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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Keeping up with changes

    It might be difficult, but it’s essential. Why? Because if you choose to be rigid despite the forces that work against you, you might lose. That instead of reaching the very people you seek you serve, you end up unable to keep up with their evolving need. But keeping up with changes doesn’t mean that… Read more

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  • Keep moving forward

    Is it possible to long for things that never happened but could have? I think it is. And making it a habit is a sure way to make you unhappy in the now. Making you feel miserable about the choices you should have chosen but didn’t. Yes. You’ll never know what Path A could have… Read more

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  • Repurpose

    From a hardware store, loaded with some cement and steel bars, I told the tricycle driver how cool his tricycle was. No, it didn’t look brand new at all. In fact, it looked dilapidated and old. But what amazed me was as a mode of public transport, he already has the ropes ready to cater… Read more

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  • Letter no. 9

    Dear reader from the future, How is the supply chain going? I wonder what it’s like to live in your time. Because I lived in a time where COVID-19 stopped the world on its tracks. It’s not uncommon to hear about borders closing from time to time these days. And even at the time of… Read more

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  • I never thought growing up could be this humbling

    I can remember people from childhood who easily look upon peers that seem to be of lower financial status than they are. That’s the kind of environment I grew up in here in the Philippines. Probably, I will never forget how they look at you, sneer at your clothes, and snide at you when they… Read more

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  • Success, failure, and living life

    “The difference between success and failure–between a life of fulfillment and a life of frustration–is how well you manage the challenge and making meaning in your life.” — Life is in the Transitions We used to think that life is black and white, such that there is either success or failure, fulfillment or frustration, and… Read more

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  • The invisible deadline

    “We’re all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no longer exists and beating ourselves up for not achieving it.” — Life is in the Transitions At some point, you’ve been in the same situation, one way or another. Worse is when you are born into a generation that suggests a linear life. That after successfully… Read more

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Everyday Stories, Lived

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