Art

1.) Focus on your studies and do well in all your endeavors.

✎ Giving one hundred percent with everything you are going to do.

2.) Take care of your health and hygiene.

✧ Taking good health measures by eating healthy food and staying clear of junkfoods. Tidying oneself is also vital.

3.) Establish good communication and relation with your parents or guardian.

✔︎ Listen and be obedient to your parents or guardian.

4.) Think a lot before doing something.

☁︎ Be extra cautious with your decisions in life, always keep in mind that you have to rationalize your thoughts before doing something drastic.

5.) Choose to do the right thing.

✌︎ Always think with an open mind not an open heart, do not be deceived by your emotions and carry on with what is right.

6.) Do your best to resist temptations, bad acts, and earthly pleasures.

☠︎ Avoid temptations at all costs. What feels so good is not always what is right. Keep your morality in check.

7.) Respect yourself.

❣︎ Always value your self-respect. When you know how to respect yourself, others will follow and respect you for who you are as well.

8.) Be prepared to be answerable or accountable for your actions and behaviors.

An Open Letter for my Significant Other

Dearest Nanay,

Almost 18 years since I came into this world yet you still act as if I’m still in need of complete care and attention. It makes me happy and worried at the same time because in taking time to care for all of us, you tend to strain yourself to the point of exhaustion. I am grateful for everything you have done and say you will do for me, you have been there since the first time I learned to walk and talk yet now I am starting to leave the nest. You see this as an unfortunate sign that I might come to harm although I am fully capable of handling things on my own now. The lessons and wisdom you have teached and shared with me will always linger even as time passes. I just hope that there’s more time for me to make it up to you in this life. I too am also afraid of you coming to harm or being put in a dangerous situation, so please listen to me sometimes. A world without you isn’t a world at all. I love you and I would go to the ends of the Earth for you.

My most embarrassing moment

So when I was in 7th Grade, I had a huge blown-out fight with my bestfriend. We refused to talk to one another for several weeks due to a misunderstanding, I will not elaborate since it’s a sensitive topic.

Time passed and I missed talking to her so bad that I gave in and tried reaching out to her, but I didn’t know how. I wasn’t good at words and speaking head on if I needed to express my emotions. But misfortune came in the disguise of luck when we were tasked to make a poem for our English subject. I was ecstatic since it meant I could express myself without having to say it out loud. I could ask for forgiveness without having to talk and address the problem we had.

Come to think of it, my plan sucked. Since the problem we had was a sensitive topic, I crossed lines I shouldn’t have just to feed my pride. I poured my heart out on two separate poems, the first one being the project and the second one was just by my need to say what I wanted to say to her without actually telling her gAh what was I thinking?! But then again, I wasn’t.

Our adviser was the one who poked around my poem infront of everyone since it was a project and it was my fault that I passed it in the first place, so everyone eventually found out that it was a poem about forgiveness. I could see that my bestfriend was slipping from me with every word, and I was slipping down a slope where I could go nowhere else but down. A crowd gathered around outside the room to listen as well, some higher grade levels and teachers to see what the fuss was about. They made us hug infront of everyone which was embarrassing, since I knew that I wasn’t truly forgiven and I made matters worse.

Now

This is me now. Luckily, I’ve somehow outgrown my ways of dragging myself down further. As the years went on, I slowly realized that the only opinion that should have mattered to me was of my own.

I drew strength from the fact that I was loved and appreciated, not by many but by the people who matter the most to me.

Although, sometimes it still gets to me, the part of me that I can’t ignore, the ones that I abhor, yet it was finally okay.

For now I knew that I was still a work in progress.

Then

Here i am without a single care in the world, along the ages of 8-12. I did not completely enjoy my elementary and pre-junior high school days as a student. Ever since I gained weight, I was exposed to bullying at an early age and boy was it tough (இ﹏இ`｡) and since then, I’ve always hated my appearance and I continue to do so.