Mourning the years lost pleasing people
These past few days, I have been questioning myself over who I could have become if only I was not...
I passed UP, now what?
I always knew I would get an admission to the University of the Philippines (UP). My entire life as a...
The sound of loneliness
I often wonder if the loneliness that sits in the pit of my stomach is meant to be perpetual. I’m...
To kill a dream
As we opened the balikbayan box from South Korea, my Tita handed me a textbook about the history of humankind....
Fleeting friendships, lasting solitude
I often worry about the prospect of being alone—not the fleeting, temporary sense of the word, but rather, its more...
‘Twenteen’
LAST MARCH 9, I turned 20 and I’m intimidated by the change of syllable at the end of my age,...
The mind is stronger than the stomach
The mind is more powerful than the body. My Mom always reminded us of this mindset every time we felt...
God in the digital era
My family is not the typical religious family, but my parents taught me how to pray. Attend Mass? Sometimes if...
The healing rain of May
I realized that last night’s abrupt downpour was the first rain of May. Not that I regularly monitor the weather,...
Seize tomorrow
I turned 20 recently, and in those two decades of my existence, sad to say, my life has been one...
