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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • The young person in the room

    Have you ever had the feeling of cluelessness the moment you entered a room filled with older people who seem to know what they are supposed to do? And at the back of your head, you can’t help but think, “What am I doing here?” Instead of hoping to be somewhere else, where you feel… Read more

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  • Letter No. 1

    Dear reader from the future, I hope you are well today. I can only imagine where you are reading this from, but it may not be what I think where you would be. Mainly because my mind is limited to the images I conjure from my memories. If only I can know where you are… Read more

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  • Ability creates opportunity

    First, let us read the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14‭-‬30 (NASB1995): “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own… Read more

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  • Plans and excuses

    Have you ever experienced a point in your life where you simply know what to do? Did those plans come vividly to your mind? But now that you finally can do something about them, did you commit to an action plan? Often, it’s so easy to identify what should be done. When it’s time to… Read more

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  • Imagination and career shift

    Sometimes I wonder how, as children, you can see things that are not there. I’d like to think that all children, regardless of family income, are imaginative one way or another. Take, for example, my niece handed me a chunk of orange puzzle pieces one afternoon. She told me that it was a pizza with… Read more

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  • How to spot fake news

    Being on social media these days, you can’t help but notice unproductive ideas just floating around. Because they are up for grabs, people who never thought about thinking through whatever they consume from the media becomes vulnerable to come up with absurd and unproductive reasoning. The author of Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America… Read more

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  • Isolation, alienation

    Going home in the time of COVID 19 is challenging. How so? You are required to obey rules that are sometimes absent in so many places that need them the most. Say an airport, for example. Depends on what airport you depart from and arrive in: either of them, both, or none of them see… Read more

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jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

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