Life
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Love and hospitality
I find it difficult to be hospitable without love. Because if someone would say they can be hospitable without it, they must be play-acting. It takes love to look beyond inconveniences and sacrifices. Read more
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Holiday buzz
We feel the spirit of celebration, and everyone seems extra friendly these days. With Christmas songs playing in the background, you can’t help but lighten up your mood and surrender to the rhythm of the holidays. It becomes a good excuse to relax what’s been stiff throughout the working days, your thoughts. And like children,… Read more
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Selfish kids
After serving my niece her favorite dish, she began to put almost everything on her plate (more than what she could finish), leaving everybody else almost nothing. She is five. It seems that selfishness was the default. But she doesn’t know it. More likely, she doesn’t understand (yet) what it means to share a limited… Read more
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What day is it?
How many childish ways have we lost growing up? Perhaps, our different circumstances molded us and changed us until we became the selves we uphold today. But how fascinating can children evoke emotions we might have forgotten along the way. As my niece keeps dragging me to a calendar we mounted up on the wall… Read more
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Eyes on the prize
Nothing is too tiring when you’ve set your heart on the goal. It even feels like you can do so many things with your time. Without purpose, it is easy to stray away and come up with many excuses. But when your eyes are on the prize, there’s no time to waste. Read more
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Busy hands quiet the mind
No wonder we could spend hours doom-scrolling, not thinking of everything else we could do aside from staring blankly at our screens. Busy hands quiet the mind. And it’s fascinating how we often run away from our thoughts, drowning them with information we don’t necessarily have to know. I remember how I allowed myself to… Read more
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Who would take the photo?
We like taking photos, don’t we? It’s like whatever we do, and wherever we go, we mostly take photos of them to remember them. Taking photos (and videos) is becoming our lifestyle to archive memories. And we also like putting them in the cloud managed by giant social media companies because we enjoy their services… Read more
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