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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • People always affect people even in subtle ways

    As we prepared for our flight home, there seemed to be many things that need to be addressed. And in the time of COVID-19, it means that we need to process documents and do swab tests to travel inter-island. But it doesn’t end there. We also needed to exchange goodbyes to people we’ll be leaving… Read more

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  • The irascible person

    We’ve all met that person in one form or another. They are the kind of person who is quickly aroused to anger. One thing I can think about is that a mature person is not an irascible person. And that’s what I’ve got to say today. Read more

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  • Building habits and a new hairbrush

    Building habits and a new hairbrush

    With the year spent mostly within my room’s comfort, I don’t spend much time brushing my hair. Mainly because I have the regular comb you use in the shower, and it never inspires me to make hair brushing a habit. As much as I wanted to have detangled hair all day long, I never had the… Read more

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  • Bad attitudes and pointing fingers

    It’s easy to call out other people about their bad attitudes while having bad attitudes yourself. And you may even tell other people how horrible they are without seeing yourself as terrible at par. I had this encounter with a man one time who is openly proud of his brashness and lack of self-control. He… Read more

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  • Back on the farm

    Back on the farm

    Growing up in a small city, I always wondered how it’s like to live in a big one, with tall buildings everywhere you look at. But now that I am living in the metro with almost concrete everywhere, I can’t help but wish to be back home. To be away from the never-ending noise and… Read more

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  • 2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009

    History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment… Read more

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  • It’s not all about you

    When we were children, we look forward to life, thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. We believe we could be this or that. It’s all about what we could become. But now that I am in my early adulthood, I realized that life is not “all about you.” Maturity begins when you start to… Read more

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