Life

“Mama, look at me! Look at me, Mama!” My three-year-old niece kept on nagging me while showing off how she tossed her balloon up and down. When I was her age, I thought adults don’t want to have fun. (Such dull creatures.) Now that I am the adult looking into the child’s eyes, I realized Read more

It’s easy to wear nice and pretend to look like somebody else these days, where you dress up to portray the character you’d like to play. Whether you wear fast fashion or expensive clothes, you have a picture in your head which you hope you appear to be. But after the dress-up and pretense, you’re Read more

… doesn’t mean you should. You have to admit that it’s easy to tell your today selves that your future selves can do everything you want to accomplish. Why? Because you don’t often consider your future selves to be the same person you are now. So as you begin the year with so many possibilities, Read more

When mistakes pile up, it’s quite challenging to solve them at once (especially when your integrity is at stake or facing a tight deadline). Here are the things some (if not most) of us do: Let them stack up and crumble on their own, dragging you with them (because it’s paralyzing to think about solving Read more

You’d be lying if you say nothing has changed. If you’re being honest, you have changed a lot over the past ten years. Simply put, you’re never the same person from ten years ago. Read more

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

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