Tag: blogging
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When the world kills your creativity
I haven’t been able to write lately. I have wanted to write my reflections on things going on in the world and in my personal life, but every time I’ve made an attempt to start, I’ve ended up in a pit of despair in one way or another. The heaviness of it all eats up…
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Why I write
I write to survive. Literally and figuratively. Once upon a time, lost in the darkness of depression and anxiety, I really did write to survive. Writing was my lifeline, something to keep me afloat in a world that made absolutely no sense. I wrote down my pain, my anguish, my emptiness. It didn’t make the…
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Thoughts on being loved
Being loved is not just about romantic gestures and flowers and kisses and intimacy and marriage. It’s not necessarily about romance at all. Being loved is about so much more. It’s about feeling safe, having a harbor that is yours, that you can always come back to, no matter what. Love is not about perfection,…
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Let’s live
Every now and then, can we just live, without having to constantly improve and prove ourselves worthy? Sometimes I feel like this world, this society that we have created for ourselves, is set out to drown us all. Smother us with prestige and awards and feelings of never being enough. Of always being able to…
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2021: Was it all that bad?
I think we can all agree that 2021 kind of sucked. Spending a second year stuck in a pandemic is not really something anyone of us had planned for. If this was one of those end of the world movies I feel like we would all be dead by now, except the main character, of…
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Nursing diaries: the cancer ward
My first job after I graduated from nursing school was in an oncology ward, working with people suffering from cancer. It was a roller-coaster of emotions kind of job. Working in the cancer ward gives you a bit of a distorted view of cancer. First of all, it seems like everyone has cancer, because that’s…
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Hi 2022
I don’t make new years resolutions. I do, however, put up goals. For 2020 and 2021 I wanted to get back to reading. And I did. During those two years I read a total of 134 books. This year I want to get back to writing. There was a time when I wrote without care,…
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12 years, zero regrets
I went vegan on November 1, 2008, after being vegetarian for a few years. Little did I know that this day actually is World Vegan Day. An awesome little coincidence (and to be honest the only reason why I remember the exact day I went vegan)! The world has changed so much in these 12…
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The pain in coming home
After being away for a year, learning to live and function in a place so different from my own, coming back home was not that easy. You might think that coming home would be a relief, that being back in a familiar environment, surrounded by people that look like you and share your culture and…
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The Trash Chronicles, part 2: #plasticfreejuly
Is it possible to go plastic free in the Philippines? We decided to try it out by avoiding all single use plastics for 31 days as our contribution to Plastic Free July. The basic concept that we decided on was: if it has plastic packaging, we don’t buy it. Since the beginning of 2018 we’ve…