Celebrate What’s Right With the World

I was shown this video last Saturday and I love it.

The video is actually part of a $795 training program being sold online called “Celebrate What’s Right with the World“  where he talks about finding the beauty in ordinary things or even desolate places.  I am not endorsing or reviewing the program in this post, by the way, just mentioning that apparently such a training program exists.

Dewitt Jones in the video says it all:

“We all have mentors in the world… National Geographic was that for me… to show us the possibilities of the world…every time they sent me out…to celebrate what is right in the world… not wallow in what was wrong with it.”

“Vision controls our perception… perception becomes our reality…when the vision is clear, passion and creativity are there as well.”

I guess this is where I falter. When I started Go Baguio! I was looking at the City of Pines with positive eyes. I was living my dream and telling everyone about it, reveling in the beauty of my “poor but happy life.” Materially not that rich but who cares about that when material things are not important and we live in a place that is so generous.

So generous that I could not imagine how any resident can consider himself poor, unless he insists on gauging wealth based on material possessions. Just the “free air conditioning” alone, whether living in a shanty or a mansion makes living here so enviable!

When I enter my own site, I marvel at Baguio City and its “wonderfulness” and am inspired to infect everyone with my enthusiasm some more. That is why Go Baguio! is more successful than Baguio Insider.

Then came, at least for me, chaos, squalor, uglification — a reflection of the spirit of the city. Hopelessness. Despair.

And I was infected with it, too. And Baguio Insider, which was just supposed to “explain Baguio away,” a lot of times would turn angry and hopeless and desperate, too. Sorry for that.

Having grown up with Marcos’ martial law, I have always considered silence to be evil. Here is one person who will “stare evil in the face and do battle.” Here is one person who refuses to accept, hopelessly and desperately, the status quo of corruption coupled with incompetence as a way of life, as a governmental model, as a business model.  Here is one person who is not afraid. And I was hoping to help folks find their voice, too.

And sometimes, the anger and desperation would consume me. So I discovered that anger is energy that burns up pretty fast — folks who know me know that my anger dissipates in about 30 seconds, by the way. But writing angrily, in a blog, makes the anger last longer than it should.

Actually, I use the word anger now, but when I would write it was really all about righteous indignation — but folks can hardly tell the difference when one uses strong words and exclamation points to stress one’s point.

After watching the video I learned to:

“Open up your world to not only keeps us open to possibilities, it gives us energy…and it makes us more accepting of change. Instead of griping what’s wrong with the situation, celebrate whats right with it.”"

“It gives us energy to fix what is wrong.”

So I actually found my fuel — and of course it’s not anger. Being not so analytical when it comes to personal circumstances, I just did not recognize it. The fuel is the love. The fuel is the magic. The fuel is the faith. All I have to do is believe it is still there. And I do.

So here’s what I was actually doing while I was silent at Baguio Insider — I was celebrating what’s right about Baguio, its visitor attractions, what was right with my world” by writing about some more of them at Go Baguio!

Maybe I should merge both sites into a blog instead, or close this site down and just add the ability to place comments at Go Baguio! I also have been silent because I was weighing my options. I honestly do better with static sites, not blogs. This site is just a “hobby,” but I figured my readership loves the ability to comment and interact so I understand the importance of running a blog.

So at Go Baguio! read all about:

1. The newly opened BenCab Museum

2. Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary

3. Easter Weaving Room

4. The Baguio Tourist Attractions portal that has links to the other pages about each tourist attraction with important information like how to get there, business hours, history and other general information.

So I am still back to square one — still not merging both Baguio sites into one. Still not being able to choose which platform to use  — a dilemma lasting two years already as I am learning more and more about web site creation and search engine optimization.

Or maybe there’s no need to merge sites — I just have to work twice as hard.

And about Celebrating What’s Right With the World? I have to just go back to where I was in 2006 . And retrain myself to be Polyanna again.

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