Here I am writing (again, after how many months!) on my hotel balcony in Tagaytay about what I gained, lost and discovered in 2022. Frankly speaking, 2022 was all about academics with a sideline of friend meetups, quick vacay trips and a weird obsession of ordering coffee outside despite my bountiful stash of 3-in-1 coffees in our pantry. I also tried many drinks this year (okay, it was mainly alcohol, but “drinks” might be a better word for it lol). It was liberating, knowing that I am the eldest in the family, and my parents are slowly accepting and adapting that I am finally entering in the semi-adult world–where college students cope up with their frustrations in academics with vodka or tequila on their side (a hero, I would say).

They say that your third year in college is living and surviving in hell–and hell they are right. All of the subjects I’m taking now are all major subjects, which are prerequisites to the subjects that I would be taking in the next terms. Moreover, since we were transitioning into a face to face classes, (thank God!) I was still adapting to the transition because my whole college life were just in front of my laptop. Addition to that is that I need to commute from my house to school! Commuting here in the Philippines is also a living hell.

Steering away from academics, I fell in love with reading once again. It was nice because I really had a hard time reading non-academic books since I started college, but I made a promise that during summer vacation, I will try to read a book once again. And sure I did! I discovered that I enjoyed reading books with fantasy/romance/Eastern genres. (And still planning to read more this 2023! Yay for Asian authors!)

In terms of love, I love my life, my friends, my loved ones and myself. I am still trying to love myself a little more (Cliche, I know, but here we are!). Anyway, romantic love was not part of my 2022 but I don’t know what would my 2023 holds… (Let’s see!)

To end, I made a video containing snippets of my 2022! To everyone who made a part of my 2022, thank you so much! I hope y’all still part of my 2023. 🤍

Ad meliora.

To the greatness of us all. | 5.1.22 To the nights where my mind is filled with more ache than thoughts, I tell her I will hold her for however many times she needs she is needed here our home together just like this and much more, I comfort her with my dreams we watch the two sun’s rise to remind us we have always also been the sun’s in our lifetimes, we sit in silence listening to the air make…