To those who feel like giving up

    

    Choose to live. Carry on and endure. Stay alive for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day or a bad year. You are a future bursting at the seams of possibilities. You are another self in the future, gazing back in gratitude for all the loss that you managed to keep.

    Let this be your wake-up call that it is perfectly fine for us to feel this way– to sink in despair yet despite that & the adversities that we face, things will end up falling back into place. Things will get brighter as long as we continue to fight our battles, establishing our own foundation of a genuine support system. Just hang on even to the faintest tinge of light that we could encounter amidst many obstacles that we'll stumble upon along the way.

Choose to live, fighter.

To our little angel

to our little angel,

knoa gabriel

we know you fought well

we may be mourning

but we're beholden

that you're now in a place that's golden

our fighter, who's apparently also our teacher,

we will long for you

but we are happy that you were once part of our lives

and you will always hold a special place in our hearts

each day and beyond

To you who keep on insisting that you've strayed so far from who you used to be

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There was one time when I've watched a question and answer portion of a beauty pageant, and the question was: If you were given a chance to time travel, would you rather go back to the past to correct your mistakes or have a glimpse of the future and see what would you become? 

That question lingered in my thoughts up until today that I'm now sixteen (mind you, I've watched that when I was still in elementary). I haven't gone through many challenges and trials that I could really share and get inspiration from, but I've made an adequate amount of decisions at my age which did not all satisfied me. There were regrets, there were dismays and disappointments--the 'I wish I've done this instead. I wish... I could turn back time and redo my decisions, even the smallest ones, it can still change a thing and make a difference.' 

But you know what I've realized when I thoroughly thought about it? I have dreams, many at that. I have doubts and uncertainty. What if I won't be able to grasp them? What if I'm not really meant for the field that I've been wanting to be part of? What if I fail? or I make a wrong judgment that will completely shift my entire life unlike what I expected it to be? 

And now, I've come up with an answer to that question. I would neither choose to go back to the past and correct my mistakes nor visit the future, instead, I will use those mistakes that I've committed as a guide towards righteousness and secure the direction of my future. What is the correlation? 

Here's the thing, we mustn't attempt to go back to a past that no longer exists, or seize upon a future that is forever beyond our reach but should instead peregrinate along our inner axes to a more meaningful part of our present selves. 

You did change. And the person you think you were before, the person you used to be, as much as you think, is never coming back. Every little thing you do contributes a great part to your improvement because there is always a rapid abandonment of the last version of yourself. 

So to you who keep on insisting that you've strayed so far from who you used to be,

Stop worrying about what has changed you. Be progressive and think about the present. Be the change and ride your own series of  'straying so far from who you used to be'.

To those who wait

To those who wait,

Admit it, whenever you follow a line for something, you couldn't wait in a line without tapping your toes and blowing out sighs that suffocated the entire bagel store with your own irked breath. But you couldn't do anything but to wait.

But not anymore.

Patience is a virtue. I concur. However, it doesn't apply to entirety of occurrence in every event in your life.

Hindi minamadali ang mga bagay-bagay, pero hindi mo rin dapat hinihintay na isubo nalang sa'yo ang mga oportunidad. Patience comes with great hardships, an ample of perseverance, and vast determination.

You hold onto the famous quotation: "Good things come to those who wait" which is completely wrong. I roll my eyes every time I hear those lines which people use as a defense to justify their laziness. Little did you know, that's not even the full quote. 

The full quote is: Good things come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Paano 'yan? Kung ikaw ay isa sa mga taong naghihintay nalang dahil sa paniniwala sa kasabihang iyon, kawawa ka dahil tira-tira nalang ng mga taong determinadong makuha ang gusto nila ang mapupunta sa'yo. Papayag ka ba na ganoon?

Folks, we're supposed to hustle with what we want. Don't settle on always anticipating and putting yourself on hold, thinking that it is the opportunities that will come after you.

So to those who wait,

Stop waiting, instead, chase your desires and inhabit your moments. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

To you

Thank you for visiting my site. Welcome! This will be the place of my open letters about diverse concerns for different people.

July 22, 2020

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