I can’t even count the times I lied to myself that I have moved on from the fact that you were the subject of my poems for years. Though it hurts thinking that I have spent those leisure moments of mine thinking about metaphors that fit you perfectly, still I can’t elude the feeling of…
Read moreIt’s okay…
…to make your Facebook profile private — it’s hard to thank people falsely praising you. It’s okay to put your earphones on even if your music isn’t playing. You’re tired of giving attention and want to pretend you don’t hear them. It’s okay to post or share sad content. Do whatever you want with your…
Read moreOne day,
a time will come where you feel like you wanted to have a break at some point. It will come, perhaps, with the memories you longed ages ago — and it will feel real than the moment you wished for it. It will feel painful but it won’t cause a heartbreak. It will feel destructive…
Read moreStill, I owe it to the demons of my life.
You do not understand life in just a blink of an eye. It takes time, perhaps a forever to never, but it still guarantees you something even if it isn’t the one you expect. However, we couldn’t even know why it needs to be like that. To be harsh, a little bit of manipulative, a…
Read moreBut dear, at least, we met.
We don’t meet people by coincidence. We don’t meet them at a party, in a library or in a museum of rocks. We don’t meet them in hallways carrying books as if helping them when those fall from their hands is a deja vu. We don’t meet them by accident that we tend to believe…
Read moreI was broken when you first sent me fireworks…
… rather than butterflies. I was young and naive when I had my first skips of heartbeats. I was childish back then when we ended up carving our names under that old maiden tree. But I grew up, and I realized what you meant with your darkness that the facade of light absorbed all of…
Read moreDetach
You were never made just to please others with the things they thought you don’t have. It has always been like that. Perhaps, you’d be scarred if you choose their happiness over yours or you’d be selfish for choosing yourself instead. It would never be easy having the love you wanted for your own heart….
Read moreWhy Travel to Future?
The now is all there is No past and no future We like to think there is Oh! deceiving allure Don’t own that, don’t own this You’ll never know for sure Tomorrow life might cease Instead, learn to endure You’re dead, how come you missed? You missed the only cure You missed the…
Read moreThey say you will only experience freedom in college.
You can sleep what time you want. You can dance in your dorm as much as you can. You don’t have to follow the proper mealtime. You can do whatever you want because you are far from them, you are far from home. And I say, is it freedom? Or more like lonesome? No more…
Read moreTell me more about freedom — then tell me more about life, too.
Suffering doesn’t end that fast. Pain is always inevitable. Heartbreaks are translucent in all directions. You see, everything we do has distortions. And in opposite ways, we act for the things we never wanted to have. I guess that’s how we define life. We never wish for perfection if we’re already flawed. We never think…
Read moreYes, I am worthy, too.
Lately, I’ve realized how self-worth should be defined. It would always be something that brings out the victory while being the worst fighter of our own. It would always be about serenading tantrums — whatever it would bring, wherever our feet would take us. It would always be somehow realizing how better you can be…
Read moreI tried to find myself…
… in different places. In different embraces. In different roles. And in different lives. Until I realized, I was already lost, I don’t know where to go. And oh, I was so dumb. Why do I crave for paradise and different colors of the sky? Why do I want to fly to the moon? Why…
Read moreAnd yes, it is easier to write…
… your own fiction story using your imagination and of course your pen than writing your own life story. As we grow older, some people will try to be the author of our own life—your parents who want you to be a doctor but all you want is to publish stories, your cousins who want…
Read moreFor you to know,
… worrying waste more energy than any other things in this world—it gets heavier the longer we carry it. So Darling, take a deep breath, remain calm, and think of a thing that makes you happy. Always remember that you deserve to live a life of quietude, not a life of repent. Young or over-the-hill,…
Read moreAnd if ever someone tells you to stop living…
… tell them that you are a child of the universe and so they are, with that you deserve to be here, to live, to breathe and to have the life you want. Don’t let other people stop you from living. You were born because you worth no less than the stars and the moon…
Read moreComplexity
You can be happy. You can be sad. Don’t wish for a perfect one-dimensional life. Life is always changing. Love your emotions. Embrace them. But also, learn to control them. – jade Photo by Yesenia Sánchez
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