inconvenient it would be to go out of the house or ruin a sunshine shoot for the day but I chose not to. There was also a train delay the day before that and I ended up hailing a taxi, which by the way has lately increased their fares. Plus it was a long queue I had to hold on to my patience. I could rant so much about all these things but I decided not to. And when I start reflecting back of other things I could complain about in my own life in the past, I realized more today I must have grown up a little bit. Maybe so. Because I&#8217;ve learned how to make &#8216;better&#8217; choices within my thoughts &#8211; though it&#8217;s really really really not easy &#8211; it&#8217;s a battle within my brain &#8211; which ones to keep and which ones to throw away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Because indeed,\u00a0<em>&#8216;Every day may not be good, but there&#8217;s something good in every day.&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0Thanks to a friend who posted that on her FB status wall that I had to repost it here. And it makes me really feel guilty to complain of such petty things compared to what&#8217;s happening to the rest of the world. I just found out sadly that a friend told me she&#8217;s suffering from a health condition that may require major operation if needed be. I&#8217;m praying for her fast recovery and for those who are suffering other conditions too to have more courage and hope.<\/p>\n<p>And so you know, this is what makes me go through life and I thought it might do the same thing for you &#8212; every time I feel bad, feel awry or so hurt with something or by someone, I think of all these and always try harder to find the good in the bad. Yes, I cry it out still. Like a LOT. But after that moment of distress, I had to tell myself to endure and believe there&#8217;s always, <em>and I mean always<\/em>, a better reason or reasons why things happen the way they do. And because that&#8217;s how Life is. So I remain grateful and appreciative, moment by moment.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-16229394\">a tropical storm that hit southern part of the Philippines<\/a> and sadly, lots of lives has been lost and still missing. So I&#8217;m putting this post as a shout out too, for anyone willing to share and shed whatever amount to\u00a0to continue providing relief and recovery efforts to victims especially from parts of Cagayan &amp; Iligan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org.ph\/donatenow\">visit the Philippine Red Cross link here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4815\" title=\"AdforPhilRedCross\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdforPhilRedCross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>God Bless your hearts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Every day may not be good, but there&#8217;s something good in every day.&#8217; ~Author Unknown It rained so heavily yesterday here in Singapore. All day. And I think it&#8217;ll be another gloomy day again today. I could complain about how inconvenient it would be to go out of the house or ruin a sunshine shoot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,4],"tags":[250,251,249,248,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-4807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-giving-back-projects","8":"category-lifes-musings","9":"tag-donate","10":"tag-give-back","11":"tag-help-save","12":"tag-philippine-red-cross","13":"tag-typhoon-sendong"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AdforPhilRedCross.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}