The best thing to have happened to me this year is not to have expectations. Somehow, I could discern the trajectory of this year, and I decided to let it unfold in the best way. 2021 made me learn that. I was faced with anxiety, and I asked myself what…

On Christmas Traditions and whatnot. My first Christmas cloth was a fine yellow blouse and a long jean skirt. I spent the days before wearing it admiring it. It was the first time I owned a jeans skirt that would make me feel good. …

You know how we say that love is in the little things. I’ve been thinking of how the response to God’s love should be. What does it mean to love God in the way he wants it? Our romantic relationships often appreciate grand gestures, and although I cannot think of…

The vision was a promise, was it not? that the light in me will not be extinguished. The Largeness would not shrink away. I would yet become visible in this world — Ana, The Book of Longings. I had not spoken to this friend in a very long while, but…

It is usual for the heart to wander. To leave certain moments and emotions and hop into the next one. I’m learning to drag my heart back and lean. I’m learning to just exist at the time and not care for the next minute. …

Lucky for you — you are experiencing me when I’m whole. Healing may still be a thing, but I’ve gotten over insecurities and I’m now living accordingly. …

Twenty-three years of my life looks like a century. But each time, I realise how much growth have had in my life and how much these things are majorly the reason that has brought me to be what I am and what I’m pushing again. Just last week, I wrote…

2021 — the highlights I’m writing this to document the fact despite the highs and lows, I made it through this year, wholeheartedly. I’d be making points of things I experienced. The beginning of a year is actually filled with so much happiness that people eventually forget that it’s just…

eighteen years, a big sister On wednesday, I took my sister for the first time to submit her SIWES letter at a company she had looked up to. I felt emotions overwhelm me as I took my not-so-little sister to apply for her first ever internship position. …