As we grow older, our interests change. Our values show more conspicuous molds. Our priorities shift from one thing to another as our goals progress into more realistic forms. We may have those few years in our lives when large circle of friends mean everything, when coffee dates and group travel mean happiness and peace…
The Epilogue
If I will ever die today, I hope you can write a eulogy of your disappointments of me. Before my spirit completely leave this world I was once mournful about, I wish I would see your face across the room, thanking God my life ended sooner to stop me from causing your resentments. I wish…
The Spark
The future is always uncertain, but I’d like to see you holding on to hope tighter than you ever did before. The past year hasn’t been the year for you, neither has the one before it, but there is nothing left to do but hope that this coming year is where everything turns the other…
Try Not To Ruin You
You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. Please stop defending your choices. Some people in your life might have set a standard for you to follow or might have expected you to act in a certain manner but, darling, you are the only one who’s gonna live with all your choices. I hope you…
Broodings
A hard time is a long, seemingly endless period of difficulties. It makes us feeble and brave, humble and cruel, weak and tough. An ironic season of life. It makes us cry – a lot, but unbreakable after. There is never a way to ever be fully prepared for it. You’ll never know you’ve always…
A Graveyard of Buried Hopes
When I was younger, I envisioned myself as a great writer. It turns out, I am not even good enough to be accepted for an unpaid writing job. When I was younger, I always thought I was gonna be someone my parents and other relatives would be proud of, someone they would be stoked to…
A Hollow Room for A Hollow Heart
This might not be the best time to write this but no one cares, anyway. I’m sitting in a corner of a hollow room, similar to my heart, surrounded by suits and ties. For some reasons, I decided to be an executive secretary or a “corporate alalay”. So, as of now, I have spent nearly…
Our Untimely Perfect Timing
Everyone’s timeline is different. We’ve been told that countless times, and yet, we keep looking at each others’ lives and get utterly, horribly depressed by not having the same. Like a gradeschooler peeking at our seatmate’s test paper, already knowing we’ve been given different sets of exams, and still wonders why our answers differ from…
Today, Your Life Begins…Again
Pick yourself up from the floor. Dry your tears. Fix your hair. You have to remember that your life doesn’t end here. These mistakes that keep shaming and knocking you down doesn’t always have to be stronger than you. There are a lot of things you can do that they have not discovered yet. They…
Happy Birthday to Me?
Today is my birthday and I am sad. A gunshot or a phone buzz, which sounded the same to me, woke me up early. It was a birthday greeting, my first birthday greeting, and I am sad. I washed my face and watched the sun blind me or greet me, as it peeped through my…
Sojourns of a Wayfarer 