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1/11/2019 0 Comments 2018. My favorite one.
I can’t quite believe all of the years that have flown on by. Here are some of the precious little takeaways that I have managed to learn throughout my journey. I hope some of them would come in handy as you wave through this journey called life. These things of course, may or may not also apply to you. *Read at your own risk. 1. You can lose precious friendships in the blink of an eye. You can lose dearest friends just as fast as making one. And sometimes, you'll be surprised that it's actually for the better.
~~~ 2. Choose your battles wisely. You don't have time to cater to every single war coming in your way. Your time is precious, so invest it into something worthy of your energy. ~~~ 3. Keep yourself busy. Apply the "You Only Live Once" motto in keeping yourself occupied with the things that can help you gain life skills and experiences to help you grow as a person. ~~~ 4. Some people have their own way of ruining every single chance you blindly offer to them. It shouldn't be your burden to prove they deserve that chance, it's always theirs to prove they deserve a place back in your life. ~~~ 5. Sometimes you walk into a situation where you know exactly what’s going to happen. But then you go into it anyway. And then when what you were afraid of happens, you kick yourself because you should have known better. It’s okay. Forgive yourself. But don’t ever do it again. ~~~ 6. Inconsistent friendship is a waste of time. But it’s way better than being a lone animal in the sea of creatures. Learn to return the favor and learn to only invest minimal emotions. ~~~ 7. Life is much better when you stop caring too much about every single thing that is happening around you. Stop worrying about anyone or anything that will never matter 6 months from now. ~~~ 8. Burning some bridges is more practical than forcing connections with people. If they want to be around, they’ll make a way. If they don’t, then save yourself some stress and gracefully lead them the way out of your life. ~~~ 9. Expect less and save your heart from temporary people. You are going to meet a lot of temporary people. Be cautious enough to expect any lasting connection. ~~~ 10. You can be the one dropping hints, making the first moves and all, but if someone's not interested, that person will never care. ~~~ 11. Always try to learn something new from the perspective of other people different from you. Meeting unique people in your circle could be a little less futile when you learn to unlock their purpose in your life. ~~~ 12. Minimize overthinking. You'll ruin the ongoing plot of your life. Watch and anticipate life as it unfolds. ~~~ 13. There will always be bad days so don’t be too hard to yourself. Give yourself time to pour out the emotions that you’d been keeping for too long. Cry if you want. Get as wild as you need, responsibly. But always remember to pick yourself up after every little breakdown moments. ~~~ 14. New opportunities are scary. But the "status-quo bias" concept will do you more harm than good. Don't succumb to fear. Instead, use that fear as a motivation to conquer new opportunities and achieve personal, emotional, and professional growth. ~~~ 15. Be careful of flattery. Not everything you hear should affect how you see yourself. Appreciate people's praises, but be careful of their intentions. ~~~ 16. It's so easy to hate someone especially if you find similar people in your circle who does the same. The next time you think you hate someone, examine your insecurities. Maybe you don't hate that person, maybe that person only has something you dearly wanted in life and you automatically think that person doesn't deserve it more than you do. ~~~ 17. When you learn to handle your own insecurities, you'll be surprised to discover how you can learn so much from the people you thought you hated. ~~~ 5/16/2018 0 Comments 1am thoughtsI know you. You're confused. You don't really wanna shut people out of your life, you're just scared.
Attachment frightens you off that much. The idea of being effortlessly vulnerable around someone. The thought of being completely head over heels with someone, it bothers you. The possibility of being too happy you might want to forget everything real and bad. You have gone so completely fine without having anyone, so why does this person makes you feel like home? Why does this person makes you feel so giddy about having to walk on the sidewalk at 1am. Why does this person makes you so excited about getting off work on a Wednesday night. How could a mere thought of someone instantly lights up a smile as sweet as yours? Why'd you wanna hum an old love song right in the middle of a busy workday? Look at you. You are so caught up with the way this person speaks to your soul like no one ever has. I get it. You're falling too fast. Even faster than the speed of light, it hits you right at the center of your chest. It feels good, you know. But it also hurts. You're not used to this. You wouldn't know what to do. So, you brush it off. You ignore this rare but genuine connection because you're scared you might want it so badly after all. That maybe, if you'd start to accept it, there's no letting go. That if you'd go for it now, you'd go all the way. It's scary, and you are certainly not ready. #1amThoughts 12/31/2017 0 Comments Thank you, 2017.Thank you for a herky-jerky journey, 2017. I'd like to remember you more as a year of change and growth than a year of pain. You have made my world turn outside down and inside out. I may have lost something good but I also have found loads of better and greater things along the way. I may have associated myself with treacherous people who just took advantage of my strengths and weaknesses , but I also have found my way back to the real ones who were always there from the start. I may have suffered major repercussions of bad, awful choices and decisions from the previous year, but I also have learned valuable lessons and wisdom through it all. I may have missed out on the wondrous world outside for the first few months of 2017, but I also have found my way to the best places and had great adventures for the rest of the year. I may have felt the lowest and the worst, but I have found my realest self and have regained the lost fragments of my old, passionate self. I may have lost almost everything, but the rest of 2017 made me take control of my life once again and sort out things for the better. To all those who have helped me to self-healing and recovery, I couldn't thank you enough. To all those who never left my side even when I don't have anything left in me, thank you for staying. To all those new people in my life right now and to those who helped me live a new life, you have no idea how thankful I am to have met you. And most of all, to God who was there when I had no one. Thank you God for the blessing of a new beginning. May you continue to bless me and my family this 2018. Here's a run-through of my 2017 in photos.
