1/4/2018 2 Comments Just Another New Year PostWell, hello there! My fellow digital champion. I am writing this blog post while waiting for my plane, I still have 2 hours of waiting time and I thought, why not write a blog post? It’s been a while. In all ways, 2017 had become the toughest year I’ve ever had in my adolescent life. Although sometimes I’m not sure given the fact that every yearend, I feel like that year has been my worst. This year opened a lot of eyes, ears, arms and…uhm, never mind. My point is, I learned a lot about myself this year than all the years of my life combined.
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10/15/2017 1 Comment The Pursuit of One's BalanceI have been everyone, while being no one. Words that have been living in me for as long as I remember, thoughts that had never been read, heard, or seen from me–until now. I’ve always repressed a part of me whenever I write these blog posts. Instead of feeling free, I feel that I am the one who confines me within my own walls; I’m like a bird that chose to be in a cage even though his master already opened its doors for him to spread his wings. 10/8/2017 6 Comments The Pursuit for One's PlaceTerrifying as it may seem, there will be a time in our lives where we find ourselves lost–not belonging to any group, not in any of the so-called families that we recognize, not in any of the society’s factions (cue in Ellie Goulding’s “Beating Heart”), and you will feel that you don’t belong anywhere in the world. You meet people that would give you the feeling of being accepted but eventually, someone or something takes that away from you, giving you a hard time to actually find your place in the world. On my previous post, I shared my opinion on how your name gives you your space in this paradoxical world and how the pursuit for its true meaning greatly affects how you see the universe (You can read it here.). Now, the second question that my mom used to ask me when I was a kid was “Where do you live?” 10/7/2017 1 Comment The Pursuit of One's IdentityThings can get so messed up in your life that gets you to the point that you don’t even recognize yourself when you see a reflection on those cupboard mirrors that you used to look at. You get to the point in your life that you get so consumed by an idea, an emotion, a happening–a person that you lose yourself in the process. There’s this ancient Hindu concept of being reincarnated after death until you finish all that there is that you have to finish and eventually “graduate” and melt away with The Great Void.
6/24/2017 0 Comments Life Update: First Half of 2017Alone, in one of the corners of a rectangular-shaped, dark chocolate-colored table, adjacent to a slogan painted on the wall saying “Stay hungry, stay foolish” by the fantastic Steve Jobs, with The Smith’s “Asleep” from Louder than Bombs plays in the distant background channeling my inner Charlie, there’s this soul wondering how his life had been for the past one hundred, eighty-two days, thirteen hours and five minutes. Wondering if he had gotten better than he was before just as what he promised to himself, if he had grown mature, if he is happier. 2016 was a very bad year. Last January 1st, we were given yet another chance to turn the tide around. To make up for whatever we have lost in the past, to be new. It has been 6 months since then, and how am I doing? How are you doing? How is my heart doing? |