turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
you cannot romanticize this shit in a third world country where commuting means having to endure the heat, wait for a long time, and risk ur health and safety in overcrowded public transports
Adulting advice??? Use your weekend to go out, treat yourself and enjoy being alone. Learn how to make yourself enough for you without needing someone by your side. Make yourself your one and only partner that no matter what will always be there for you.
This is what happens when you normalize redtagging students and equating activism to terrorism. God. The d30 regime has done permanent damage to the Filipino people. Can we even recover from this as a country. It's so sad.