April 2017 - Just after the school's graduation rites, I went to a secret out-of-town getaway. It was in Bantayan and I was with a friend and his whole workmates. I did that just so I could breath fresh air and escape everything I was facing back then. It helped actually. I was able to tell someone what I've been going through and even got some good advice. I had the chance to meet new people and talking to some of them gave me hope and a new perspective in life. I was able to reflect on a lot of things and was able to realize what I should do next.
12/1/2017 0 Comments KM Wonders: Best of KM 2017PART 1: Halloween Photo ContestI remembered during my job interview, Rene and Choy mentioned the two anticipated major events in the company - Halloween and Christmas Party. Something I really looked forward to since the first day they hired me. A few days ago, I was fooling around with Conie about how there's nothing Halloween-related stuff in the office. There were no creepy decors around the lobby, and nobody seemed to be wearing any Halloween-related costumes. I thought, maybe - just maybe, people are just not that into this thing anymore. Maybe everyone's just busy. Not until a moment later, we received an email about MedSpec Freaky Frightday Photo Contest 2017. Karen initiated a meeting and met with the rest of the KM members to plan the said photo contest. I don't have any plans to join. I always knew I'd do better behind the cameras and help with the preparation. But, I guess that's not how things would go for me this year. Apparently, as a newbie, I have no choice but to be one of our team's representatives. It was more exciting than scary because my squad also joined. It was a good avenue for everyone in the team to contribute their expertise to this project. Jennica, Ella, and Benj worked together to experiment with our faces and made us look scary-ish. Choy, Shin, RM, Jadhz, and the other producers/designers (even Rapi) helped with the pictorial to get the perfect shot since no editing is allowed. Karen and the rest of the members made our costumes, and everyone was all out in their support.
PART 2: Christmas Party: Mask and Mysteries PresentationWe definitely ended the year right with the back-to-back winning streak of KM. After the Halloween event, KM won again during the company-wide Christmas Party - Dance contest.
9/8/2017 0 Comments #Taboo"How to talk about things you don't want to talk about" Taboo Series talks about the things that we are often too afraid to talk about. The things that we may think are better to be kept to ourselves. One of the overpowering weakness of human soul is that it loves to cling to the past. We find it hard to let go and move on. We always have the tendency to cling unto the past, because it is something familiar and something predictable. And whenever we encounter something new, we get terrified. We tend to treat it as dangerous, and frustrating. Human as we are, we prefer the old instead of the new. We always let our past hold us back.
For those of you who are into an abusive relationship or simply keeping a company with a toxic person, probably everyone’s telling you to leave. But you can’t leave and you WON’T leave. You keep on giving excuses that this person will change. But the sad truth is, you are just afraid of leaving. You are just afraid that if you’ll leave, no one new will accept you. You are afraid that you cannot find another person for you. You are afraid that no one will come after that person and no one will replace that person. But one thing you should know – you deserve better. For breadwinners, family providers and those who are already working. Maybe you are stuck in a toxic job, or in a toxic working environment even a toxic boss and you had been contemplating for the longest time about quitting this job. But you think to yourself, “what if no other company will accept me?”, “what if I can’t find another job, whose gonna feed my family?” So you stick with that predictable, familiar toxic job and toxic working environment even if it’s keeping you miserable every single day. People, in nature, don’t like new things. We love to stick to our comfort zones. We love to get stuck, just like in our families. We have cycles, family patterns or traditions that are passed down from generation to generation. It could be a good thing, it could be trait of love, of respect, kindness, faithfulness and all the good stuffs. Or it could be something terrible, it could be drunkenness, abuse, addiction, adultery, gambling. And you feel you can’t stop it because it has been going along for the longest time. It has become a family culture, the norm and no way can you stop it. Now, let me ask you. Have you noticed something in your family too? Are there family patterns you observed, you wished you could change? A negative family patterns perhaps that you do not want to talk about? If yes, don’t worry. God is telling you “My child, do not cling on the past because I am doing something new in your family. I am doing something new in your life. Watch out for the new thing I am going to do, in fact it is already there. You just need to open your eyes.” GOD’S MESSAGE: I am starting a new thing. Your blessing will come. Your healing will start. 2/11/2017 0 Comments Old Scars and New Beginnings1/12/2017 0 Comments Chronic OverthinkerChronic over-thinking (noun): the inability to do anything without thinking of the repercussions of the aforementioned action; the act of pulling apart and analyzing everything and anything presented before you; how to ruin your life.
Chronic over-thinker (noun):) a person who is the cause of a majority of the problems in their own life. Over-thinkers are often the cause of their own problems. It is not above an over-thinker to worry and stress about something to the point where they cause themselves to get sick. In many cases, over-thinkers will pick and pull at an opportunity until they eventually ruin it, blowing it for themselves. Thoughts of the future encroach on thoughts of the present, finding a way to destroy any possibility of stress-free enjoyment, which is something a person not suffering from chronic over-thinking doesn’t understand. Over-thinking almost always, without fail, leads to over-exaggerating the severity of the situation at hand. Over-exaggerating leads to stress, anxiety and unhappiness. Over-thinkers struggle with the inability to live life to it’s fullest — and instead of seeking help, all they can do is analyze the effect this inability will have on the rest of their lives. Just posting this one just because this is so me. This is all me. Credits: http://thoughtcatalog.com/elissa-sanci/2014/05/anatomy-of-a-chronic-over-thinker/ |