by Buhisan, Anna Marie L.

Butterfly shimmer,

Without shining diamond –

It’s a heart’s treasure

The nobility of an individual is not measured by his social standing. It is determined by a person’s view of life and their desire to live it to the fullest, pulled by their passion and faith along it. It’s about what he believes would bring him fulfillment, the happiness he acquires on what he stands to believe in through living it.
Hence, not everyone has principles, not everyone knows what they really want in life, and not everyone values the preciousness of life. Not everybody has been taught the virtues of living a moral life. These leads people having propensity to be influenced by the media’s expectations on what is being aired in different media platforms; which has been instilled in their minds, and that  they believe these societal norms would fill them. It’s tragic how social media often influence people’s perceptions by the aesthetic and lavish posts from rich folks. Down to society’s ideals of a perfect female body image, a perfect high-paying job, an ideal socioeconomic status of property, an ideal skin tone – prejudice, an ideal facial features and etc. It’s when people desired something that’ll boost their pride, the need for attention that they might be able to acquire through power, fame, and money, among other things.  It’s ironic how these people want to be loved and feel the need to love in the first place. Many of us wrongly perceive love that is something to be obtained by an ego boost, something we could get our pride for; when in no doubt love is the key to our existence that formulates our good principles in living it.
Where man invests his understanding,
 patience, kindness, compassion, self-sacrifice, and all other means of   loving a person, animal, environment and etc. Though pride is rooted in a man’s nature, it is not a guarantee that he will obsess over it, that will only make him miserable of its consequence. Only a man knows how to live humbly when he is content to follow his principles for the greater good. Importantly, the secret to living a life through good values and principles will make a greater sense. It’s a treasure no one could get from him.

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* I made this poem, Haiku in year 2014.

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