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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: positivity: how it becomes toxic
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. And that got me thinking, is this really positivity…
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Continue reading →: city life, bright lights
Young and naive, I was when opportunities knocked no more provincial life, my own roots I wanted blocked to meet the glitz and glam the city life would bring skipping to the bright lit streets I’d sing the stores in my fantasies, I finally could see shops for books and…
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Continue reading →: videos of old people make me feel feels
I’ve recently come across a video where a grandchild asked her grandfather “what’s the secret to having long life?”, and straight up he answered, “marry a good woman.” The post continued to show several pictures of when the couple were younger. I don’t know about you but I’m an absolute…
