Perfect love is accepting the imperfection

Someone wrote this on my college yearbook; “… is a hopeless romantic. He sees through everything and composes verses in his mind. He talks about the great passions and immersed in them. He is a poet mincing words, evoking feelings, hiding himself…” A hopeless romantic? It was not because there was an object of beauty [...]

Relationships and getting old

It’s scary when I see kids growing up so fast right now, kids I just have cuddled & carried before, now already talking like an adult & almost already towering me. And here I am, still almost the same. The developments in them can’t help me but to ask myself where are my own developments? [...]

My being 31

How true the saying that age is just a number, it is still a number. Not to everybody but to some people at least. For me, yeah, it is just a number, and yeah, it is also a big deal sometimes, especially during my “hormonally imbalanced” days. Hehehe. Whatever that means… My 31st year had [...]

Unconditional love

It is always easy to say that we can love unconditionally without having to expect anything from someone we love. But the truth is, loving unconditionally is very difficult. Love can drive us to a point where we start not to care about anything but just loving a person, inspite of his or her infidelity, [...]

Appreciating Our Past

It is easy to be negative about past mistakes and unhappiness. But it is much more healing to look at ourselves and our past in the light of experience, acceptance, and growth. Our past is a series of lessons that advance us to higher levels of living and loving. The relationships we entered, stayed in, [...]