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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Knowledge isn’t enough

    In my 20s, I was all about acquiring knowledge and I pursued it through graduate studies (because I was convinced that undergraduate degrees were not enough for a woman to compete in a male-saturated field of engineering), hours of countless training, and the acquisition of certifications that were often too many (or irrelevant). Oh how Read more

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  • Online aggression

    I find more people angry online than in person and I don’t know why. Because it’s election season in the Philippines, the occasional angry mob has become a 24-hour online presence and it has been challenging to drown out all the noise and think clearly about the values and principles our parents and well-meaning teachers Read more

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  • Living in selflessness

    I constantly have to remind myself that I am the adult now. Sometimes, I still feel like being in the in-between—the chaos between a surf and the shore—tossed and turned into places familiar and unknown. While the routine keeps me sane, not pushing the boundaries makes everyday too predictable and boring, safe but hollow. The Read more

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  • Can you imagine a future of eternal winter like in Snowpiercer?

    I first heard about solar geoengineering from one of the futures scenarios at the Urgent Optimists, where we were tasked to imagine waking up to a future where every day is winter after some governing body implemented a solar geoengineering program. Then, I read about it from The Ministry of the Future (a climate fiction Read more

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  • Pitfalls of spreading yourself thin

    Wanting to do everything all at once will only make your life a frustrating one. I used to be a fan of multitasking because I thought it was an insignia of productivity, being able to finish multiple unaligned tasks in a day, a week, a month, or at least for a whole project duration. Multiple Read more

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  • Letter no. 46

    Dear reader from the future, Writing this as a 30-year-old (oh how I really like being 30), I realized how stubborn and even prideful I was in my 20s. I thought that ideals were enough to change the part of my world, graduating from one reality (academe) to another (workplace). I was too hot to Read more

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  • Resisting the urge to respond immediately

    What I learned to part ways with after seeking and engaging in creative activities is the idea that “messaging somebody entitles us to receive immediate response” because we are no longer high schoolers messaging one another, tethered to our phones all day long. I have trained myself for years (since I got ahold of a Read more

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jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

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