words are cheap, the effects are expensive
Nothing aesthetic or poetic here, I’ll just freely write this piece because it’s been in my head for a while and I want to let it out. The thing is, people like me who have been suffering for years with acne have feelings, too. I don’t know why people blessed enough to have never experienced […]
positivity: how it becomes toxic
Author’s note: This is reposted in 2025 but was written in May 2, 2020 Being in the middle of a pandemic and having problems prior to this, it’s more common than usual for us to be seeing people urging us to ‘be positive’ or ‘think of good thoughts’ to distract us from our troubled minds. […]
when I’m gone
I know this is a grim headline for a blog but I wanted to write down things I want to happen when I’m gone since there’s difficulty expressing them while I am living. funny thing. I wrote something like this in February of 2021 but I stupidly deleted my notes cache So here we go […]
i went through my emails and relived my old self
A/N: This post is re-published in Feb 2026, but was written in a previous blog site in 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I would like to preface this by saying that reports show around 17.7% are now unemployed here in my country. Unfortunately, I currently belong in that statistic. I have been giving out my […]
will things be okay?
Hello. I’ve been out of it for a very long time because of so many things going down in my personal life. To give a quick recap, I went weeks looking for a new job and resigned from my previous one, only to have my mental health go down forcing me to quit from it […]
life.
Life certainly has many ups and downs. As cliche as it sounds, she can’t help but agree that this is reality. This is the truth. She spends a huge chunk of her life striving to reach her goals, her dreams, her visions. She works hard, sometimes more than eight hours a day, beats herself up […]
An Open Letter To My Anxiety
[Author’s note: I wrote this when my face broke out with acne a few years ago. Posting this here to tell people like me who have cystic acne, who have social anxiety, who have many insecurities that you are beautiful and that you are not alone.] Dear Anxiety, I wish I could say it was […]
Am I Beautiful?
[Note: reposting this because I deleted the original post from my other blog.] For years and years, I’ve listened to society Make up, perfect skin, skinny body – that is beauty So I’ve tried and fit myself in these societal constructs But it just didn’t work, I didn’t make the cut If you’re out of […]