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Continue reading →: Peace for a Worrier: From Lockdowns to Living AgainHave you ever had those days when you cannot stop thinking about a task at hand, a bill you need to pay before it’s due, a conversation you just had with a colleague or a friend, and many other events that may have happened in your day? You are not…
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Continue reading →: RECAP: A Year in Japan“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.” -Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles This is a few weeks late from my actual first anniversary of living in Japan. I haven’t written much about anything…
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Continue reading →: Morning VisitWake up earlier than everyone else, I need to get up and prepare breakfast for them. I love spending time with my friends. After all, there are two best things in my life: good friends, good food. I always enjoy cooking for my friends. I think that, generally, I like…
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Continue reading →: Acceptance and letting goEvery new day opens up opportunities to gain experiences. Each one presents a distinct phase in our lives that we can’t see clearly when it happens. but would make better sense in the future. Even the seemingly missed chances which broke our hearts before could have been blessings for that…
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Continue reading →: Writing exercise: Breathing life (again) to my ideasSa ilalim ng liwanag ng buwan, nakaupo sa may lumang pahingahan sa may dalampasigan ang isang babae. Tahimik ang paligid at tanging ang paghampas ng mga alon ang maririnig. Ngunit pagkalipas ng ilang saglit ay sumasabay na sa awit ng dagat ang mahinang paghikbi ng babae. Sa oras na ito…
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Continue reading →: RemedyHello! Thanks for everything. I know it may not mean much to you but it’s very important to me. Being left here under the dark, cold, foreign, and scary hole all my life, I never knew your world. Yet you chose to give me light and let me out of…
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Continue reading →: Love is RelativeWhen I love someone, does that person have to be from the opposite sex? Does it have to be a romantic form of attraction to consider it LOVE? A lot of people try to find their ONE TRUE LOVE, even if it will cost them a lifetime of searching. Could…
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Continue reading →: Dinner is ServedWelcome home! Mama always greeted me that way. Why can’t you do that as well? See, the sky is dark now and I worked so hard today; a warm greeting would lighten up my day. But I guess you are too busy with your favorite show. You are kicking the…
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Continue reading →: Starting Again: Writing ExerciseIn spite of having all the mental preparation in writing, it couldn’t seem so easy to begin going back to that old self of mine who could easily finish a short story in one sitting. Now, there are just too many things, too many ideas, and real life concerns that…
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Continue reading →: RestWhen there is just so much you can handleYou curl up to a deep sleep to manageThe grueling pain that you couldn’t showOne by one, little by little, time and againYou pick each piece and bear a smileTo be a light to help the love of your lifeBut, there is…
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