Marky Maligmat

Author: Marky Maligmat

  • Want To Express But Too Afraid To Make A Mistake?

    I’m personally writing this for myself, but I’m also hoping that this piece touches the hearts of anyone who finds it.

    For many years, it’s been my desire to express myself in every possible ways; it could be in the form of producing a video, photography, or writing a blog.

    I have no problem expressing myself in a blog because I know that only a handful of people may stumble upon this website, but expressing on my personal social media account? That’s an obvious no-no for me.

    • I’m afraid that I might offend people
    • I don’t want to look foolish in public eye, especially for the audience that personally know me
    • It’s cringy

    When I think hard enough of why I really want to express myself and share a piece of me with the world. I asked myself, what do I really want from this? Do I want the potential money or fame out of it?
    I suddenly answered my question back. What I need is the community of enthusiast to something and influence in some way.

    So, now that I’ve got my answer. Here are the things I did and will continue to do and expand to have a number of community that I want to belong:

    • Be helpful: If you help, people will tend to help back or at least get inspired by you. They will also sometimes follow you, your advice, or maybe hear your point of view. If you are helpful and always deliver, you deserve a follow because people wants to know the way you take care of things.
    • Checking on events: I usually check events on Facebook and find interesting things to attend too, and I also met some amazing people in the past events I attended. What I like about Facebook events is that they are localized and serve as a go-to platform for everything in the Philippines; however, you can also use other platforms like Meetup and Eventbrite.
    • Creating a brand new social media account: This one is on my to-do list and I want to try it on instagram, threads, and substack. Having a brand new social media and not following you know is another way to express freely.
    • Cold Email: Reaching out to blogs that I genuinely follow and thank them for writing and creating their blog, maybe, exchange ideas.

    My ending thoughts
    There are many ways to express and it doesn’t need to be loud, it can be chill, subtle, and messy. Because of that, I will plan to expand and update this post in the future or maybe, extend it to another post as I test and experiment along the way.

  • Random Introduction

    I first got the domain markymaligmat.com around March 2021 for the purpose of putting myself online and somehow introducing my web development service.

    I’ve recreated, redesigned, rebranded, and shut down this website a couple of times because I don’t feel the voice in every reiteration I made. I’ve followed countless influencers, implemented the best practices, and watched a lot of YouTube videos to get inspiration on how I will design it if I’m going to offer my service, but then again, I don’t see my soul in every iteration.

    This time is going to be different.

    I’ll unapologetically write just for myself, add as many pages as I want, not beg for SEO or algorithms to work in my favor, add many layers of topics along the way, make it wild, improve as I go, and welcome imperfections.

    Why do this approach?

    • This is the only approach that I can imagine if I want to reminisce on previous events and maybe tell myself in the future, “I couldn’t believe that I wrote this before,” or “Did I actually support this stupid idea?”
    • The commitment: Since I welcome imperfection and fixing things along the way on this website. It simply means that this personal project is going to be a lifelong commitment.
    • Aside from what I’m doing for a living, I think it’s a good addition to my introduction if I say, “I talk to myself on a daily basis by updating my personal website.”
    • Last but not least, I want this mini-project to be my helpful companion against doom-scrolling.

  • Peace Is Every Breath: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

    ISBN 10: ‎0062005820

    ISBN-13: ‎978-0062005823

    My Notes:

    No matter what you’re doing, you can choose to do it with your full presence, with mindfulness and concentration; and your action becomes a spiritual practice.

    Just one breath, in and out, can make us fully present and fully alive again, and then the energy of mindfulness is there in us. Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.

    spiritual practice is possible for all of us. You cannot say, “I’m just too busy, I have no time for meditation.” No. Walking from one building to another, walking from the parking lot to your office, you can always enjoy walking mindfully, and enjoy every one of your steps.

    Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth, I vow to speak purely and lovingly. When my mouth is fragrant with right speech, a flower blooms in the garden of my heart.

    Don’t let habitual thinking carry you off to events of the past or the future, or trap you in worries, sorrow, or anger.

    Deep down, we believe we can’t really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life.

    I have arrived, I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid, I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

    You have many things to do, and you want to succeed in every area. There’s nothing wrong with that. But you should arrange your life so that your work truly brings you happiness each day.

    Know how to shake off the worries and live joyfully.

    The Four Noble Truths are: first, there is suffering; second, there is a path or a series of conditions that has produced the suffering; third, suffering can be ended—happiness is always possible; and fourth, there is a path that leads to the cessation of suffering, to happiness.

    Everything we see, hear, think, and experience gets stored away in the depths of our consciousness. The Buddha called this our store consciousness.

    Liberation means, first of all, breaking out of the prison of our past.

    Mindful consumption means choosing to consume things that bring peace and happiness, rather than agitation and harm, to our body and mind

    We may have cultivated good taste and beautiful ideals in ourselves and our family, but we could lose them if we go to live in a place where everyone has tastes and habits that are different from ours. At first we feel uncomfortable, but after a while we become accustomed to the ideas of the majority, and in the end we’re following the crowd without even realizing it.

    Our happiness or lack of happiness depends mostly on the state of our mind, not on anything external. It’s our own attitude, the way we look at things, our approach to life, that determines whether we’re happy or not.

    (“ What are we waiting for to be happy? Why wait to celebrate?”)

    Someone who’s there today might not be there tomorrow; someone who’s strong and healthy today might fall ill tomorrow; someone who’s not very nice today may become a much nicer person tomorrow; and so on.

    True love brings only happiness; it never makes you suffer.

    When we think we’re loving someone but we don’t really understand him, we end up hurting him.

    (“ The right charity begins with oneself”).

    The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it, from them; and the way things have been going, we’re not sure we’ll be able to give it back to them in decent shape.

    We need a collective awakening. One Buddha is not enough.

    End of Notes