jessa

Reflections on becoming

Life

  • 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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  • When your beloved cries

    When you see your beloved hurting, you feel the hurt too. Every tear shed is like tiny pin pricks going beneath your skin, pain burning in your insides. That’s why when they do cry, you shy away because the hurt just gets into you. It would have been much better if you were only in Read more


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