Living through Letters
A few days ago, I almost got involved in a tragic accident: a group of pedestrians blindly crossed the street and I nearly ran them over. I pulled on the brakes hard which made me lose my balance and caused me to fall. For some unknown reason, right in that moment of despair and desperation, …
"If you want to be a lawyer, you must work hard. You must read read read," sabi ni Maestra kalagitnaan ng recitation. Naalala ko yung unang klase namin sa kanya. Wala akong ideya kung ano ang magiging itsura niya. Ang sabi, fresh Bar passer raw, ngayong taon lang pumasa. Di ko naman ma picture out …
Have you seen the old man on the street corner? The one with the lose spectacles? my mother asked. I turned my eyes off the road for awhile to see the old man, I recognized him as a tricycle driver from my brothers' school. He was thin and frail, he was wearing a blue polo …
For the first time since I started to try my hand in writing, I was kept awake by a crippling thought of self-doubt. Am I good enough? Can I keep moving forward? What if I couldn't get any better? I felt weak. I felt vulnerable. I felt that there was a wall in front of …
He was about my age and about my size. The boy first approached us while we were eating at a cottage at a spring resort. "Champorado mo, Ma'am. Sir." he said, "Init pa." Champorado. Chocolate porridge. Still hot. I declined. I watched him as he went on his way, selling Champorado to other resort-goers in …
Just this morning, I rode a tricycle driven by a Marine Biologist. When I asked him why he's only driving a tricycle, he answered that he was already tired of life on a boat. "Where are you heading?" he asked me. MSU, I said. "Ali." Come. He asked me what year I'm in as soon as …
It was past eight in the evening when we finished eating dinner and decided to take a walk. I like walking in my home city, I’d certainly like taking a walk in another. I always believed that taking a walk is good. Lets you see more stuff; Lets you meet more people. It was proven …
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