Year: 2025
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Dear reader from the future, It’s easy to dwell in the present and make decisions based on what you know now. But even though you don’t feel like anything would change at all, you might not believe how different things will be a decade from now. The people you think less of might end up…
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Been thinking about discipline lately, mostly because I feel like I am losing grasp of it, especially in moments when I surrender my autonomy to mindless media consumption as if saying to the tech, “Here are all my human capabilities, take them down to the drain.“ These days, lacking discipline means losing control over what…
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Assumptions kept me from seeing what was possible, as they dictated non-existent boundaries. The moment I decided to explore the edges, I discovered no harm in crossing over the imaginary wall I had built. Like me, I guess there are times when you do not try to do something new just because you assume you…
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As I was talking with a friend recently, we both recalled the time when we wondered about accessing academic publication opportunities during our master’s studies because we both graduated from universities that did not make it easily accessible to us. Neither of us even knew where to begin. We never had any idea that academic…
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I recall traveling through the same streets I’d walked my entire life and feeling like something was calling me beyond the familiar roads of my small city. I used to tell myself that I was made for something more, bound to do greater things, and destined to leave my small city and become a global…
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We know what we want. And we want to live comfortably. However, comfort often comes at a price. In the Philippines, a flood-free area with a peaceful neighborhood is expensive, which adds to the total cost of living. Maintaining our well-being also requires money, such as an occasional treat to a body spa or a…
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Sometimes, I go through a writing slump. It often starts small—a day or two of feeling unmotivated to write anything, of opening my drafts without typing anything new. But when I do fall into these slumps, I often fall deep. Even when I feel the outpouring of thoughts within me, a part of me doesn’t…
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