Knowing what it means to take the big leap — “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood / And sorry I could not travel both.” These lines from Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken was my state when I entered senior high. I chose a strand under-assessed, and because of that, I lost the chance to realize my actual wants…

I was listening to Taylor Swift’s “Cornelia Street” when, while scrolling through the lyrics, I suddenly thought of the old days. It’s unusual and weird to think about how certain places and relationships I used to spend time before have now changed. You might also share moments that, when looking…

A lesson from Mindset by Dr. Carol S. Dweck and The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson — Along life, we’ve met people that made us say “wow” a few times because of their intellectual capabilities or achievements. We’ve had moments where undeniably, even though for a moment, we wish we’re them. It is commonly believed that the greatest minds are those that can handle every situation they’re…

“How could a total stranger know you better than the people you’ve known your entire life?” Almost nearing adulthood, a book about exploring ourselves and the world around us has been perfect. It’s renewing to follow a narrative about a boy following conventional ways of living without really defying and…

Like grasping a mist, you can only get so much of what comes but never the whole. In our journey in this world, we are like blindfolded men in a vast blank plane, with our arms extended, tapping the empty air for a sense of direction, impatient to gain certainty…

We held hands, I thought: this might never happen again what stabbed me was the glimpse of you stretching to thousands because it was the last and I knew it beforehand.

­ “Set over or against something that is at the other end or side of an intervening line or space” is how Merriam-Webster defines the word “opposite.” Opposites contradict. Good can never be bad, right can’t be wrong, black contrasts white, and so on. With nothing much to do on…

clocks on the walls, consume my being decay my longing end my aches loosen my screws break the chains of time burn these empty lines dead within these rhymes

gumagaan ang dibdib sa pagtibok na walang pigil binaliwala ang panganib ng damdaming suwail nagtanim ng poot namulaklak ang galit puso’y pilit na iginigiit ‘di na muling lalapit tuwing gabi’y sasapit napapaisip kung bakit sa pag-ibig muling kakapit kung sakit lang ang nakakamit nagdurugong dibdib ‘di makaraos-raos sakit na ‘di matapos-tapos gumagaan habang umaagos