‘mahal kita’ is my favorite phrase because there’s actually nothing for it in english. there is no word that invokes both your presence and my own in the same breath, none with the intimacy of ‘kita’.
it is ‘i love you’, with a piece of my soul, only for you. specifically you.
no one:
college sophomores when they see a freshman: oh my god im so old na time flies so fast im going to miss u all after graduation im such a tita na already i feel so old!!!!!!!11111