Twelve to-do things for you this New Year

Me with my friends, Senator Loren Legarda, Arlyn dela Cruz and Ding Gagelonia

Here is a list of things you should do before the new year:

1. Rummage your old stuff. Those still good but you rarely use, put it in a bundle. When you’re done, call ABS-CBN, GMA Kapuso Foundation or any group you trust and give the bundles to them.

2. Food that you did not consume in last night’s Noche Buena, put them in clean containers. Go out of your homes and bring food to the needy. They need you this Christmas.

3. If you still have time, spend it with the lolas and lolos in the Home for the Aged. For those who want to bring cheer to kids, go to Boys and Girls Town in Mandaluyong. You are needed there.

4. If you have some money left, give it to your favorite foundation. It will help a lot, especially for those affected by natural calamities and man-made disasters. 

5. For those living near evacuation centers, please, at least spend an hour of your time today, and bring  food and some clothes to evacuees. Or, if you don’t have it, like me, just sing them a song and cheer them. They need your lovin today.

6. Visit your parents. Spend quality time with them. Tell them how much you love them. For orphans, just go to their grave sites or simply spend this day with your siblings.

7. Make a list of friends you argued with, those whom you severed your ties with, and give them a gift. Don’t forget to light the fuse. Just joking. Ask for their forgiveness and heal your rifts with them.

8. Meditate for at least one hour. Clear your mind of negative thoughts and visualize what will happen to you and your family next year. Don’t forget to visualize a clean and honest and violence-free elections, okey?

9. Visit a nearby park or nature preservation. Have a picnic. Appreciate the beauty of what God gave us and thank God for giving us this world. This is the only earth we have. And tell yourself that I will help preserve it.

10. Read the Bible or the Koran for my fellow Muslim brothers or the Bhadgavat-gita for my Hindu friends. Be illuminated with God’s light. Ask for God’s guidance. Seek His Wisdom. And pray for those who are in need, who are orphaned, who were widowed and who were seeking justice. Pray. It helps.

11. Make a list of really honest, God-fearing and graft-free people whom you’ll elect into office next year. If some of those you listed are not really the Jinggoy Estrada, Bong Revilla or Defensor-Santiago types, meaning cellar dwellers in surveys, list down the things you are prepared to volunteer to make them win. We need new blood in the political system. Also, don’t forget to list there what you are prepared to do should those you listed failed in their electoral promises.:-)

12. Smile. And share that smile with the world.

For those who still dream of having a better world, know this—God favors the longsuffering and will surely give Justice where there is none. Hold on to that Hope, my friends