OWN LINE

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Aha! Sounds familiar? Katy Perry’s Firework right? Yes it is! I think I’ve felt the same…there are times where I want to fly high, soar high like an eagle and leave everything behind.  Have you ever felt the same? The same feelings when you’ve made a mistake, felt bad, embarrassed, guilty, unhappy with the result, frustrated and all you’ve wanted to do is ride a time machine and then go back to the starting line. As if something never happened and as if you never made a mistake. But that won’t happen. Time machine isn’t real and what’s only real is the fact that all those things happen ed and sometimes things just happens.  I felt a little bit frustrated when things are getting tough and also when things aren’t going my way. Who would be happy when you want to do something but you can’t do it because you can’t? Yung tipong yun lang naman ang gusto mong gawin sa buhay mo pero h

As we are bombarded by news about teenage suicides, I felt uncomfortable again. Just today, I’ve read sad news about a 12-year-old Fil-Am girl who committed suicide after being relentlessly taunted by classmates who called her “slut” and “whore” and mocked her appearance on and offline.  “On May 22, she hanged herself with a belt at her family’s home, in Queens Village, New York. The seventh-grader left a suicide note apologizing to her family and recounting the torture she endured at the hands of bullies at her school.” Via GMA News Online ( http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/316787/pinoyabroad/news/after-pinay-girl-s-suicide-crackdown-on-us-school-bullying-urged ) Gabriel Molina, at the age of 12 committed suicide because of bullying. She's just one of them. Again, I felt so sad and also determined to open this issue to the public and also to the Christian community ‘coz maybe one of our friends, one of our family members or even us ourselves encounter t