Life
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Not looking, not seeing
One time, my mother asked me if I watered the plant in my room. I replied that I didn’t because I didn’t know if it even needed some watering. Hearing myself respond made me think how my attitude is rippling out into every action I do each day. And maybe, you are on the same Read more
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Letting go and moving forward
There are so many transitions that take place in one’s life. Knowing your career path is one. But here’s what I learned. You cannot move forward if you cannot let go of what needs to be let go. Because often, they are the invisible strings that keep you from going to where you’re supposed to Read more
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Look at me (attention and permission)
“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
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Dress-up and pretense
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
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Just because you can…
… 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