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Continue reading →: Guilty Pleasures
Note: I found this old piece in my stash of papers Me and my mom are mall rats. We love the mall even during the days we are broke. You know you’ll feel bad after, but you still do it anyway. When you’re in the mall you feel so happy…
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Continue reading →: On Self-Compassion
I’ve been thinking recently about self-compassion. In the past I had a realization that I had been wanting to cultivate self-confidence but it seemed too hard to maintain. Then I read or watched something and it talked about self-compassion. Either it argued that self-compassion is easier than self-confidence or I…
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Continue reading →: On Comparing Yourself to a Beggar
Social comparison is bad for your mental health, but what if I compare myself to a beggar? Would that make me feel better? I’m “better” than him because I don’t live in the streets. But as I see his worn-out shirt, his scraggly hair, his soot-covered legs, I just feel…
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Continue reading →: Obvious Child Review
Spoiler alert! Don’t read this review if you haven’t watched the movie. When I heard about Obvious Child, the thing that got me interested was it was a storyline about a woman who had an abortion and was happy about it. It was different from the expected harrowing tale of…
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Continue reading →: Are we vacationing on grabbed land? (About the Film Wash Out)
Spoiler alert! I watched a movie made by my friends Herbie and Shine. (Herbie also wrote an essay about the same topic) Entitled Wash Out, the film talks about a coastal town in Sicogon, Iloilo whose land was grabbed by Ayala Corporation. There were several poigniant parts of the film…
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