"May you have at least one person who will love you when you ain’t so lovable. When you’re anxious and nervous. When you mistreat others. When you no longer crack jokes and have no more stories to tell."
- Shorouk Mostafa Ibrahim
Everything we would like others to do for us, let us do for them instead (cf. Mt 7:12). Do we want to be heard? Let us first listen. Do we need encouragement? Let us give encouragement. Do we want someone to care for us? Let us care for those who are alone and abandoned.
You can’t plan something for just one week. Businesses can’t plan operations based on a per-week timeline. You need to show what’s the LONG TERM plan. Dapat hindi amateur hour.
P.S. let medical experts and scientists lead the way.
I wish I could wear a badge, pin it up my shirt, and across it would be these words: “I’m also figuring things out. Like you, I’m also only still trying.”
Instead of being labeled as “smart”, I want to be recognized as the one who relentlessly tries. At least that would be a more realistic way of putting it.
Sometimes, when people compliment me, I imagine stopping them mid sentence and telling them “Hey I’m just like you. I know little about everything else.
A TALE OF TWO LEADERS
One crowdsources for rubber boats which can be lent to LGUs overwhelmed with calls for rescue.
One says he wants to swim because he has not taken a bath.
The first does not have vast State resources at her disposal.
The second does.
White folks giving me the side-eye questioning my politics when I celebrate this win... Problem with you folks is that you’ve never lived in a country where wins like this actually matter, actually spell out the difference between people living or dying.