Snippets

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

Roger Ebert

Anecdotes of Existence: Ang Pangungulila

Nakaupo ako. Nakadungaw sa labas ng bintana. Nangungulila ako sa maraming bagay, pati marahil sa tao.

Bumabalik tanaw ako sa mga naranasan ko sa kalsada, sa unibersidad, sa buhay.

Pawis na mga daliri habang sumasambulat bawat alaala. Dumadaloy patungo sa dulo ng mga daliri papunta sa unti-unting napupunong pahina.

There’s nothing wrong with sex, people.

thechroniclesofrin:

- Having sex every day.
- Saving sex for your wedding night.
- Never having sex.
- Having sex with different people.
- Having sex with one person.
- Having sex with a person of your same gender.
- Loving sex.
- Hating sex.
- Being loud.
- Being quiet.

The only thing wrong with sex?

When it’s not consensual.

Because that’s not sex. That’s rape.

(via toalltheirown)

We’d all have to choose where our loyalties lie at some point. I’ve been avoiding it for too long. Convenience over struggle? Or struggle over convenience? How does one conform to a convenience/s indifferent to the struggles of many? How does one sustain a struggle without succumbing to a facade of refuge?

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

Beyond Cognitive Dissonance

This multi-faceted existence is causing this quasi-death, a stagnation of the totality of interests and hopes and dreams. For conflicts in reason and chosen realities could never be reconciled with the genuine need for being.

- my head at 10:49 pm

Virtual bridges that link people have also widened and made differences more apparent. What is your face? However we choose to hide our inclinations, subtleties we express through social media will unravel our debaucheries and violence. The strongest ones manifest through our selective insensitivity.