Reasons to Lose #17

It is so extremely liberating when your pants drop down by themselves the first time. There is no greater feeling in the world…..well there are, but this is still an awesome feeling!

Another Brick

It never ceases to amaze me how life can surprise you. One second you’re mad at the world because nothing is going your way and the next second life flips the script and you seem to be on a roll. When you’re on that bit of wind pushing you up just embrace it willingly and don’t dwell on the negative stuff that happened to you previously.

Strive to be a standout, don’t be a part of the crowd or just another one of “them”.

This piece was written back in May last year and I never published it becauses the final verse never felt quite right. But here it is sans the third verse (still sucks to me). Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

Another Brick

Why be another brick in the wall
whats the point of living if all
you do is conform
trying so hard to fit in with the crowd
you lose all sense of who you are
Yet here you stand looking at me cross-eyed
simply because I’m living my life
as I see fit, but no apologies
will you from me receive
I’d rather be an outcast
yes I’d rather be a non-conformist

Reasons to Lose #18

You’ll be able to do a WHOLE lot more pullups….because there is less to pull up.

Reasons to lose #19

Are you one of those persons who go for more extreme types of travelling or just love that adrenaline rush? Ever rode on one of those WaveRunners? Fun right? Wait till you ride that WaveRunner, quad, or snowmobile when you’re 20 pounds lighter. Vroom, baby. Ain’t no stopping you then!!!

20 Reasons to lose

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I will be creating a workout plan for myself and post it here. I’ll also be dropping  afew tips and tricks that I find online and in mags. Anyways, back to the meat of the matter

Even if you have the strongest resolve sometimes we falter and at times we lose sight of our goals and why we’re out to get them in the first place. Whenever you next consider that 12th cookie or think about skipping the gym (the third time this week) read these motivators, I will be posting one a day for the next 20 days. They should give you just the motivation you need to keep going.

Here is reason number 20

In our society, people respect weight loss. Even if you do nothing cool or interesting or memorable for the rest of your life, you’ll have done that.

Has truer words ever been spoken? You know you respect someone who loses weight and that beautiful young lady across the way does too…so keep GOING!

Processes

I am long overdue for a post on here and I’m still at a loss as to what to post. This has been a whirlwind week and I’m looking to see what the weekend has to hold for me. But anyways I found this poem I had written (coincidentally its about what a little love can do [yet not Valentine related]). I have no idea when this was written or what inspired me but it is a nice piece (at least to me) and I decided to just post it. Here is

Processes

Buried  under an emotional shroud
feelings stayed unspoken aloud
not even whispered
to myself
for fear its leaked to someone else
like a bullet in the chamber
filled with anger
and a temper
waiting for the finger
that errs
and puts pressure
on the trigger
thinking it’s simpler
to inter-
nalize all my issues
so simple
yet in turn
it costs,
negative thoughts
lingered,
instead of being solved,
what occurred
was problems
unsolved went,
leaving me burnt
buried
under (the)
burden,
the world
I was willing to give the finger
then this girl
she turned
my thought
process up side down
I incurred
something called love
she reached down
the shroud I was under
pulled me out and made me love her

Alphonso ‘el maèstro’ P4L

sometime last year (‘09)

Never Too Much Faith

This piece came to me back in May last year when a couple relationships were crumbling and falling apart around me and it made me realise that for the most part what happened was that one person was putting EVERY thing they had into the relationship, while the other person just lazed (is that a word) around and took everything for granted. Anyways, here is “Never Too Much Faith”.

Never
put too much faith into another
dont
give more than they put out
for
in the end its your heart on the floor

settle
not into a situation uncertain
set
the outlines from the outset

do
what you can to protect you
because
only you can cover your ass
in
the event of an emotional cave-in

just
carefully choose who with your emotions you entrust
alienate
not your friends when things are great
alone
you will find yourself in the cold
sniffling
hoping, dreaming, moping, wishing
that
in the beginning you had
never
put too much faith into another

Alphonso ‘el maèstro’ P4L

May 13, 2009

No Penis is an Island

This is a re-post from the Writer’s Cyanide blog (which you SHOULD have read by now) which a couple friends and I have started.

I was talking to a friend today and the topic of not being able to pitch a tent came up and sparked a very heated debate. Anyways without further ado, let’s get on to the reason we’re here….

So, here I am, sitting in the living room, sports news on in the background but I don’t care because they are talking bout horse racing, cricket [who watches that?] and in a few they’ll be mentioning Arsenal’s dismal 3-0 loss to Chelsea. The fat man is making some unintelligible sounds [i don't consider that language] and I’m wondering what to write. Read more

Who’s Got Your Back?

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they are faced with difficult decisions. When they arrive at that proverbial crossroads and are uncertain how to proceed. At this point it is usually helpful if we have the support of a strong network of family and friends to assist us and to give us a little advice and a nudge or two if we end up slacking.

What do you do when you don’t have that family network to rely on? If it is your family that has thrust you (possibly prematurely) unto the path of an oncoming truck at that crossroads at which you find  yourself? Where do you turn? To whom do you turn?

I suppose the most logical answer would be to friends, or the church or other support groups. But, how about you turn to the person who knows you best, the one person who knows all your strengths and weaknesses? I’m talking of none other than the person that you wake up and see in the mirror on a daily basis.

When you stop to think about it, if we allow our lives to be run by the various other elements which exists mainly for their own profit in some way or another, where will we be in the end? I don’t even want to imagine.

When you find yourself at wit’s end, feeling lost and alone, just wrap yourself in the warmth that should come from the knowledge that there is one person who won’t desert you, one person who will be with you through the  thick and the thin. When you are strong enough to love yourself in this way, everything and everyone else will be that much easier to handle.

Only You Matter

Giving Thanks

In all things give thanks

don’t let small things make you slit hands
if you do it’s your mistake so sit and
find your slick way through the shit and

smile your day comes
a while it may take some
broken bones
never let your spirit be broken no

your spirit let them break not
negative influences shake off
like Napoleon Hill said of
opinions
freely given are
not worth their weight
the only one that does ain’t
from another
friend, mother, brother, sister, lover
no enemy
its from within…

Alphonso ‘el maèstro’ P4L

Sept. 28, 2009