Do you know what it takes to get to where you want to go? Do you understand what’s at stake? Do you truly get what you need to give up if you’re going to make your dreams come true—dreams that are too impossibly big you’re too embarrassed...
Somewhere on the internet, a wise man in the guise of a random anonymous commenter on a random blog post said, “We grow up to become who we were when we were young.”I was a different person when I was young. First of all, I did not give a fuck. I did not...
I had to take a swab test before surgery. To be honest, I was anxious about it. Everywhere I turn, I hear people telling stories about how much it hurts. I see Hollywood celebrities wiping off tears in a corner because of the pain. I hear people telling me they almost...
Someone told me, “You don’t have to like the game but you have to learn to play by the rules and bend them slightly.” It floored me slightly. Someone finally understood what I’ve been doing my entire life, and they’ve been able to put it in a few words while I’m the...
A friend and I were talking about confidence earlier. How do you become more confident? Do you snap your fingers just like that and all of sudden become more confident? Or do you need to take years and years of diving deep and healing and owning your shit before you...
Someone once asked me, “Why, despite all its efforts at promoting tourism, can’t Ilocos Norte hold a candle to other provinces in the Philippines that are doing so much better?” I didn’t know the answer to that back then, but I may have an...
I used to question if I was being too much. Perhaps I was too intense. Perhaps people just wanted me to scale back a little. Perhaps I should chill a little, have pointless casual conversations with people a little, be a little bit less me a little. I no longer do. It...
2020 has been a good year for me. I noticed that, for people who unabashedly took responsibility for their circumstances despite the uncertainty the pandemic brought upon all of us, 2020 came with it unexpected opportunities, blessings, and amazing things happening...
I have a confession to make. I hate writing. I know. I’ve been going on and on about how writing is what I was meant to be doing and that if you’re not doing what you’re meant to be doing then you had better not expect much from life. But I hate it. I have to drag my...
I lost 20 pounds of weight since the start of the pandemic. All the extra weight I gained since I graduated from college more than a decade ago I lost in the last several months. That’s mostly thanks to… well… my version of eating less. It came off as a bit of a...
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